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Here you can find the archive of profi test reports on a wide range of ploughs and cultivators.
May 26, 2017
Väderstad can supply pretty much everything to rebuild a long-in-the-tooth RexiusTwin to ‘as new’ condition — a job that may not be cheap but could well be viable. The trick is to know exactly what…
December 9, 2016
DRIVING IMPRESSION: Ah, the character-building task of gathering stones, a chore that has kept children gainfully occupied on school holidays since ... well, schools had holidays. But if you have acres to cover, then there…
November 16, 2016
Pretty much new from the ground up, the only familiar components on the Lemken Solitair 25 are its OptiDisc doubledisc coulters. We had a chance to sow some oats with a 6.0m pre-production model.
February 2, 2016
Väderstad concedes the TopDown remains its mass-market cultivator. Those who prefer a tine-dominated machine, however, will be happy to see the arrival of more Opus models for the coming season, including this 5.75m 600
March 17, 2016
DRIVING IMPRESSION: Plough fans visiting Agritechnica will no doubt have spotted the 2500 i-Plough on the Kverneland stand. This is the first in the Norwegian firm’s range of new generation ploughs, and we had a…
September 5, 2015
PRACTICAL TEST: No, not a rabble uprising in consequence of this spring’s UK general election. The Rebell is Köckerling’s first shot at a disc-based cultivation train, introduced at Agritechnica 2013. It’s wide, long, solidly built…
September 16, 2015
Lemken’s hydraulic-folding models are the first to make the move from Zirkon 10 to 12, with the rigid models gaining the features later this year. More than just a change in digits, the new models…
February 13, 2015
At the last Agritechnica, Kverneland introduced its new folding power harrow combination for highcapacity applications. Boasting the firm’s latest CX-II disc coulters in combination with press wheels, we trialled the seeding outfit in the field…
February 7, 2015
The Swift is a large cultivator that works at relatively shallow depths — down to 200mm — using heavy spring tines. In Väderstad’s UK lineup it sits between the lighter-tined NZA tine cultivator and deeper-working…
December 24, 2014
Last season Lemken was showing UK farmers a pre-production example of its big-disc Rubin 12, and we managed to spend time with the 6.0m version to see what all the fuss was about. Key feature…
March 21, 2014
Over the past decade — and more — the Simba Solo has proved a popular tool for many UK arable farmers taking their first steps into min-till, with its large conventional discs mixing soil and…
