The Reiff Company is one of the best known agricultural contractors in Europe. This family-run company has grown considerably in the last few years. With a modern vehicle fleet of more than 50 tractors, forage harvesters, combine harvesters, construction vehicles and many specialist machines the Reiff team set themselves new challenges every day. This documentary by the well-known film-makers Tammo and Jörn Gläser accompanies the agricultural contractor throughout an entire season with a large number of customer orders and shows the machines at work from a wealth of different angles. A narrator comments on the essential information about the machines and explains what it takes today to be a successful agricultural contractor. Experience modern agriculture and agricultural engineering from the viewpoint of the Reiff agricultural contracting company.

Running time: 100 minutes

Narration: German, English, French, Spanish, Italian

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Part 1 of the documentary film series, Agriculture in South America is shot in Brazil. On their visit to the harvest in the federal state of Mato Grosso the film-makers, Jörn and Tammo Gläser show you how soya and grain maize are sown and harvested on mega farms. As well as machines from many well-known agricultural machine manufacturers, a large number of Brazilian manufacturers' machines have been filmed. A highlight of this film must assuredly be the sugar cane harvest and the visit to the second largest sugar cane producer in the world. As usual, a narrator explains the interesting details about the farms, the arable land and or course, the agricultural machines. 

Playing time: 100 minutes

Speakers and translation: German, English, French, Italian, Spanish

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Part 2 of the documentary film series, Agriculture in South America is shot in Argentina. The film-makers, Jörn and Tammo Gläser travelled a total of 5,500 kilometres and accompanied farmers and agricultural contractors with their cameras. The rice and maize harvests in various regions are shown. A day's shooting with the largest agricultural contractor in Argentina is included. Local agricultural machines, which can only be found in South America, are often used here. In addition, the film-makers visited cattle breeders, who breed ten thousand head of cattle in the expanses of the pampas of northern Argentina.

Playing time: 95 minutes

Speakers and translation: German, English, French, Italian, Spanish

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Part 3 of the documentary film series, Agriculture in South America is shot in Chile. The Central Valley in Chile lies between the Andes and the Pacific. It is one of the most productive arable regions in the world. This documentary report takes you to the wine and tomato harvests and shows how European agricultural technology is used on the other side of the world. To make this documentary the film-makers, Jörn and Tammo Gläser visited numerous large and small agricultural businesses in different regions of Chile. They also show you dozens of agricultural machines during the potato and maize harvest, often framed by the impressive panorama of the Andes or the spectacular volcanoes.

Playing time: 85 minutes

Speakers and translation: German, English, French, Italian, Spanish

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The first film in this three-part documentary takes you on an exciting trip to Siberia. The filmmakers visited the fields of many agricultural businesses between Novosibirsk and Barnaul during the spring season, when hundreds of hectares of arable land need to be sown in difficult weather conditions. The film shows agricultural machinery from Russian manufacturers as well as modern high-horsepower tractors from John Deere, Case IH and Versatile. Fascinating aerial shots give an impression of the vast Siberian landscape. Find out more about the agriculture and agricultural technology in the world’s largest country.

Running time: 90 minutes

Speakers and translation: German, English, French, Italian, Spanish

Russia has been the world’s largest sugar beet producer for several years. But how is this crop harvested in the country’s fertile chernozemic soil regions, and what agricultural machinery is used during the harvest? This film documents the harvest and logistics at a range of agricultural businesses of various sizes and even includes footage shot inside a sugar factory. The documentary additionally shows the sunflower harvest and a large number of tractors during soil cultivation and winter cereal sowing works. A special highlight are insights into the production of tractors at the famous Kirovets factory in St Petersburg. 

Running time: 90 minutes

Speakers and translation: German, English, French, Italian, Spanish

Agricultural contractors work with modern tractors, combine harvesters and forage harvesters under contract to agricultural businesses. This agricultural engineering DVD introduces five agricultural contractors on three continents.

The film-makers, Jörn and Tammo Gläser have taken their cameras to Australia, Denmark, Northern Ireland and Germany to watch agricultural contractors going about their day-to-day work. The operational areas for the farm machines differ greatly from place to place. This documentary shows exciting shots of machinery in operation harvesting maize and grass and explains how special machinery is used in the sugar cane harvest in Australia or in forestry work in Denmark. Tammo and Jörn Gläser have accompanied both well-known and less well-known agricultural contractors at their work.

Playing time: 90 minutes

Speakers and translation: German, English, French, Italian, Spanish

Throughout their more than 15 years of camera history, the film-makers Jörn and Tammo Gläser have visited many exciting agricultural nations. In this first part of the new story from Canada, the brothers show the grain harvest performed by large farms in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Among others, there are modern large tractors with lots of PS by John Deere, Case IH and Challenger. Some of the highlights of this agriculture technology DVD are North Americas large grain carts, seeders and straw harrows. A narrator leads you through the film.

Running Time: 100 min

Narrator: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish

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In late spring, forage harvest begins in the east of Canada in the provinces of Ontario and Québec. The film-makers Jörn and Tammo Gläser and their cameras accompanied dairy farms and contractors during their work and collected impressions typical for the area. A multitude of modern forage harvesters, tractors, balers and manure technology is seen at work on the fields. A narrator explains interesting details about the agricultural machinery and local agriculture. Arial takes of all machinery in use and of the Canadian landscape round off this unique documentation with its impressive images.

Running Time: 90 min

Narrator: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish

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