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Range Rover pulling a silage trailer…

Range Rover pulling a silage trailer…

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Send us your vintage kit videos

We’re on the look out for videos and pictures of old combines, tractors, balers, wheelbarrows – anything that you’ve got footage of working.

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Robotic grain carting a reality

As hundreds, if not thousands of tractors are ferrying grain from the fields, US company Kinze Manufacturing has trialled a driveless tractor and grain cast for precise and efficient unloading.

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Jogle ‘dozen’ raise £24,000 for charity

The thought of even cycling to the local shop to get my latest Farmers Weekly (or indeed Classic Tractor) fills me with trepidation. But one team of cyclists have pedalled 870 miles all the way from John O-Groats to Land’s End and raised nearly £24,000, and all in just 11 days.

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Munster-bound in a BMW 1 Series…

Now I know everyone’s going to think I’ve wangled a cushty number here… But I promise I booked a VW Fox hire car – not this bling white BMW to hoon up the autobahn in. On checking in at the Hertz desk, I asked to rent a satnav, as I had no idea how to [...]

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Munster-bound in a BMW 1 Series…

Now I know everyone’s going to think I’ve wangled a cushty number here… But I promise I booked a VW Fox hire car – not this bling white BMW to hoon up the autobahn in. On checking in at the Hertz desk, I asked to rent a satnav, as I had no idea how to [...]

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All set for a dusty Grassland and Muck!

So, we’re here at Grassland in our posh stand, and all the kit is raring to go…

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The first AMR (automatic milking rotary) farm in Sweden

Delaval has let press onto one of it’s customers test farm for the first time.Here’s a sneak peak: There are two preparation robots that wash the teats, two that put the the clusters on and one that cleans the teats after the clusters have been removed. The 450 herd being milked is Swedish Reds.

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Hard life for a pickup

Amazing what people will do to get a bit of PR… VW decided to test its new Amarok by – what else? - using it to demolish a 67 m high steel chimney weighing approximately 140 tonnes and standing at nearly the same height as Westminster Abbey. The chimney would normally have been demolished using a 40 [...]

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All shook up in Elvis’s tractor…

It got us thinking of other famous people who’ve had tractors. Winston Churchill? Prince Charles?

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