Farmers Guardian
Andy Collings Freelance

  • Lamma '10: Rolling along on flinty chalkland

    5 January 2010

    The flat roll, like the plough, has been around for years. But only recently has this seemingly innocuous implement aspired to a degree of sophistication which has widened its job capabilities.

  • Searching out a drill for use in heavy clay

    October 10th 2008

    The 6m version of the Sulky TRW drill was introduced to the UK market last year – a move which put the drill into the large-scale grower league. Andy Collings met up with one of the drill’s first users.

  • Medicinal crop can offer similar returns to conventional wheat

    August 22nd 2008

    White poppies are not something that immediately spring to mind when considering alternative cropping regimes. For a number of growers, the flower is now providing a useful income.

  • High energy, but tough on machinery

    July 4th 2008

    Miscanthus is becoming an increasingly popular choice for growers. However, the machinery used to plant and harvest the crop would appear to still have some way to go.

  • New linkage keeps Powerblade head on

    13 March 2008

    LATEST development from Suffolk-based Shelbourne Reynolds is a rear-mounted hedge cutter with a flail head that can be shifted forwards to a position where the operator can see it more easily.

  • Sprays & Sprayers

    June 1st 2007

    Sprays and Sprayers is now an integral part of Cereals. As ever, this important sector will present visitors with static and working displays of the latest developments in sprayer machinery.

  • Waste disposal: Still a lot to learn

    March 2nd 2007

    The UK’s first Farm Waste Event took place at the Newark showground, Nottinghamshire. With waste disposal now a major issue for the agricultural industry, attendance was high.

  • New-look cab offers greater vision and operator comfort

    January 5th 2007

    Househam would be the first to agree that its range of self-propelled sprayers, although selling well, were starting to look a little dated.

  • Trike strikes right note

    November 17th 2006

    If size is an indication of output, the spreader now being operated by Peter Steward’s contracting business must be among the best. Based at Ringshall, Needham Market, Suffolk, Mr Steward took delivery of his 430hp Holland-built Vervaet Hydro Trike US last February.

  • Growth in potato production drives move to the three-row

    November 10th 2006

    ACCORDING to Standen Engineering’s marketing director, Alex Mathias, the scale of potato growing in the UK has expanded in recent years to the point that on many farms a two-row trailed harvester no longer has sufficient capacity to cope.

  • Still a place for air-assisted spraying

    May 19th 2006

    With the development of new spray nozzles one could argue that the place for air-assisted spraying has passed by. But, for one Nottinghamshire-based farmer, this is clearly not the case.

  • Tailor-made horse power new telehandler has JCBs own engine

    March 17th 2006

    JCB has developed a new range of telehandlers, but this is the first time the company has used its own engine in these machines.

  • Grey tractor imports:

    January 13th 2006

    Grey tractor imports may be cheap on the pocket but they can expensive on the health, says the Health and Safety Executive, which monitors the arrival and operating condition of these tractors.

  • McCormick 115 turns out to be valuable workhorse

    December 30th 2005

    Burgess Show 2006

  • Round baler important to contractor offering field-to-store service to customers on variable quality land

    December 30th 2005

    For one contractor based in the Derbyshire dales the mainstay of his business is round bale silage – his dependence on having a reliable round baler is total.

  • French-built sprayer range aiming to claim slice of UK market

    October 28th 2005

    UK farmers could consider themselves spoilt for choice when it comes to selecting a new crop sprayer – the number of manufacturers and models is comprehensive, to say the least. But now there is another company to consider – Caruelle.

  • Grimme out to keep market lead with new two-row trailed potato harvester

    July 15th 2005

    With sales of potato harvesters expected to be just 90 units in total this year, competition to sell new machines is understandably high.

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