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Issue: 06/2023 ( 2023 )
DRIVING IMPRESSION: Bütje has returned to the grass seeding market with a revised version of its Slot Master, a machine that uses a knife to cut through the sward and open the soil ready for…
Issue: 06/2023 ( 2023 )
PRACTICAL TEST: It's three years since Krone started offering the VariPack Plus round balers with a variable chamber that employs three belts. How are they going?
Issue: 05/2023 ( 2023 )
REPORT: Since installing an anaerobic digester in 2006, Gask Farm has been using digestate to meet around 80% of its arable cropping nitrogen demands. And for the past five years it has been operating a…
Issue: 05/2023 ( 2023 )
REPORT: Composting manure from cattle sheds is proving a worthwhile exercise for BJC Smalley & Co as the farm looks to improve its soil health and dependence on bought in fertiliser that can be spread…
Issue: 05/2023 ( 2023 )
REPORT: Last year both Oxbo and Vervaet unveiled four-wheel self-propelleds, while this type of machine was always muted to be on the cards for Oxbo, it was something of a surprise from Vervaet who have…
Issue: 05/2023 ( 2023 )
REPORT: While chatting to Vogelsang UK for our practical test of the UniSpread trailing shoe on page 22, the firm mentioned that Cheshire contractor N D Harper is operating both shoe and dribble bar versions.…
Issue: 05/2023 ( 2023 )
WORKSHOP: A rotary lobe pump is a bit of an exotic find in the UK and Ireland, only tending to be used for more specialist applications due to a preference for vacuum. Our German counterparts,…
Issue: 05/2023 ( 2023 )
TUNING TIPS: Cleaning off mucky machines doesn’t have to be a chore, especially if it's easy to do. Profi readers have sent us in some top tips... to bring a little joy to the job.
Issue: 05/2023 ( 2023 )
Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is a well-established system that will be familiar to those using the technology on a forage harvester to monitor crop quality ‘on the fly’. NIRS can be further exploited to include…
Issue: 05/2023 ( 2023 )
REPORT: It sounds almost too good to be true — slurry goes in and a readily available nitrogen fertiliser comes out. N2-Applied promises just that with its slurry treatment system. But there is a catch…
Issue: 05/2023 ( 2023 )
AUCTION: REPORT: Right kit, right crowd, right weather … the K W Wilson & Sons sale of specialist slurry equipment could hardly have gone any better, according to Brown and Co auctioneer, James Walton.
