Know How / Grassland and maize

MACHINERY

Tucked away in a corner of the yard and inherited from a previous generation, silage clamps are often at the bottom of the priority list. But given how important forage…

BALERS AND WRAPPERS

If you are in the market for a used combination round baler/wrapper, then it’s a fairly safe bet that McHale’s Fusion will be the only one on your shopping list. When…

MOWERS

Claas's claim a couple of weeks ago that it made the widest mounted mower on the market prompted a couple of other machinery companies to challenge its title. We took…

MACHINERY

Scotgrass 2016 Where – SRUC Crichton Royal Farm, Glencaple Road, Dumfries DG1 4AS When – 18 May, 8am to 3pm How much? – Tickets are charged per car – it’s…

Anyone with a large chunk of grass to knock down will probably be hankering after a set of triple mowers. Second-hand triple mower costs Dealer: Southern Harvesters, Petworth Claas 8400C…

FARM MAINTENANCE

An farmer in Ireland has designed and built a potentially revolutionary machine that makes collecting hard-to-handle, tricky-to-stack round silage bales a doddle.  Chasing square bales at great speeds with high…

GRASSLAND AND MAIZE

Based in the heart of dairy country in North Devon, Battledown Contractors concentrates specifically on servicing the needs of the region’s many livestock enterprises. The company is run by the…

GRASSLAND AND MAIZE

Over the last couple of decades Middlewich contractor L&J Bennion has gradually honed its grassland reseeding and rejuvenating techniques to suit its customers’ requirements. Now the team’s 1,000ha workload is split between full…

The Bomford company’s pioneering approach to power farming dates back 150 years or more to the early days of steam cultivation when Benjamin Bomford bought a set of cable ploughing…

GRASSLAND AND MAIZE

Since Agco snapped up the forage products arm of family owned Lely in 2017, it wasted no time in rebranding the kit to appear in Fendt and Massey Ferguson colours,…

GRASSLAND AND MAIZE

High-horsepower foragers were making pretty light work of the showground’s grass crop. New Holland, John Deere and Fendt all had their choppers at work, as did Krone with its new…

GRASSLAND AND MAIZE

The process of mowing, raking and tedding was in focus at this year's Grassland event, with all the big names showing their take on the silage system. Italian firm Abimac…

FORAGERS

There has been plenty of chat in the industry of late about the benefits of long-chop maize on cow health, milk yield and quality. The theory is the bulkier forage…

GRASSLAND AND MAIZE

When Kent contractor David Burden went in search of a reliable summer job to supplement his no-till drilling business, big baling seemed the obvious answer. Armed with a £50,000 budget,…

GRASSLAND AND MAIZE

Norfolk-based dealer WM Agri has taken on the Holaras franchise, with an eye on selling its silage clamp equipment across the UK. The MES Leveller comes with two hydraulic independent…

MACHINERY

This year's Grassland and Muck was choc full of of farm machinery from Pistenbully's three piste-bashers to Pottinger's mammoth 11.2 meter-wide mounted mower. Around 13,500 visitors were out in the sun…