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Following its preview in September 2017 and its big UK reveal at the following 2018 Lamma show, we finally get our hands on Fendts new Vario MT tracked tractor for a test drive.

Having recently launched its largest ag-spec loader to date, Bobcat is motivated to prove its telehandlers are designed to be serious farm contenders and not just rebadged construction machines.

As Farmers Guardian joins an exclusive club we look at two manufacturing giants which have also made it to their 175th anniversary.

Famous for its range of high-powered, self-propelled forage harvesters, Krone is on a mission to emphasise that it takes more than just shear brute force and ignorance to chop grass well.

Wiltshire native Ollie Kinch was one of the first UK contractors to purchase a Fendt Katana 85, following the harvesters UK launch in 2015.

Increasing output of slurry application, while keeping farmers and neighbours happy is a finely balanced conundrum.

Contractor Andrew Brown has been an advocate of the McHale Fusion baler-wrapper combination for almost a decade, and has recently extended the baling concept to include film-on-film wrapping.

Having tried a front-mounted swath merger in an effort to improve forage quality, one contractor has made the decision to step up to a larger trailed machine for the 2019 season.

Dorset contractor Craig Frampton harvests 2,200 hectares of grass each year using two Strautmann Giga-Vitesse CFS 3601 forage wagons.

Replacing a muck spreader hire with spreader ownership, one Derbyshire grower has opted for a Polish-built Pronar machine.