June 6, 2026
Sprayers: Applying details
TUNING: This month's on-farm mods are all about spraying. Our profi readers have come up with a variety of ideas to either improve precision or just make the operator’s job that bit easier.
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December 22, 2025
Hadley Farms revisit: Future-proofing the business
REPORT: In the three years since we last caught up with Warwickshire-based Hadley Farms, much has changed. The farm has embraced a 93ha solar scheme, which brings security to farm incomes for the next 30…
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July 6, 2025
On-board fire extinguisher tank
TUNING: On-board fire extinguisher tank
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April 20, 2025
Excavators: Unearthing ideas
TUNING: Not every farm will have an excavator. But, once you have one, you'll find more and more jobs you can do with it, even if that means being extra creative in the farm workshop…
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November 1, 2024
H C Beales – maize logistics: Maize on the move
REPORT: One of the big challenges for those involved in growing and harvesting maize for anaerobic digesters is managing logistics. Having specialist transfer trailers has helped H C Beales reduce road going traffic.
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October 1, 2024
Rhizomes and saplings: Less hard graft
REPORT: If you want to mechanically harvest tree saplings, then you are going to need to embrace technology. Mark Pasveer visits one such farm in the Netherlands.
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October 1, 2024
Amazone Cobra 6000-2TX cultivator: Speedy snake
PRACTICAL TEST: Ultra-shallow cultivators are currently the in-vogue tool for arable farmers to have — full width tilling for weed germination and incorporation without moving too much soil. Cobra is the Amazone solution. Here is…
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August 1, 2024
Service cost comparison: Tractor flexibility is the business
REPORT: Sourcing horsepower is changing, with farmers and contractors looking for more flexibility in an uncertain industry. We hear how one contracting business makes hire work for them.
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June 1, 2024
Yorkshire farmer/contractor, Nigel Thornborrow: Umbrellas and Ostriches
COMMENT: Yorkshire farmer/contractor, Nigel Thornborrow: Umbrellas and Ostriches
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June 1, 2024
Backing British innovation
REPORT: Backing British innovation. Farming businesses are renowned for problem solving and innovative ideas, and some of the leading manufacturers of agricultural machinery and technology have succeeded because they have brought their practical experiences into…
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May 20, 2023
High-tech OSR drill: Added precision for OSR beginnings
REPORT: A subsoiler-based oilseed rape drill isn’t a new idea, but the one-pass implement created by Cambridgeshire farmer and precision agriculture pioneer Will Mumford and agricultural electronics specialist Tom Carnell is packed with an impressive…
