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Saturday 4 February 2012
THINKING OF placing an order for a new tractor?
WHETHER A potato grower’s stone and clod separating preference is for flexible finger stars, traditional webs or a combination of the two, there is a machine to suit.
THE WORKHORSE performance of utility all-terrain vehicles and their versatility in being able to carry passengers and materials, is winning over more farmers used to carrying out many of their daily duties with a single-seat quad.
COMFORT AND ease of operation are the main gains for users of the latest Gator ATV from John Deere, which has just launched a considerably enhanced version of this popular vehicle for 2011.
WHILE THE Polaris name is only just becoming part of the ‘A’ list of ATVs sold in the UK, it’s worth noting that, on a worldwide basis, the Canadian manufacturer has produced more than one million of the Sportsman models which form the backbone of the marque’s push into agricultural territory in the UK.
MENTION QUAD bikes to 100 people and, without doubt, Honda will top the league table of ‘names’ followed by – in no particular order – marques like Suzuki, Yamaha and Polaris.
WITH A frustrating stop-go harvest now behind us, growers can now start looking ahead to their combine requirements for harvest 2011.
WHEN YOU are widely regarded as ‘top-of-the-tree’, it’s sometimes easy to sit back and let your reputation do your selling for you – but that’s not the way of it at Claas, where everything is tuned to make the machine live up to the billing.
TWO ADDITIONS to John Deere’s W series straw walker combine line-up have been created largely by installing more powerful engines to extract more performance from the threshing and separation systems, especially in difficult harvesting conditions.
Will Defra fight for Scotland in the CAP reform negotiation?