Machinery

A classic Fendt 395GT tool carrier is helping keep a lid on depreciation for one arable farm, which uses the 25-year-old tractor with an equally historic Knight Laser sprayer. Geoff Ashcroft reports.

Hampshire-based farmers and agricultural engineers, Samagri started importing Virkar drills from Spain into the UK back in 2018. Simon Henley takes a closer look at the range-topping Virkar Dynamic DC low-disturbance direct drill and talks to a farmer who uses a six-metre version.

Electric vehicles are being touted as the future, but can a battery powered UTV cut it in a tough livestock farming environment? Jane Carley finds out.

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 a range of tasks on a beef unit and a potato grading line.

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. The first in a four part series, Geoff Ashcroft, Simon Henley and Alex Heath speak to users all running three-metre variants from different manufacturers, Lemken being first.

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.

For one Warwickshire farmer a John Deere 9780 CTS combine provides affordable harvesting capacity. As it enters its sixteenth season on the same farm, Simon Henley finds out some of the benefits and the pitfalls of using a 20-year-old combine harvester.

Rubber-tracked tractors might dominate the arable sector, but there is still a useful role for steel-tracked machines. Geoff Ashcroft visits a Suffolk contractor who says it is all about traction.

When Claas added its latest harvesting technology to the straw walker Lexions, a Cambridgeshire farm was keen to try a pre-series model. Jane Carley reports.

A 23-year-old Case IH 2188 Axial Flow provides cost-effective harvesting for one Wiltshire farm, as Geoff Ashcroft found out during a recent visit.