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Lamma 2025: CF Moto goes big on cab spec with U10 Pro UTV

A juicier interior spec is the highlight of CF Moto’s latest U10 Pro UTV, with most of the manual levers and winders ousted in favour of electronic controls. These cover…

WORKSHOP SKILLS

FW Inventions Comp opens for entries with £2.5k prize pot

It’s time for another season of Farmers Weekly’s long-running Farm Inventions Competition. With a back catalogue containing thousands of ingenious ideas, there’s nowhere better to read about workshop builds that have saved…

DIET FEEDERS

Lamma 2025: Auto concentrate feeding with Hanskamp Mobile

The solar-powered FeedStation Mobile from Dutch firm Hanskamp will automatically serve a preset concentrate ration to individual dairy and beef cows and calves in the field, giving stock farmers more…

TRACTORS

Up horn, down corn in UK tractor market

Areas of the country where cereal growing and dairying dominate experienced a bigger slump in new tractor registrations than in livestock grazing areas in 2024, reflecting the different conditions in…

TELEHANDLERS

Lamma 2025: MX develops GDT conveyor bucket for grass silage

French firm MX has launched a feeding bucket specifically designed to handle long-chop clamped grass. While its existing auger-based setup works effectively for maize-based rations, getting a thorough mix and…

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Lamma 2025: Tafe 75hp tractor targets livestock market

Tafe has a new UK importer for its revamped range of five 15-series tractors. Comvex takes on the mantle from long-serving Tractors UK, which had been bringing in the Indian…

CULTIVATORS

Lamma 2025: NRH returns with new low-disturbance subsoiler

Yorkshire outfit NRH Engineering, maker of presses, packers, Cambridge rolls and piggyback drill cultivators, returned to Lamma with a new low-disturbance subsoiler. The Tremor is a slimmed-down alternative to the…

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Lamma 2025: Sumo toolbar offers adaptable lifting and seeding

Buyers in the market for a close-coupled toolbar have a new model to consider – the Sumo Yet-To-Be-Named. Displaying the tool for the first time at this year’s Lamma show,…

ATVS AND UTVS

Lamma 2025: US-made Volcon electric UTV breaks cover

Thetford-based Electric Wheels has taken on the import job for Volcon UTVs, as the US firm targets European expansion. Prices for the battery-powered buggies start at about £23,000, for which…

ROLLS

Lamma 2025: Terra Tech BBR folding rolls offer even pressure

Thanks to a new weight transfer system, Terra Tech’s BBR three-section folding ballast rolls achieve even pressure across entire working width. The setup works thanks to pressurised accumulators which shift…

TELEHANDLERS

Lamma 2025: Extra lift capacity for Manitou MLT 742-140

The introduction of a tougher boom on its ag-spec telehandlers has allowed Manitou to bump up lifting capacity throughout the range. New model numbers have been introduced as a result,…

TELEHANDLERS

Lamma 2025: Kubota launches pivot-steer telescopic loader

Kubota’s collaboration with Dutch manufacturer Tobroco Giant has yielded the firm’s first telescopic pivot-steer loader. The RT305T-2 joins an existing line-up of wheel loaders and a compact rigid machine, helping…

ATVS AND UTVS

Lamma 2025: Kawasaki returns to smaller ATV market with 450

After years of having just one hulking 750cc ATV in its line-up, Kawasaki has re-entered the popular mid-sized sector. Its new contender is the Brute Force 450, which has a…

TRAILERS

Lamma 2025: Stewart ups trailer spec with new Legend range

Aberdeenshire-based trailer maker Stewart has replaced its popular GX load luggers with a new range that incorporates several nifty safety features. Pictured is the 18t Legend – the firm’s most…

CULTIVATORS

Lamma 2025: Grange launches Front Mounted Disc Bar

The latest cultivator to be incorporated into Grange Machinery’s rapidly growing tillage range is the pithly titled Front Mounted Disc Bar. As the name suggests, the new toolbar is designed…

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What's in Your Shed? visits a used kit-loving Danish farmer

A multicoloured cocktail of used equipment resides in the sheds of Danish arable farmer Morten Mikkelsen. Farm facts Morten Mikkelsen, Lindved, Denmark Farm size 370ha Cropping Wheat, barley, oats, beans,…

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What's in Your Shed? visits a Wiltshire dairy farm

The Wiltshire-based Leighfield family are in this week’s What’s in Your Shed hot seat. Oliver Mark poses the questions to Paul, Julie, Richard and Edward. See also: On test - Massey…

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What's in Your Shed? visits Barnes Contracting

Devon-based Barnes Contracting buys predominantly used or ex-demo kit and then hangs on to it... unless the purchase turns out to be a pup. Andrew Faulkner is given a yard…

WHATS IN YOUR SHED

What's in Your Shed? Worcestershire farmer reveals all

An eclectic mix of modern and classic kit is proving a reliable ally for Worcestershire farmer and contractor Rob Collins. See also: Fendt tractors: Common problems and how to fix them…

