On his idyllic family farm from the 18th century just outside Sjöbo, organic farmer Jörgen Sturesson lives with his partner and their little daughter.
In 2007, Jörgen bought the family farm and now farms 200 ha of arable land orhanically. In the fields grows, among other things, barley, wheat, rapeseed, potatoes, sugar beet and broad bean.
When Jörgen started farming, he fought the weeds in his crops by hand, which was both time-consuming and difficult, the weeds never ran out.
Sometime in 2010, Jörgen read an exciting article in an organic magazine about something named Combcut that was called the thistle cutter. Jörgen decided to contact Jonas Carlsson, the inventor of Combcut. Said and done, after that Jörgen had to test drive the thistle cutter in his crops and the idea of buying a machine grew bigger.
Time passed, development was ongoing and in 2015 the second generation of Combcut. Then Jörgen bought a machine together with his neighbor who had mainly problems with docks. “There are now at least three more Combcuts in the immediate area,” says Jörgen.
Jörgen’s big problem was and is thistles, but he also uses Combcut to fight sowthistle, charlock and docks in sugar beets. He also drives for other farmers who ask for help with their weeds, mainly thistles and docks. “There are a few people who get in touch, and I am happy to help when I have the opportunity. They are usually pleasantly surprised and satisfied, says Jörgen.
Jörgen thinks that the best thing about Combcut is that he doesn’t have to perform manual weed control. By cutting off the thistles, you tire them out so that they decrease in number and that the seed spread decreases. “I wouldn’t want to be without it,” Jörgen concludes.
