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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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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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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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RS Agri debuts new vertical beater muckspreader range

Vertical beater muckspreaders are now available from RS Agri, the Hampshire outfit that, until now, had specialised in diet feeders and bale processors. Its Polish-built Atlas range initially encompasses several…

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Richard Western introduces simpler-spec Delilah spreader

Trailer and muckspreader maker Richard Western has trimmed the size and spec of its Delilah vertical beater models to produce slimmer and “more affordable” versions for farms that do not…

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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