Machinery News

Ascenso Tyres is back at LAMMA for 2024, showcasing its wide range of agricultural tyres with a team of tyre experts on hand. This year the company will also be launching its new VF range with the VDR 900 a VF tractor drive radial tyre.

Manitou Group’s stand will feature existing, new and improved machines, attachments, and extended warranty offers explaining the many benefits of the Manitou and Gehl offers available.

UK designer and installer of automated packing lines, Pace Mechanical Handling, will use LAMMA ‘24 to showcase its new scalable packing line for on-farm packing.

The heavy rains in the middle of October unfortunately caused flooding in many parts of the country – showing up where maintenance of ditches and water courses has been neglected in recent years, with roadside ditches being particularly noticeable.

The Garford range of robotic mechanical weed control products can work in a variety of cropping systems and have become increasingly popular as this type of weed control has become more important to agriculture.

KRM (Keith Rennie Machinery Ltd) will be showing a new model of fertiliser spreader alongside an expanded range of mechanical weeding solutions at the LAMMA show.

Slurry management specialists Tramspread will debut a range of uprated and improved engine driven pump units (EDPU) at LAMMA in January 2024.

Jimmy’s Farm has been given an Iseki TLE3410 HST tractor, as a contribution to the farm’s ‘Big Bear Rescue’ project.

A year on from its launch, the flagship Fendt 728 Vario (Gen7) has come out top in an independent DLG PowerMix test which measured the performance, efficiency and fuel consumption of the 303hp tractor.

Iseki UK & Ireland will exhibit again at LAMMA 2024, showcasing a range of compact tractors, a collecting mower, remote control mower for slopes, an electric UTV and examples from the Muratori implements range.

Accidents involving power take-off (PTO) shafts are among the most common causes of serious injury when operating farm machinery. To help raise awareness of PTO safety, Kramp, the agricultural spare parts supplier, has issued guidance to farmers to minimise the risk of an incident occurring and reduce PTO wear through proper set-up.

Gavin Scarr-Hall, director of health & safety at Peninsula, offers some advice on best practice for slurry management.