TWO redesigned and
redefined Maxxum ranges from Case IH offer two distinct feature sets
for 2010: the economical Maxxum aimed at livestock farmers market and
the advanced Maxxum Multicontroller delivering more sophisticated
features to mixed farming operations or contractors.
IN ORDER to meet the increasing sophistication of agricultural work
across Europe, Goodyear has announced a significant increase to the
number of sizes in the Goodyear Optitrac DT800 range of narrow row crop
tyres.
THE Güstrower range of East German-built transfer vehicles, more commonly known here as chaser bins, are now available from Ryetec Industrial
Equipment Ltd, of Malton, North Yorkshire.
RYETEC Industrial
Equipment Ltd, of Malton, North Yorkshire, has been appointed UK
importer for the Güstrower range of high-accuracy fertiliser spreaders.
CASE IH showed UK farmers
the new 113hp model that has been introduced
at the top of the company's JXU tractor series at the 2010 Lamma Show.
The tractor sits at the top of a five-model range that starts at 76hp.
THE Haybob twin-rotor
tedder/rake combination that remains the mainstay of many smaller hay
and silage making operations is now available from Kuhn Farm Machinery.
A NEW cab giving drivers better
all-round visibility, improved ventilation and air conditioning and a
more modern instrument layout is being fitted to 2010 editions of the
McCormick MC range of four-cylinder tractors.
HORSTINE Farmery,
part of Chafer Machinery, has launched a new Microband kit for single
rotary bedtillers in response to revised recommendations for nematicide
application.
NEW Holland will use the Lamma Show to reveal the
UK line-up of T6000 Series models for 2010. Changes to be announced
include higher maximum power outputs for Range Command and Power
Command tractors and three new LS models.
THE new 113hp New
Holland
T5070 is now available in the UK with retail prices starting at about
£41,000. The tractor sits at the top of the T5000 series and has a class-leading low
37.6kg/hp power-to-weight ratio that is ideal to perform mixed farming
applications in a more productive way and reduce soil compaction.
NEW Holland is
taking the technological initiative with its revolutionary new approach
to Precision Land Management. Not only is it fitting its IntelliSteer
Integrated Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) guidance to
many more of its machines as factory fit, but CNH - working with its
world-renowned partner Trimble - is now the only tractor manufacturer
able to supply after-market integrated DGPS kits for competitive brands
of tractor.
A NEW four-model
tractor range that combines the best features of two top-selling
Landini models will be unveiled at Lamma 2010 by distributor
AgriArgo UK. The 5-H Series
- the first range from the Italian marque to be identified by numbers
rather than a name in recent years - comprises four models powered by
four-cylinder Perkins engines with outputs from 74hp to 102hp.
JEFF and Oliver
Claydon have been working hard with their team during the past year to
develop a new 6m drill that is lighter by design, with a tine that can
be used in an auto-reset or shear-bolt configuration giving the machine
its name, The Claydon Hybrid.
COUSINS' new Patriot
combination cultivator give up to 6.4m of working width with loosening
legs at 600mm centres, two rows of discs, the company's new patented
810mm diameter Razor Rings and a pair of low-ground-pressure transport
wheels.
FRENCH manufacturer Pichon is now offering a new range of muckspreaders created jointly with
Dangreville. The two family-run companies have decided to combine their
renowned know-how and have revealed their first fully-galvanised
solid-manure spreader.
JOSKIN has clearly
asserted its ambition in the sector of low-tonnage muckspreaders with
the creation of two new ranges with vertical beaters, the Ferti-Cap and
Siroko.
AH ENGINEERING, which has
been manufacturing spreaders and trailers at its Bramford site, in
Suffolk, since 1996 will be exhibiting its latest spreaders at Lamma
2010.
RESPONDING to demand
from the composting sector, Rolland has introduced the new Rollmax
range which has three models available, the Rollmax 6325, 7130 and
8735, with volumes from 20-37 cubic metres.
LEMKEN'S successful
Albatros sprayer range has been updated to gain even more convenience
and operator safety. The range offers farmers a professional and
well-equipped trailed field sprayer with five different tank sizes from
2,200-6,200 litres and boom widths from 15-39m.
THE Kristall is the name
of a new generation of cultivators that Lemken launched at Agritechnica
2009. It combines the proven advantages of a twin-beam cultivator with
those of a cultivator with three or more beams.
It took a recent visit to Cambridgeshire-based Case IH dealer Collings Brothers of Abbotsley, for its annual open day, for me to fully understand some of the changes that have been going on in the wor...
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