Four-cylinder ‘pocket rockets’ are now prevalent on many farms, however, the first to break the 200hp mark was the 6718S from Massey Ferguson. Alex Heath speaks to a Staffordshire farmer who is making use of the high power to weight ratio tractor.
The Korean-built Kioti compact tractor may be a more familiar sight on the golf course, but for a Bedfordshire dairy farm, it has proved more than up to the task of scraping. Jane Carley reports.
Juggling the demands of a large-scale farm business, growing a brand and motherhood are challenges Annabel Makin-Jones has taken in her stride. Hannah Park finds out how she is making sure this year’s harvest goes without a h
Diversification allowed Ian Steele the opportunity to return to the family farm in North Shropshire, where a range of diversification projects have boosted the smaller scale farming operation. Amy Stinton reports.
The sheer power of today’s computers is allowing umpteen years of NMR milk records to be used as predictors of not only pregnancy but disease as well, including TB. Peter Hollinshead talks to NMR managing director Andy Warne about this breakthrough.
Prompted by a desire to swap knowledge with other like-minded farmers amid an ever-changing dairy marketplace, Tim and Louise Downes have recently joined the network of AHDB strategic dairy farms across Great Britain. Hannah
Representing more than just a facelift, we get under the skin of John Deere’s latest generation 7R tractor series. We find out more with a test drive.
Planning a large scale pea crop across more than 100 farms in Norfolk and Suffolk is a complicated task. Andy Beach, general manager of growers’ co-operative Anglian Pea Growers spoke to Clemmie Gleeson on how he makes it wor