Grimme Apprentices : Planting the seeds of success

Brooksby Melton College has a rich heritage as a leading provider of agricultural training and education in the East Midlands. Generations of students have benefited there from hands-on experience of every aspect of farming, crop and animal production on its 850 acre site at Brooksby.

Grimme is proud of its technician apprenticeship programme, which it operates in conjunction with Brooksby Melton College. As part of this programme engineering apprentices are actively involved in every aspect of potato crop establishment. This year Grimme supplied all the equipment necessary to plant 9 acres of potatoes. As part of these planting days students were shown how to setup, operate and maintain the planting equipment correctly. Students will get to see how the crop progresses and will also get the opportunity to harvest the crop later in the year.

Grimme believes that giving apprentices learning opportunities like this are not only vital to their growth and success but also a key part of its investment to sustain the future of the business.