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Farmers Weekly brings you the news from Sima, the Paris International Agribusiness Show. We report on the latest farm machinery featured at the event for arable and livestock farmers, including tractors, ploughs and tillage kit, sprayers and grassland equipment.

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CULTIVATORS

Agrowin cultivator does four jobs in one

Experiments with strip-tilling ahead of maize crops has taken a new twist, with French maker Agrowin deciding to pair talon-like looseners with rotating hammers to beat the soil into a…

SLURRY TANKERS

Samson PGII Genesis tanker gets section control

Section control is now available on Samson’s monster PGII tankers when specced in Genesis guise. It can be used with any trailing shoe or dribble bar applicator, provided it is…

TECHNOLOGY

John Deere debuts spot spraying kit

The spot-spraying market is hotting up, with John Deere the latest company to put its system into field-scale European trials – five years on from its acquisition of US specialist…

TELEHANDLERS

Tech start-up ManuRob debuts autonomous handler

In the pipeline for a little over three years, tech start-up ManuRob unveiled its Loadix autonomous handler for the first time after recently beginning farm trials.   Able to move…

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MACHINERY

Video: Latest kit launches and highlights from Sima 2019

If you didn't manage to nip over the English Channel and catch a glimpse of the shiny kit on offer at the biennial Sima show in Paris, then check out…

MACHINERY

Video: All the best bits from Sima 2017

This week’s Sima show attracted machinery nerds from far and wide to peruse everything from tiny drones to mammoth beet harvesters. With more than 1,700 exhibitors from 40 countries spread…

Sima 2015: Now see the video

With 1,300 stands and 250,000 visitors, this week's Sima show in Paris was the place to be for anyone into their farm machinery. Reporters James Andrews and Oliver Mark pick…

MACHINERY

VIDEO: Sima 2013 - the best bits

Farmers Weekly's machinery team tirelessly pound the halls of Paris's Sima 2013 show, to bring you the best farm kit on display. Superlatives abound - from the swankiest, to the…

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