April 1, 2024
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REPORT: Everyone with feet on the ground in agriculture is well aware of the challenges in finding skilled labour.
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April 1, 2024
REPORT: Everyone with feet on the ground in agriculture is well aware of the challenges in finding skilled labour.
April 1, 2024
TRACTOR TEST: With Field Attack, Meier-Brakenberg has developed a pressure hose for the front linkage. The equipment is more than just a fire extinguisher, though.
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: Viticulture is becoming an increasingly popular enterprise, but the grape harvest has remained largely unmechanised. A trailed harvester is now proving to be an option, both for individual growers and a specialist contractor.
September 22, 2023
REPORT: Earlier this season, profi reporter Steven Vale swapped his office for a six-week stint in Spain driving a Ploeger EPD530 pea and bean harvester.
August 5, 2023
REPORT: There are certain jobs that are the bread and butter tasks for many contracting operations — silage making, slurry spreading, baling — but Tom Voyce wanted something more niche, hence his move into vegetation…
April 30, 2023
REPORT: The industry is responding to an employee shortage crisis by investing in training for the agricultural engineers of the future. But what exactly is involved during and after apprenticeships in the UK? We find…
October 20, 2022
Grapes are becoming an increasingly viable crop within the UK as global warming takes effect and consumer tastes embrace domestically grown wines. Sales of English and Welsh wines have risen by 69% since 2019 —…
September 27, 2022
Lincolnshire grower L&D Flowers is developing solutions to mechanise harvesting and packing of cut flower crops to boost efficiency and profits. Sunflowers have become an increasingly popular cut flower in recent years, but along with…
June 6, 2022
February 13, 2022
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