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MACHINERY MAINTENANCE

Latest technology for putting out harvest machinery fires

It’s hard to imagine given the sogginess of the past 12 months, but there’s always a chance we could be in for a tinder-dry harvest, à la 2022. That year,…

ROAD LEGAL

Combine road safety: Is your header trailer up to scratch?

Farmers taking combines on the road at harvest time should check whether their header trailers are road legal and fit for purpose. And with many large arable outfits now running…

MACHINERY

Top tips to keep your combine running in the wet

August invariably delivers a spell of bad weather, so we’ve put together 20 top tips from the experts on how to ease the flow of damp crops through the combine.…

HARVEST EQUIPMENT

How to get a big square baler ready for the new season

It is important to spend time in the workshop with any piece of harvest kit before setting out to the field – but arguably especially so for baler operators. Lose a window…

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Case studies

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…

WORKSHOP SKILLS

Video: Herts contractor builds self-propelled bale chaser

For years, farmers, contractors and machinery manufacturers have been dreaming up novel ways to make the job of hauling bulky straw bales more efficient. Their endeavours have spawned high-capacity grabs,…

COMBINES

JMT's 33-strong used Claas combine fleet in high demand

Breakdowns and repair bills are unavoidable irritations when running a second-hand combine harvester. But for those who can’t justify shelling out for a new machine and don’t want to go…

HEADERS

Honey Bee swather expands cropping options for Hants grower

Once a popular tool for pre-harvest management, the self-propelled swather has been slowly sidelined in favour of running through with a sprayer to deliver a shot of glyphosate. The attraction…

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Community

WORKSHOP SKILLS

Inventions Comp 2024: Rob Gash's chaff deflector plate

Rob Gash’s chaff deflector is the winner in the simple category of Farmers Weekly's annual Inventions Competition. Nottinghamshire farmer Rob Gash has conjured up a neat add-on that has transformed…

WORKSHOP SKILLS

FW Inventions Comp 2023: Alistair Craig's bale accumulator

Eighteen years ago, Alistair Craig built a three-bale accumulator for his 80x90 baler as an A-level engineering project. The neat design meant it was fixed rigidly to the back of…

MACHINERY

Inventions Competition 2021: Edward Cragg’s grain dryer

Edward Cragg’s grain dryer automation system Complex category third place Electronics postgraduate Edward Cragg set about bringing the family farm’s 43-year-old Wilder Robomatic batch grain dryer into the 21st century…

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Insights

COMBINES

Ultimate guide to buying a combine 2025

Some major updates are included in this year’s combine buyer’s guide, not least New Holland’s all-new CR top-end machines. Existing CR Evolution and CX combines have also gained some improvements…

COMBINES

Plusher cabs and more tech for John Deere combines

Having splashed out on the development of its acre-gobbling twin-rotor X9 combine, John Deere has been making the most of the investment by filtering much of the technology down to…

COMBINES

New Holland CR11 combine takes fight to Deere and Claas

While New Holland’s flagship CR10.90 was busy setting a combining world record in a 2014 Lincolnshire wheat crop, its engineers were already working on a machine that could beat it.…

COMBINES

Ultimate Guide to buying a combine 2024

There are few machine and model updates for this year’s Ultimate Guide to combine harvesters – but there are some subtle changes to the tables themselves to make some of…

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News

COMBINES

Michelin develops huge Cerexbib 2 harvester tyres with CNH

Twenty years after Michelin introduced the Xeobib, heralding something of a revolution in traction tyre performance, the French manufacturer has produced its most heavyweight low ground pressure VF design yet.…

COMBINES

Case IH unveils revamped AF9 and AF10 rotary combines

Case IH has given a foretaste of combines to come with the unveiling of two AF series rotary harvesters at the Farm Progress Show in the United States. The AF9…

COMBINES

Cropscan Ag 4000VT sensor analyses grain protein every 3secs

Cropscan Ag has launched a new combine-mounted grain sensor tuned to deliver more frequent analysis of crops. The 4000VT, which is initially available for the latest New Holland and Case…

COMBINES

Half-a-million harvesters – which Claas combine was best?

Hands up who hasn’t driven, or at least sat in, a Claas combine? Not many, surely, given the German company has now produced 500,000 machines, including 100,000 examples of its…

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Test and reviews

COMBINES

Driver’s view: Claas Trion 750 rated after two seasons' work

The launch of the Trion combines two years ago represented one of the biggest-ever shake-ups of the Claas range. Slotting between the high-output Lexions and late-of-this-parish Tucanos, they promised something…

COMBINES

Brace of John Deere X9 combines gobble 170t of wheat an hour

In its quest to build the highest-output combine harvester on the market, John Deere came up with a machine that was also the most expensive. Commanding a heady starting list…

HEADERS

Driver's view: R&R Mills' 12.2m Claas Convio Flex header

They were once the preserve of big, open grain fields in Australia, Canada, and the United States, but ultra-wide headers have become the new must-have on the latest high-output combines.…

HEADERS

Driver's view: Greenshields Agri's 13.7m MacDon FD2 header

They were once the preserve of big, open grain fields in Australia, Canada, and the United States, but ultra-wide headers have become the new must-have on latest high-output combines. We've…

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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…

COMBINES

Video: Claas launches Trion combine range as Tucanos scrapped

Buyers will no longer have to order a model from Claas’ biggest Lexion range to spec all the popular bells and whistles after the German maker launched its new ultra-flexible…

HARVEST EQUIPMENT

Video: Driver's view - Tom Hawthorne's Big Bale Transtacker

The very thought of loaders and artic flatbed trailers running over a field collecting bales is enough to send shudders down the spine of any controlled traffic farming (CTF) convert.…

COMBINES

Video: Claas launches biggest-ever Lexion combine

Claas has just won the most recent hand of combine manufacturer Top Trumps after it launched its most powerful Lexion machines yet. The headline-grabbing flagship 8900 is the biggest in the…

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