Animal health, machinery costs and simplifying farm operations key to streamlining business

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.

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Animal health, machinery costs and simplifying farm operations key to streamlining business

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...

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