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Geoff Ashcroft
December 19, 2025
LONG-TERM TEST: When Valtra’s four-model G-series was first introduced as a replacement for the lower horsepower Ns, our featured test farm had high hopes it could surpass a 14,000-hour N123. So, after four years and…
November 25, 2025
REPORT: Industrial hemp now forms a useful component within one Gloucestershire farm’s rotation, favoured for its low cost of production that provides a source of renewable fibres for industrial use. In addition to sequestering carbon,…
October 1, 2025
REPORT: New Holland’s flagship CR11 combine has been chomping through harvest for Dorset grower Peter Snell, having replaced a pair of CR10.90 models. As the end of its first full harvest draws to a close,…
August 4, 2025
REPORT: Faced with extortionate costs to install power to his family’s farm, one Derbyshire farmer and contractor decided to go totally off-grid, adopting roof-mounted solar panels with energy storage using battery packs, in combination with…
August 3, 2025
TECHNICAL: Electrification has found its way into a full-size Fendt tractor, in the guise of the E107S Vario. But how has it been done and what does it offer, over and above its far cheaper…
April 11, 2025
LONG TERM TEST: Operator-focussed changes encouraged our featured test team to invest in Massey Ferguson’s 8S.265 complete with Dyna-7 transmission. After four years and over 4,400 hours, how has it fared?
October 1, 2024
REPORT: Having scaled back his contracting business 12 years ago to take a more relaxed approach to farming, Ceredigion contractor Geraint Jones found himself tooling-up last season after the contractor he was working with passed…
September 1, 2024
REPORT: The last time we caught up with Hoof Trimming’s Steve Jones, he had just spent one million pounds on kit to kick-start a new contracting business. Ten years on, we caught up with the…
August 1, 2024
REPORT: Valtra’s reverse drive function is a feature that ticks many boxes for Herefordshire contractor A Legge & Sons. So much so that three of the Finnish firm’s reverse drive models handle a wide variety…
January 8, 2015
An eventual successor to the proven Vision self-propelled sprayer range, Norfolk-based Sands Agricultural Machinery’s new Horizon model puts operator comfort and convenience at the top of its feature list. Not surprisingly, this means the Horizon…
September 9, 2015
Schaffer 9330T pivot-steer loader Until the 177hp Schaeffer pivot-steer handler, complete with its innovative two-stage boom, breaks cover at this year's Agritechnica show in November, the featured 9330T model remains the ‘flag' of the company's…
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