Machinery

Featuring a new cab with lower noise levels, greater comfort and dramatically improved overhead visibility, JCB’s latest Series III Loadalls promised many improvements. But do these improvements actually make a difference? Simon Henley visits a dairy farm in Somerset to find out.

Poor straw yields due to the difficult establishment conditions this season may make it an expensive and rare commodity this year. Jane Carley speaks to manufacturers about how to get the most from bedding.

While many pickup manufacturers are downsizing their engine capacities, Toyota is bucking the trend, slotting a 2.8-litre, 201hp powerplant under the restyled hood of its new Hilux pickups.

With a large muck and slurry spreading workload, one Leicestershire farmer and contractor has turned to side discharge spreading as a more versatile option. Alex Heath finds out more.

Updating a slurry system to increase capacity and flexibility has offered wide ranging benefits for one Wiltshire dairy farmer. Jane Carley reports.

Helmut Claas, long-time managing director and engineering driving force behind the Claas Group, died on January 5 at the age of 94.

Farmers’ Union of Wales (FUW) has urged industry to take safety seriously after the high number of people killed on farmers in 2020 reveals the ‘harrowing reality’ of how dangerous farming can be.

If you have a D40 Nissan Navara (2005-2015) that has not yet succumbed to the dreaded chassis rot, it could be worth fitting strengthening plates to the area most susceptible, behind the cab. Geoff Ashcroft gets first-hand experience.

Kverneland’s Enduro mounted compact tine cultivator range has been extended with the addition of hydraulic folding models of four, 4.5 and five metre working widths.

A new KRM Bredal tractor mounted fertiliser spreader is to be introduced for the 2021 season, featuring IsoBus control and spread width up to 40 metres.