Mobile sheep yards have become a vital component of flock management. A relative newcomer to the UK market, Landquip NZ Porta-Yards could be set to interrupt the market with a new sole distributor and a number of standout features. Armed with a 250-head demonstrator unit, Alex Heath put one to the test.

Bedding up cattle has traditionally been a tiresome job using manual methods or a dusty one, fraught with troublesome bales and stubborn pto shafts to connect with a straw blower. However, one dairy farming business has found telehandler-mounted spreaders to be the ideal solution.

With the range of tyre options growing each year, Michelin has been keen to emphasis the advantages high tech, very high flexion tyres can offer to farmers.

Looking like a UTV, but marginally bigger than a quad bike, Honda’s Pioneer 520 on paper combines the benefits of both, but is it as useful as either standalone machine? Alex Heath got behind the wheel to find out.

Offering flexibility and almost go anywhere capability, the power harrow combination drill is still the weapon of choice for many farms when it comes to getting seed in the ground.

As workshop projects go, this high horsepower hybrid tractor that has recently rolled out of a Lithuanian workshop takes some beating, packing a 400hp punch, while emitting zero CO2.

As the buzz around electrification of farm machines marches on, the latest manufacturer to join the fray is JCB with its 525-60E telehandler. To see what the battery powered loader is capable of, Alex Heath put it to work on

Having been in development for a number of years now, the Ineos Grenadier is finally about to hit the streets and fields of the UK as manufacturing gears up for a release in 2022. Alex Heath recently took a ride in a prototype that the fledging vehicle manufacturer says is near complete.

John Deere has announced a fully integrated central tyre inflation system (CTIS) for its 8R Series tractors is now on the options list.

JCB is forging ahead with the development of alternatives to diesel engines with the Staffordshire-based manufacturer believing hydrogen is the future fuel for combustion engines. Alex Heath finds out more.