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Chris Lockwood
September 1, 2024
REPORT: Four years ago, an Essex farm imported a Matrot Xenon front-boom self-propelled sprayer from France. We went along to find out more about this unusual machine, which is believed to be the only example…
July 1, 2024
REPORT: Hertfordshire farmers A T Bone & Sons have converted a pair of ex-military MAN lorries into bespoke specialist farm vehicles. One acts as a high-capacity bowser, while the other is fitted with a crane…
May 29, 2024
Last month a group of enthusiasts from Suffolk held an informal recreation of profi’s 1995 test of high-horsepower tractors. The original test, which was conducted at the DLG test centre near Frankfurt and released as…
February 1, 2024
REPORT: As new machinery prices continue to rise the concept of returning an existing asset to almost as-new condition has never been more appealing. Hertfordshire farmers A & D Mackay Farm Partnership did exactly that,…
December 1, 2023
The need to increase grain storage capacity and upgrade farm facilities for the future prompted Suffolk farming business J.D & R.J Baker Farms to construct an array of new buildings. We look at how the…
September 22, 2023
REPORT: The latest flagship Case IH Axial-Flow 9250 has now been available for five seasons. We visited a Suffolk farm with 15 years of Axial-Flow experience to see how a recently-delivered 9250 has performed during…
August 24, 2023
REPORT: A farm-made weed wiper has been instrumental in enabling the Cook family to reduce the population of herbicide-tolerant wild oats to a manageable level on their Bedfordshire farm.
August 4, 2023
REPORT: The switch from combining crops to an AD plant has seen a lot of changes at Taylor Farms’, with a forager not the only self-propelled being operated by the Oxfordshire-based farming operation, it also…
August 4, 2023
DRIVING IMPRESSION: In 2019 the new Hardi Aeon took its place at the top of the company’s trailed sprayer range. Whilst the stalwart Commander, range flagship for over two decades, continues as before, the high-tech…
July 4, 2023
DRIVING IMPRESSION: Norfolk-based sprayer manufacturer Sands Agricultural Machinery (SAM) introduced its new flagship Infinity range at last year’s Cereals event. One year on we take a closer look at the largest Infinity 6000 model, equipped…
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