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Issue: March ( 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…
Issue: March ( 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…
Issue: March ( 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…
Issue: March ( 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…
Issue: March ( 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…
Issue: March ( 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…
Issue: March ( 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…
Issue: March ( 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.
Issue: February ( 2025 )
TUNING: Even the best tractor can be optimised. Whether it’s about comfort or additional equipment, profi readers share their workshop creations.
Issue: February ( 2025 )
USED MACHINERY: Massey Ferguson launched its six model 6700S tractor range at the tail end of 2016, its successor, the 6S series previewing in 2021 with the first units arriving on farm from 2022. Now…
Issue: February ( 2025 )
PRACTICAL TEST: With its nominal volume of 5,000 litres, the Amazone ZA-TS 5000 is a big lump of a mounted spreader. This makes it perfect for spreading light urea, although heavy fertilisers also fall within…
