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New product and user experience reports keep abreast of spreaders for biosolids – farmyard manure, cattle muck, pig muck and chicken litter – from Abbey, Bergmann, Bunning, Conor, Hi-Spec, K-Two, Marshall, Redrock, Richard Western, Rolland, Samson, Shelbourne, Teagle, Tebbe and West.

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Kent contractor develops driven-axle spreader

Compost, manure, lime, fertiliser, chicken pellets, fibrophos... you name it, Richard Moon’s home-built spreader can apply it – deposited in strips or chucked out in a 10m wide band. Based…

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Farm-built dribble bar improves contractor's slurry accuracy

It wasn’t that long ago that slurry was considered a nuisance rather than a commodity, constantly threatening to overwhelm the lagoons and towers built to contain it. But as on-farm…

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Video: Contractor rates his high-tech slurry injection kit

Digestate and slurry spreading might once have been deemed an inconvenient clear-out exercise, but its potential for cheap crop nutrition and tighter regulations governing its disposal mean it is now…

MACHINERY

Moscha swivel spreader - a cheaper option to dribble bars

Setting up an energy plant along with all the kit to go with it takes some Brexit-style negotiating with the bank, but Edd Mowbray found a Leicestershire farmer who does…

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Howard muckspreader transformed into bespoke glamping pod

Yorkshire joiner Steven Nolan has transformed an old Howard muckspreader into a high-spec glamping pod, adding a trove of luxuries to one of agriculture’s crudest machines. His four-year, £10,000 project…

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Insights

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Muck and slurry field equipment: Where is it made?

In the face of intense competition, not only among themselves but from EU-based manufacturers, UK companies building muckspreaders and slurry handling equipment continue to hold their own with a decent…

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News

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ScotGrass: Strautmann relaunches forgotten muckspreader range

Having revised its UK distribution model by replacing sole importer Opico with a direct-to-dealer approach, Strautmann is planning a fresh tilt at the muck-chucker market. Its spreaders account for one-quarter…

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Bergmann offers new tyre option to minimise spreader width

Wider row-crop tyres with a bigger rubber-to-soil contact patch have been squeezed on to Bergmann low-bed manure spreaders for growers and contractors who need a narrow overall width configuration. Alliance…

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Self-propelled Oxbo spreader mixes muck in with soil

Cultivating to incorporate yard manure, compost and solids digestate as it is spread is a new capability for the biggest self-propelled muck machine from Oxbo, the Dutch manufacturer previously called…

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Bunning muckspreaders get slicker Topcon iD1 display

Topcon's iD1 has been chosen by GT Bunning as the entry-level isobus display for its manure spreaders, replacing the ISOcan unit produced by Topcon subsidiary RDS Technology. The 7in iD1…

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Test and reviews

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On test: RS Agri targets muckspreader market with new Atlas

Feeding and bedding specialist RS Agri has broadened its offering with a range of complementary machines to dispose of soiled livestock litter. Like its ration mixers, the six new vertical…

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Video: Contractor rates his high-tech slurry injection kit

Digestate and slurry spreading might once have been deemed an inconvenient clear-out exercise, but its potential for cheap crop nutrition and tighter regulations governing its disposal mean it is now…

MACHINERY

Moscha swivel spreader - a cheaper option to dribble bars

Setting up an energy plant along with all the kit to go with it takes some Brexit-style negotiating with the bank, but Edd Mowbray found a Leicestershire farmer who does…

See all