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The Maxxum range has undergone a bit of plastic surgery to give it the Case IH family features of its bigger brothers but there are also changes under the skin.
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The latest bird scarer from Martin Lishman emits the sound of a bird in distress and can clear species such as pigeons in an area up to 3.2km away.
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A spot of housekeeping has been applied to the Puma line up with the introduction of the Puma 125 and new styling for the 140 and 155 models bringing them into line with the 165 to 225 tractors.
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Kverneland will be showing its new lightweight plough at LAMMA after a prototype received thumbs up from farmers and contractors at SIMA last year.
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New developments to John Deere sprayers for 2010 include a new tank fill calculator for its 5430i self-propelled as well as 700i and 800i trailed machines which will undergo testing in the UK this season.
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AGCO has confirmed it will be closing the Randers combine plant in Denmark later this year with production shifting to the joint owned Laverda plant in Breganze, Italy.
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With the UK’s dairy and arable sectors still battling with low commodity price returns, some machinery manufacturers are kicking off their 2010 sales year with a degree of trepidation – but not New Holland.
UK business director, Andrew Watson, says that 2009 was ‘a great year’ for the New Holland brand, and he remains optimistic that its performance will be maintained through 2010.
“Over the past year we’ve increased market share and are still gaining momentum.
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The arrival of a New Holland T6000 tractor with a max output of 200hp may have grabbed the Agritechnica headlines, but much less has been made of the increased output potential now offered by the other members of the Basildon-built family.
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Challenger is promising fuel savings of up to 20% with its ElectRoGator concept vehicle, which it is showing at the AgConnect Expo in Florida.
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JCB is donating two of its 3CX backhoes worth US $150,000 to help with the relief effort of the Haiti earthquake which occurred last Tuesday.
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‘Arable-type features on a livestock tractor’ is how New Holland describes its T6000 LS range, a tractor family that is being extended from two models up to five.
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Bridgeway Engineering is offering a wider working aerator for farmers and contractors taking a renewed interest in alleviating grassland compaction.
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Sumo has developed yet another version of the Versadrill with two rows of cultivating discs for farmers wanting to work down ground ahead of the well established Moore coulter set-up.
Dubbed the Versadrill Plus farmers can choose to use both the soil loosening legs and cultivating discs together or use either element independently to suit conditions.
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Case IH will be unveiling the JXU115 at LAMMA alongside the 60km/hr Puma CVX with ABS, upgraded Puma, Maxxum and Maxxum Multicontroller models making their UK debut.
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Farmers and contractors have yet another trailed fertiliser spreader to choose from as Ryetec enters the market with the Gustrower range from Germany.
One of the key differences between this machine and many of its competitors is that it uses a chain and slat moving floor to deliver material to the hydraulically powered spreading discs.
The model on show has a capacity of 8.5m3 but the entirely trailed range goes from 5m3 to 12.5m3.
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Simba Horsch used the LAMMA event to introduce Pronto EX, a new 3m tractor mounted cultivator drill which is reported to have undergone extensive field trials throughout the UK last year.
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Described by Kongskilde as being an alternative to a mulcher or a topper, the new Dal-Bo Maxicut 600 knife cutter is designed to be used as the first stubble treatment following harvested crops such as maize, oilseed rape, sunflowers and vegetables.
The implement has 15 sets of knives spaced 18cm apart on each of its three roller sections.
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The Spread-A-Bale – a machine designed to shred, rather than chop, straw bales before spreading the straw over a yard - has been updated to allow it to cope with the trend towards heavier round and square bales.
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RECO announced at LAMMA that it has bought distributor Strautmann UK, lock stock and barrel, and will be importing the German range of machinery.
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Chantry Dammann is showing a 4,000-litre example of its Land Cruiser trailed sprayer complete with 27m boom and drawbar suspension and carrying a price tag of £28,500.
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Latest tractor mounted seed drill development from Claydon is called the Hybrid – a designation which is the result of the drill being able to be fitted with a tine which uses hydraulic stone protection or a shear-bolt system.
