All articles about Grassland and maize equipment

BALERS AND WRAPPERS

New models promising further increases in bale weights, greater versatility and easier operation feature in this year’s Ultimate Guide to big square balers. The choice of models, features and specifications…

BALERS AND WRAPPERS

With Isobus electronics becoming increasingly popular for its common display format across different types of machines, this year’s Ultimate Guide to round balers highlights the machines on which this added-value…

FORAGE WAGONS

Pick-ups from a pair of fire-ravaged Kuhn balers have been given a new lease of life by Willie Dean of Clockeasy Contracting, as a means of shortening the chop length…

WORKSHOP SKILLS

Having spent his formative years driving HGVs, Niall Turley doesn’t always turn to tractors for powering implements on his family’s dairy farm near Camlough, County Armagh. So much so that…

FORAGERS

Regularly forking out for new forage harvesters is one way of keeping reliability in check, but Neil Jones has found it far more cost effective to build strength in numbers.…

WORKSHOP SKILLS

Ollie Mackintosh’s inter-row seeder has been awarded highly commended in our Inventions Competition. Having built a successful 6m inter-row seeder for sowing grass under maize (featured in the 2016 Farm…

WORKSHOP SKILLS

Entries into grassland category of this year’s Inventions Competition centre on ways to improve the efficiency of resowing, rolling and ridding fields of weeds. Scroll down to see some of…

WORKSHOP SKILLS

Feeding and bedding livestock can be a time-consuming job, but the entries into this year’s Inventions Competition show there are plenty of ways to speed the process up. See also: Tips…

BALERS AND WRAPPERS

Big square baler updates in this year’s Farmers Weekly Ultimate Guide centre around the addition of more technology, making it easier to keep accurate task and crop records, and isobus-linked automation…

BALERS AND WRAPPERS

New round baler models and upgrades promising higher work rates and denser bales have been announced by several manufacturers this autumn, ahead of planned launches at Agritechnica in mid-November. See…

MOWERS

A third model in Pottinger’s Novacat T trailed mower-conditioner range offers greater output for busy hay and silage makers, along with a number of updates shared with its two siblings.…

TEDDERS

Claas has revamped its mid-range tedders to bring them into line with the larger trailed machines. Five models span working widths from 6.6m to 10.8m, with the largest available in…

DIET FEEDERS

Livestock mixer-feeder specialist Trioliet has devised a new weighing system for its Solomix tandem-axle models designed to be more accurate and easier to maintain than previous installations. The snappily titled…

LOADING SHOVELS

JCB’s self-proclaimed “king of the clamp” underwent some subtle surgery last winter, giving it more power, more torque and a nifty new lever-steer system. An early example of this latest…

FORAGERS

Demand for more chopping capacity has driven Claas to join John Deere and Krone in the 1,000hp forage harvester division, as it looks to deliver the throughput expected by mega…

BALERS AND WRAPPERS

The 5300 Evolution occupies the top spot in Claas’s Quadrant line-up, with a hydraulic pre-chamber that helps create dense 120x90 bales. Two such machines are operated by Shropshire native Liam…

WORKSHOP SKILLS

After 53 years, several million small square bales and dozens of farm inventions, Cotswolds contractor and farm-scale engineer Frank Henderson is calling time on his career – and his bespoke…

WORKSHOP SKILLS

Clever feeding and bedding kit is helping livestock farmers shave hours off their daily routine. We've picked out some of the best ones from the many entries to our 2020…

A North Yorkshire farmer is running an Italian-built front-mounted rake combined with a baler on the rear to make his rowing and baling operation a one-pass affair, curbing the reliance…