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The latest Polaris Ranger 800 farm buggy has a smaller chassis than on full-size Rangers, which the manufacturer claims makes it easier to manoeuvre, park and store.

We look at some of the farm machinery and equipment featuring at the Cereals 2013 event in June.

Most farmers are accustomed to their machines being fitted with an even numbers of wheels - usually four. But Lincolnshire sugar beet contractors M&J Haulage are the first UK customers to buy a five-wheel Vervaet Hydro Trike XL sugar beet chaser wagon.

Fuel prices have shot through the roof over the past couple of years. Oliver Mark takes a look at what you can do to cut your diesel costs

This year's record-breakingly wet winter and spring has prompted one Cambridgeshire farm to fall back on its own workshop skills to sort out drainage problems in some of its fields

Northern Ireland machinery maker Quad-X may have made its name with equipment to go behind ATVs, but it's tractor-mounted kit where much of the new demand is coming from.

Great Plains is strengthening its market presence in North Somerset and South Wiltshire by appointing H Curtis & Sons, based at Pensford, South of Bristol.

Northern dealer Yorkshire Compact Tractors has started stocking McCormick's smaller X10 range of tractors and is aiming them firmly at the professional farmer.

Great Plains Simba is the latest company to announce changes to its kit line-up ready for next month's Cereals event.

An Exeter firm has designed a new small vertical-axis wind turbine (VAWT) that uses sailing technology to overcome the performance and structural limitations of conventional VAWT designs.

It's been a while since Mercedes-Benz last launched a Unimog, but here's a first look at its latest incarnation.

Farm building design has altered little in recent years, but with half of all livestock buildings - old or new - not fit for purpose, the time is ripe for change. Olivia Cooper reports

Caterpillar has appointed WH Bond & Sons as its agricultural dealer for East Cornwall and West Devon.

This year's Cereals event may be six weeks away, but machinery manufacturers have already started unveiling the new equipment they will be selling this year onwards.

HMRC has been told that it must clarify its policy on rebated fuel usage after a Cumbrian farming estate won a court battle over its use of red diesel for transporting land drainage pipes from a builder's merchant back to the farm.

Two John Deere tractors stolen from a Wiltshire machinery dealer and traced to Poland will be heading home soon after the GPS tracker fitted to one of them...

Where do you keep your ratchet straps when you don't need them to hold cargo tight to the deck? In the pickup? Chuck them loose on the trailer bed and leave them to unravel into a spaghetti-type mess?

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