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New product and user experience reports keep abreast of spreaders for biosolids – farmyard manure, cattle muck, pig muck and chicken litter – from Abbey, Bergmann, Bunning, Conor, Hi-Spec, K-Two, Marshall, Redrock, Richard Western, Rolland, Samson, Shelbourne, Teagle, Tebbe and West.

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Kent contractor develops driven-axle spreader

Compost, manure, lime, fertiliser, chicken pellets, fibrophos... you name it, Richard Moon’s home-built spreader can apply it – deposited in strips or chucked out in a 10m wide band. Based…

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Farm-built dribble bar improves contractor's slurry accuracy

It wasn’t that long ago that slurry was considered a nuisance rather than a commodity, constantly threatening to overwhelm the lagoons and towers built to contain it. But as on-farm…

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Video: Contractor rates his high-tech slurry injection kit

Digestate and slurry spreading might once have been deemed an inconvenient clear-out exercise, but its potential for cheap crop nutrition and tighter regulations governing its disposal mean it is now…

MACHINERY

Moscha swivel spreader - a cheaper option to dribble bars

Setting up an energy plant along with all the kit to go with it takes some Brexit-style negotiating with the bank, but Edd Mowbray found a Leicestershire farmer who does…

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Grippier lug for Agriflex+ 377XT spreader tyre

Lugs with a ledge is a key visual feature of a new tyre from Alliance designed primarily for self-propelled sprayers, and lime, fertiliser and manure spreaders needing a combination of…

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Lamma 2024: SpreadPoint debuts rear-discharge muckspreader

The first rear-discharge muckspreader from Northern Irish outfit SpreadPoint comes with some neat features to help tempt buyers away from more established brands. These include automatically adjusting bed chains fitted…

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Bunning ups Lowlander output with disc-spreading HBD models

Farmers and contractors wanting a relatively compact manure spreader with the discharge performance of a larger machine have an option in Bunning’s Lowlander HBD disc-spreading series. The Norfolk-based manufacturer builds…

ENVIRONMENT

Daera unveils plan to slash farm emissions

Policymakers in Northern Ireland have announced plans to reduce ammonia outputs by 30% through practical farm measures, backed by financial support. The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Daera)…

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MUCKSPREADERS

Video: Contractor rates his high-tech slurry injection kit

Digestate and slurry spreading might once have been deemed an inconvenient clear-out exercise, but its potential for cheap crop nutrition and tighter regulations governing its disposal mean it is now…

MACHINERY

Moscha swivel spreader - a cheaper option to dribble bars

Setting up an energy plant along with all the kit to go with it takes some Brexit-style negotiating with the bank, but Edd Mowbray found a Leicestershire farmer who does…

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