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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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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)…

MUCKSPREADERS

Pichon Opti-Sensor monitors muck nitrogen content

Farmers could soon have the power to exploit the full potential of muck, with Pichon nearing the completion of a four-year project to develop a means of monitoring the nutritional…

MUCKSPREADERS

Horizontal beater Pro+ HBS joins Agri-Spread range

County Mayo-based Agri-Spread has launched a new rear-discharge muckspreader that features horizontal beaters and spinning discs. The Pro+ HBS series should increase the output and precision of manure, compost and…

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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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