A farmer driving the Fendt IDEAL in the field

Your IDEAL Story:
A focus on customer experiences

What is your IDEAL story? We asked Fendt IDEAL customers around the world this question to find out what motivates them and how satisfied they are with their Fendt combine harvester.

Join us on a journey around the globe – discover inspiring stories and what our customers have to say about the Fendt IDEAL.

The Project
“Your IDEAL Story”

Development of the Fendt IDEAL combine harvester began back in 2011. And since then, it’s been one of AGCO's largest investments. From the very beginning, we have attached great importance to taking into account the needs and requirements of our customers. That's why we were particularly curious about their experiences with the Fendt IDEAL. We set off to find out what their personal IDEAL stories are. Our journey has taken us to customers all over the world, whom we have accompanied during the harvest. This gave us the opportunity to obtain their feedback directly from the field.

In addition, three of the customers accepted our invitation to the Swiss Future Farm, where we initiated an open dialogue among them and our AGCO IDEAL experts. This allowed us to find out in more detail how satisfied they are with their Fendt IDEAL combine harvesters.

Stories from around the world

Fendt customers tell us their IDEAL story.

We have made contact with Fendt IDEAL customers from around the world. No matter where we were – in every country, we were able to listen intently to what moves our customers and how satisfied they are with their combine harvesters.

The feedback speaks for itself: The Fendt IDEAL exceeds all expectations. Farmers and contractors worldwide confirm its outstanding performance. Get a first impression of the IDEAL Stories in the video.

Your IDEAL Story

Customer voices from all over the world

Immerse yourself in the exciting world of "Your IDEAL Story" and gain insight into diverse regions through numerous videos. Click "start" and choose a country to start your journey. Have fun! There is much to be discovered.

EUROPE

NORTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

AUSTRALIA

SOUTH AFRICA

Europe

Ivan Tosi standing in front of his Fendt IDEAL combine

Tosi Franco e Alberto S.n.c.

Ivan Tosi, Italy

"IDEAL, compared to the other harvesters on the farm, is on a completely different level in terms of performance, reliability, and handling."

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SC Merpano SRL

Alin Lazăr, Romania

“When calculating fuel consumption, we have a 30-35% higher performance with used diesel fuel than before.”

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Gjessinggaard Gods

Mark Jacobsen, Dänemark

"The motivation for buying the IDEAL 8 combine was the superior quality of the harvested product"

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H. Barker & sons

Fred Barker, United Kingdom

"We have various models of Fendt tractors and sprayers in use and expect a certain quality. The IDEAL definitely fits in. I am particularly impressed with how clean the combine harvester keeps itself."

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Sarl SCHMITT et Fils

Sébastien Schmitt, France

"I would highly recommend the IDEAL to my customers. The 25 percent reduction in fuel consumption with the IDEAL compared to our previous combine harvester was great for us."

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Contractors Debbeler GmbH & Co KG

Andreas Debbeler, Germany

"The excellent grain and straw quality convinced us to buy an IDEAL."

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North America

Clark Farm / Justison Farms

Clark & Justison, USA

"The IDEAL has set the benchmark for the harvester world. There is no shifting, theres no fade, very limble, it doesn’t matter how fast you harvest- you will always have the same clean grain tank sample and that’s better than anything that I ever ran."

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Burka Farms

Darrin und Riley Burka, Canada

"It seems like you can get more done in less time which means a lot to a guy"

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Hamill Farms

John Hamill, Canada

"We want to treat that barley as gentle as possible when we are harvesting it so that we don’t hurt the germination on it at all. So the IDEAL's rotor system is really designed well to handle that and not to hurt the barley at all."

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South America

Fazenda Recanto

Lucio Basso, Brazil

"Improvements and developments are being made so all that desire that the farmer had what he imagined of a high-performance product, could be delivered. That was missing for a continental country like ours."

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Fazenda Marjany

Marcello Freitas, Brazil

"Ten days into the harvest I make 20-30 percent more hectares with it."

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Australia

Chillakerup Farms

Ben Beech

"The machine itself is hard to beat in terms of productivity and losses. Normally we work with about 0.5 per cent in losses, which is a huge saving."

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MB Agricultural

Mark Baker

"I grew up with AGCO combine harvesters. The IDEAL has very good residue management and a spreading system that covers the entire 50-foot cut ."

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South Africa

Tharina Boerdery

Tannie Tharina

"The reason why I fell in love with the Fendt IDEAL was the double rotor that it’s got, so the wastage at the back is less."

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Expert interviews at eye level

Farmer Fred Barker from the UK standing in front of a Fendt IDEAL

Farmer Andreas Debbeler standing in front of a Fendt IDEAL

Farmer Sébastien Schmitt standing in front of a Fendt IDEAL

IDEAL experts in a dialogue with Fred Barker, Andreas Debbeler & Sébastien Schmitt

To gain an even better understanding of our customers' needs, we invited three of the farmers and contractors from the “Your IDEAL Story” project to the Swiss Future Farm in Switzerland. Together with five IDEAL experts from AGCO – from the areas of development, product marketing, product management, service & spare parts and quality management, the customers talked about what is important to them, when buying a new combine harvester, for example, and which developments they particularly appreciate about the Fendt IDEAL.

You can find out more in the individual videos.

3 customers.
5 experts.

In the dialogue at the Swiss Future Farm.

What makes the Fendt IDEAL special

This is what makes the Fendt IDEAL so impressive

Reliable cutter bars

Efficient helix processor

Innovative technology

Cabin with top comfort

Harvest more!

Comparison test of 05/08/2020 in association with the DLG TestService team.

With the help of the DLG, we pitted the Fendt IDEAL 9T against a competitor putting them both through their paces under the same conditions and criteria. Here were two mighty machines competing against each other, both equal in terms of their threshing capacity. The measurements focused on output, loss, broken grain and straw quality. The Fendt IDEAL 9T delivered not only good but excellent results in all these aspects. More output with lower losses, significantly less broken grain and far better straw quality.

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