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Here you can find the archive of profi test reports on a wide range of feeders and bedders.
September 1, 2025
LIVESTOCK: With the increasing cost of sawdust, and some cubicle bedding products no longer available, more dairy farmers are taking another look at green bedding. Richard Threlfell has over a decade of experience of using…
August 30, 2025
DRIVING IMPRESSION: When Swiss importers and Strautmann engineers sit down and have a coffee together at EuroTier, new ideas emerge. The EVerti-Feed is one of them.
August 3, 2025
LIVESTOCK: Brookside Farming took delivery of their self-propelled feeder in April 2025. It has been delivering daily rations for 750 cows since, bringing increased efficiency and consistency with the aid of AI driven ration prescription.
July 6, 2025
USED MACHINERY: Although developments have been made to the original concept, any Spread-a-Bale model is designed to do exactly what the name suggests; spread straw primarily as a bedding material. Employing rotors to tease straw…
May 9, 2025
DRIVING IMPRESSION: Peecon surprised visitors to last year’s EuroTier, where it had a new type of self-propelled feeder on show. A conventional tractor had been kitted out with a self-loading boom for the diet feeder…
April 11, 2025
DRIVING IMPRESSION: For its high-capacity trailed mixers, Siloking now has a continuously variable transmission, which means stalling is now a thing of the past. We explain more.
April 20, 2025
LIVESTOCK: Lichfield natives S P Robinson & Son had been squeezed on all sides by construction, on what was their home farm in Staffordshire. So, when a 350ha farm became available in neighbouring Shropshire they…
March 14, 2025
Towards the end of last year, Lely presented an array of new products. These included the larger capacity feed pushing Juno Max, the slurry vacuuming Collector C2, which has the option of a flushing system…
January 17, 2025
LIVESTOCK: Almost unnoticed by the world, a small manufacturer in Denmark is quietly working away building trailed tub-grinders for straw, grain, wood and silage. The rotor crushes any type of biomass - the tractor has…
January 17, 2025
PRACTICAL TEST: Looking to fight its way into the already busy diet feeder market is Euromilk, a relative newcomer from Poland. We've been operating the single-auger 12m3 feeder to see what it is like to…
December 10, 2024
LIVESTOCK: Having shown a prototype version of its Aura autonomous diet feeder nearly four years ago, Kuhn has announced that it is now due to enter production. Keep reading to find out about the experiences…
