Following Bedfordia Group’s decision to enter a contract farming partnership with Velcourt, it was time to sell off the wide range of well maintained machinery. Brown and Co was tasked with the dispersal. 

This was the newer of two umbilical pumping set-ups. Powered by a six-cylinder FPT engine, this Tramspread pumping rig sold for £36,000.
This 2009 Tramspread 24m hydraulic folding dribble bar sold for £11,800. A newer 2011 version of the same bit of kit made £11,000.
Ready to tackle another season of vegetation-munching work, this 2.5m wide 2019 Müthing MU-LSVA250-31 2.5m flail mower, complete with hydraulic offset and head angling, left the sale field for £3,700.
The 2019 front-/rear-mounted Müthing 3.0m flail mower, with hydraulic side shift and bearing a bit of stone rash, brought in a reasonable £3,200.
At £6,000, this 2022 Vogelsang Unispread ECL 9.0m trailing shoe tanker-mounted applicator was a bit of a bargain, especially since it had never actually been used.
Holding its money, this very tidy 6.2m wide, 2015 Spearhead MultiCut 620R topped out at £15,800.
The two 2017 Claas Lexion 770TT combine harvesters sold for £126,000 and £138,000. Both have a Vario 1230 header, 30in tracks and 620/70 R30 back tyres. Drum hours were 1,810 and 1,834 respectively.
£27,000 secured the considerable services of this robustly built 2021 Hankins Maidwell Moler Tri-mole three-leg mole plough.
The 2018 Kverneland LO-85-300 Variomat seven furrow (6+1) plough with hydraulic vari-width, on-land and in-furrow headstock and solid boards achieved £17,500.
Good demand saw this 2017 Väderstad TopDown 400 reach £33,500 with plenty of life still left in the two rows of discs.
Väderstad Carriers are always a good seller; this 2012 CR925 with a 2013 Biodrill 360 sold for £36,000. The discs were near new.
This 2020 Köckerling Allrounder 750P cultivator with wheel track eradicators, levelling paddles, three rows of tines, press and following harrow sold for £27,200.
Another big bit of kit was this 2015 Rexius Twin RST 1030 with raptor tines and levelling board. It pressed its way through to £29,500.
Having covered 1,044ha, this 2020 Kverneland TS 6.0m wide tine drill with bout markers, track eradicators and ISObus hit £21,000.
£118,000 was the end result for this 2022 Horsch Avatar 12.25SD. Complete with Minidrill, the seeder had covered 1,554ha.
Still commanding good money were the two Ken Wootton 15t trailers with sprung drawbar, air brakes, hydraulic rollover sheet, manual tailgate and grain chute on chunky 560/45R22.5 floatation tyres. This 1994 one sold for £10,500, the 1993 version for £11,500.
There were two hard-worked 1994 Bunning Lowlander rear-discharge muck spreaders. This one made £7,900, the other £6,000.
£99,000 was the winning bid for the 2019 Horsch Leeb PT280 sprayer. This 36m boom machine, matched with an 8,000-litre tank, was booted with Michelin 650/85 R38s and had clocked 5,304 hours.
The ‘run around’ 2019 John Deere 5075E with H240 front loader and pallet tines had just 863 hours. On Alliance 320/85 R24 front and 420/85 R30 rears, it eventually went for an impressive £34,300.
7R prices seem to be firming by the month if the £181,500 paid for this three-year-old 7R350 Gen 2 is anything to go by. With 1,682 hours on the clock, it had a big spec, including a PTG pressure control system for the Michelin VF650/60 R34 front and 900/60 R42 rears wheels.
There was a trio of 2019 JCB Fastrac 4220s with hours ranging from 3,877 to 4,617 and prices spanning £61,800 to £72,000 for the pictured tractor on Michelin VF600/70 R30 tyres.

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