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Jane Carley
February 14, 2025
REPORT: Danish potato grower Henning Thybo has a keen interest in developing specialist equipment for his own farm and has joined forces with manufacturers to find machinery solutions for the crop against a background of…
February 14, 2025
TRACTOR TEST: There's an ongoing debate — is a continuously variable transmission the right ‘box for heavy-lugging draft work? To throw some cats among the argumentative pigeons, we've compared the drawbar power measurements of 15…
February 14, 2025
REPORT: Back in August 2024, MB trac owners staged their first major get together in Dohren, a small town to the south of Hamburg. The event proved a huge success, with a wide range of…
February 14, 2025
REPORT: Contractor J P Plowright & Son runs the only nine-row Vervaet self-propelled sugar beet harvester in the UK. The business also has a six-row machine and two self-propelled chasers, so you can see there…
February 14, 2025
DRIVING IMPRESSION: It's not often that a slightly different tack is taken to cultivations, but the Acticut does just that, with horizontally powered discs used to cut below the surface for a shallow tilth. We…
February 14, 2025
DRIVING IMPRESSION: Italian rotary cultivator maker Valentini is throwing its hat into the strip-till ring with a machine aimed at the maize establishment market. We had a go with the near 6.0m wide version, enough…
February 14, 2025
REPORT: 160hp for around 55,000 Deutchmark, or a little over £22,000. Back in 1994, the Zetor ZTS 16245 had one very compelling argument — its price. Thirty years on, we catch up with one these…
February 14, 2025
REPORT: The German Agricultural Museum (DLM, Deutsch Landwirtschaftsmuseum) in Stuttgart Hohenheim is operated by the Hohenheim University of Agriculture. We visit this treasure trove.
January 17, 2025
TUNING: Even the best tractor can be optimised. Whether it’s about comfort or additional equipment, profi readers share their workshop creations.
January 17, 2025
DRIVING IMPRESSION: Although only 20% of the latest Ropa RK22 has changed, those design mods allow even more adjustment options on the two-row potato harvester. The hydraulics and software architecture have benefited from big advances,…
January 17, 2025
REPORT: EasyTraktor is a tractor hire company that carries out the majority of its business online. Is this something hire firms in the UK and Ireland could also do? We visited the Hamburg-based hirer to…
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