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Having not found a subsoiling tine that did the job he wanted Chris Lane of Tillso decided to develop his own – and the end product is a slatted wing to replace the solid plate.
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On the Kramer Neuson stand LAMMA visitors were being treated to a preview of the firm’s latest telehandler the 1245 ahead of its official launch in Germany in April.
Measuring just 1,560mm wide and standing under 2m tall this little compact is capacble of lifting 1,200kg to 4.5m.
Aimed at the pig, poultry and landscape markets the 31hp comes from a four-cylinder Yanmar engine.
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Billericay Farm Services (BFS) record in nozzle design has not been without its successes – the award winning air bubble jet and the dribble bar for starters.
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For those who need to reseed their grassland – without having to plough – the range of Einböck grassland machinery marketed in the UK by Terrington now includes the Grass-Star with its 2.9m working width.
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Operators of McHale bale wrappers are now able to operate their machines using a radio remote system, rather than by using an infra-red set-up.
The company points out that radio is more positive than infra-red and is not dependent on directional accuracy or suffer from dust problems.
Comprising a small, hand-held remote control, similar to a TV remote, the receiving unit attaches to the side of the bale wrapper with rubber suckers.
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With UK farm machinery insurers applying discount where anti-theft devices are fitted, there is now more of an incentive for owners to invest in such a system.
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Agrimac may not be a name familiar to everyone but some of its products will be after it bought Ruscon last year when it fell into financial difficulty.
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Having just been appointed as the Agrisem importer, Suffolk based MDT Agri was keen to get product under punters noses, but rather than showing a vast of array of machines opted for something a little different.
The Maximulch is a tine and disc machine with a difference reckons MDT managing director, Mark Donsworth.
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There were a number of new direct drills making their debut at LAMMA and Weaving Machinery also took the opportunity to show its new Big Disc coulter on the Caddy drilling system.
Edward Weaving says the disc coulter is a proven piece of technology already working in Australia as well as North and South America.
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Kuhn has announced it is now producing the infamous Haybob, a product it gained when it purchased the baler and drum mower lines from the Kverneland Group which are manufactured at the Geldrop plant in Holland.
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Fails Direct has developed its own range of mounted flails, which the firm's Dave Denton says meets the requirements of what its customers have been requesting.
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Making its UK debut is new firm Tillso which as well as launching a new straw harrow announced it will be supplying Simba Consolidation Systems tools allowing the cultivator and drill manufacturer to focus on its core products.
Chris Lane who owns the Peterborough based company has recently returned from the US where he was farming for the past 15 years as well as selling Simba equipment in North America.
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Challenger Agri may be a new name but Tom Croft of the Hull based firm explains that it is a subsidiary of TJC Engineering which has been producing bespoke implements for farmers for many years and combing this with its own farm experiences has decided to launch a range of products.
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Weaving Machinery has taken its Sub-Till cultivator and exchanged the shear-bolt protected legs for coil-spring auto-reset tines to create the Till-Disc.
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NC Engineering was showing a revised version of its pulse jetter and inventor David Mitchell was pleased to announce that they have managed to get an exemption under the banning of slurry spreading over 4m due to take effect in 2013.
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Simse Attachments may not be a familiar name in its own right but the firm has been supplying attachments for the likes of JCB and Caterpillar and has now decided to deal with farmers and contractors.
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Both Case IH and New Holland are now offering Trimble TrueGuide implement control to work in tandem with their tractor auto-steering packages.
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LAMMA has always been about giving the smaller manufacturers and budding engineers a chance to showcase their wares and Steven Raven is no exception.
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Lely UK has announced it is to kick start forage wagon sales at the beginning of next month in order to get some machines in the field this season.
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John Deere has continued its reign at the top of the UK tractor sales chart with a 30.2% share of the 18,564 units sold during 2008 an advance of 0.9% on 2007.
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