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Going wider with Kuhn Optimer to tackle black-grass

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A 12-metre Optimer is used by Abbotts Ripton Farming Company to help tackle black-grass
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A 12-metre Optimer is used by Abbotts Ripton Farming Company to help tackle black-grass

Kuhn's 12m Optimer XL stubble disc cultivator has provided Abbotts Ripton Farming Company with a tool to tackle black-grass amongst the 2,025 hectares of arable land it farms near Huntingdon. Changing...

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