1950 - 1980: the agricultural mechanization 

During this period, the first dietfeeders were invented: horizontal in the USA and the vertical in Israel.  The first forage crops and the silo storages arrived in Europe. 

• Gustave Lucas proposes the first silage unloader - distributor to breeders : The Désil-vit. 

• Shortly afterwards, to comply with the growing requirement for a mixing machine, Gustave LUCAS invented the first French mixer : The Lucadette. 

1980 - 2000 : Ideas have matured, and now has come the time to innovate 

Round bales and wrapped bales arrive in Europe. In France the first multifunction silage unloaders (silage unloader, strawbedder, distributing machine) are made. Mixerwagons are developped with the arrival of dietfeeders (with shoes or paddles) as well as the first of the self-propelled silage unloaders. 

At the same time the sound competition with Mr Audureau, attracted the breeding trade, and encouraged the two companies to continue to propose even more innovating equipments.s..

• 1980 : The Lucas G company developes the Polipaille wich received the SIMA 1980 gold award.

• 1984 : The first silage unloader - strawbedder - distributing machine comes out off the Lucas G workshop and the Alouette gets the golden award of the SIMA 

• 1990 : A small revolution in distribution machinery, Lucas G invents the very first Universal chute for feeding and strawbedding. It allows to distribute all types of forage right and left. It is the Sitelle which will receive a gold award in the 1990 SIMA. 

•  1994 : With the arrival of round bales, Lucas G identifies the need to offer breeders the posibility to distribute all types of forage. The introduction of the Castor range offers the possibility to distribute long fibres from wrapped bales.  After several improvements, this range of machines obtained the gold medal in the 1999 SIMA.  Within the LUCAS G factory, this period is marked by the beginning of modular machine manufacturing and by the introduction of machine robots.

2000 - 2008 : Improvements continue 

Optimization tools arrive on the market, (SATNAV and satelite guidance for cultures). The link up between agricultural machinery and new technologies becomes a reality, and with it, the breeders enter into a phase of reasoned production with precise and measurables figures.  

• 2001 : Lucas G redesign the paddle mixerwagon concept, so as to give breeders the possibility to use their feed input differently. The chopping space is separate from the mixing space. With the Qualimix+^PRO it's now possible to cut the fibre without damaging the corn. The mixerwagon won the 2001 SIMA gold medal. 

To protect the financial health of its customers,  Lucas G finalizes the first motorized mixerwagon. An engine is added to the Qualimix which thus permits just one person, sitting in a telescopic handler, to feed his whole herd in record time. Breeders thus get the benefits of a self-propelled machine without having the investment. The Qualimix Autonomous is born.

•  2005 : Outright success for the self-propelled silage unloading and feeding machines.