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Jessica Armitage has used her experience gained from working overseas to set up her own direct supply business, which runs alongside her family’s dairy farm. Jonathan Wheeler reports.

The Shelbourne Reynolds 600-Series hedge-cutter models are designed for use on mid-sized tractors. Simon Henley visits a contractor in Leicestershire who purchased a 5.6m 656 model last year.

Looking for greater output and efficiency, while maintaining low ground pressure characteristics, one Suffolk contractor has added a five-wheel Ploeger self-propelled spreader to its machinery fleet. Geoff Ashcroft reports

Selling home-produced meat of the highest quality direct to the consumer has always been at the heart of Tori and Ben Stanley’s farming business, and continues to be the case as their enterprise goes from strength to strength

Lancashire dairy farmer Andrew Wilkinson uses an Abbey VF1250 diet feeder purchased earlier this year from Rickerby at Carnforth. This is what he had to say about its performance to date. Simon Henley reports.