WHATS IN YOUR SHED

What's in Your Shed? Somerset farmers spill the beans

Working to a tight budget, Somerset farmers Martin and Michael Waldock aim to buy their kit well … and sell it even better. Andrew Faulkner gets the measure of the…

WHATS IN YOUR SHED

What's in Your Shed? visits Massey-mad YouTuber Tom Lamb

Farmer, digger fleet owner and budding YouTuber Tom Lamb gives us the lowdown on his business. See also: Owner rates Massey Ferguson 8S.265 tractor with Dyna E-Power transmission Farm facts A…

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ATVS AND UTVS

On test: Sharper handling for Polaris Sportsman X2

Contrary to their workaday Japanese cousins, US-built ATVs are big, brash and offer bountiful horsepower. And the latest Sportsman 570 from Polaris is no exception. Just like its forebear, it…

4X4S

First impressions: Ineos Grenadier Commercial 4x4

The issue of inheritance might be the most talked about nasty in Rachel Reeves’ Autumn Budget, but another gremlin lurking in the small print promises to clump double-cab pickup buyers…

TELEHANDLERS

Driver's View: Chris Brettell's Merlo TF42.7 CS

The TF42.7 is the flagship in Merlo’s mid-sized telehandler range and comes in a handful of configurations to suit different applications. Most variants are fitted with the same two-speed hydrostatic…

TELEHANDLERS

Driver's View: Harry Whiteman's Claas Scorpion 741 Gen 2

As the name suggests, the Scorpion 741 Generation 2 is the second iteration of Claas’ Liebherr-built 7m/4t telehandler. The standout upgrade from the original is a power hike from 136hp…

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Driver's View: Chris Brettell's Merlo TF42.7 CS

The TF42.7 is the flagship in Merlo’s mid-sized telehandler range and comes in a handful of configurations to suit different applications. Most variants are fitted with the same two-speed hydrostatic…

TELEHANDLERS

Driver's View: Harry Whiteman's Claas Scorpion 741 Gen 2

As the name suggests, the Scorpion 741 Generation 2 is the second iteration of Claas’ Liebherr-built 7m/4t telehandler. The standout upgrade from the original is a power hike from 136hp…

TELEHANDLERS

Driver's view: Adam Symonds' Bobcat TL38.70 HF

Bobcat might be the first name in skid-steers, but it’s yet to find the same success on the telehandler scene. That’s gradually changing, with the Czech-based manufacturer focused on growing…

TELEHANDLERS

Driver's view: Steve Miller's Manitou MLT 741-130 PS+

There’s no shortage of choice as far as Manitou’s telehandler range is concerned, with most shapes, sizes and specs accounted for in a line-up that runs from 35hp and 1.25t/4.3m…

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CONTRACTOR COMMENT

Contractor Comment: Cyber attack causes grain dryer havoc

Of all the potential catastrophes that might befall a busy farm in the heat of harvest, perhaps the most unlikely – and, in some ways, the most eerily alarming –…

CONTRACTOR COMMENT

Contractor Comment: Average yields and high costs bite

Elliot Stevens, who runs Okehampton-based contracting firm Cropmech, had an uninspiring harvest, with wet weather hampering workflow. Elliot, who works along with his father, Mark, says: “Overall, the cereal harvest…

CONTRACTOR COMMENT

Contractor Comment: Arson attack ends baling campaign

Borders contractor Daniel Freeland-Cook faced a battle with the elements this summer, with both fire and water conspiring to scupper his straw baling campaign. Relentless rain meant crop moisture remained…

CONTRACTOR COMMENT

'Laughable' tractor prices force expensive switch to hiring

Eye-watering tractor price inflation threw Derek and Linda Keeble’s purchasing regime into disarray this season, forcing them to re-examine costs and bolster their fleet with costly hire machines.   For years,…

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HARVEST

Video: Classic machinery brings in the spring barley harvest

A fleet of British-built classic machinery dating back to the early 1970s was bringing in the spring barley harvest at a farm on the Hampshire/Wiltshire border this week. Two Ransome…

WEED MANAGEMENT

Video: Leicester farm trials weed seed unit on Fendt combine

Europe’s first Redekop seed control unit (SCU) fitted to a Fendt Ideal 10T combine, aimed at controlling weed seeds, is being put to the test this harvest in Leicestershire at…

FORAGE WAGONS

Video: Lely revolutionises zero grazing with autonomous Exos

Dutch firm Lely has put the finishing touches to its self-propelled grass harvester and feeder, which is set to go on sale in the Netherlands next year. The battery powered…

WHATS IN YOUR SHED

WIYS: Contractor ditches new kit for retro fleet

Mark Bowran, 2003 winner of Farmers Weekly’s Tractor Driver of the Year competition, opens the doors of his MBC Services contracting business. Machinery editor, Oliver Mark asks the questions and…

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