Machinery News

Team Sprayers will showcase a selection of trailed and mounted agricultural sprayer models at Cereals 2024.

V-Tuf will showcase its tufJET IBC cleaner available in petrol, diesel and hydraulic powered options at this year’s Cereals. It’s a pressure washer mounted on a 1,000-litre tank so you can literally clean anywhere, the company says.

On a dry April day in Haddiscoe, Norfolk, the team at Ben Burgess, together with a contingent from Väderstad, staged a working demonstration day of Väderstad drills and tillage machinery. Machinery editor Neale Byart was there.

A woman was injured by a vintage tractor after her four-year-old son accidentally started the machine at a farming charity event.

The Fentech Agri drill range has grown significantly in 2023/2024 and the company is keen to show the new options to customers at this year’s Cereals event. The major developments come mainly in the form of ‘options’.

Devon and Cornwall Police are asking the public to help choose a name for its newest tractor. 

Agricultural engineer Keith Short currently heads up the team at Wessex Engineering Inspection Services, ensuring plant, agricultural and construction machinery are HSE compliant. He offers Farmers Guide readers the following advice on how to ensure telehandlers and loaders are safe and HSE compliant.

With the British Pig and Poultry Fair underway at the Birmingham NEC, John Lack, business development manager at Hydor has discussed how the business can help farmers navigate changing ventilation requirements to maintain healthy animals.

A vintage Allis Chalmers tractor restored by a 13-year-old schoolgirl from Northallerton will be one of the highlights of Tractor Fest this summer.

Grain Sentry is Perry of Oakley’s automatic drier moisture monitoring system, which controls the drier temperature, fan speed and discharge speed automatically. The accurate control of those parameters results in significant operational savings.

Over 500 CNH Industrial workers – comprising nearly the entire shop floor of the Basildon factory which produces New Holland tractors – are striking during May over a pay dispute.

Shepton Mallet company, Read Agriservices Ltd has taken on the Alstrong franchise for Somerset, Wiltshire and Dorset.