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CROSS SLOT NEWS The New Zealand parent company, Cross Slot IP Ltd, is aware of continuing conjecture in the UK marketplace about the future of Cross Slot®; the only internationally recognized, patented, and proven low soil disturbance notillage technology available worldwide and represented in the UK by Primewest Limited. We are also aware of loose […]

NEWS FROM SLY – written by George Sly. Sly are excited to announce that we are now UK and France Premier dealers for Precision Planting Inc, a subsidiary of Agco Corp. This opens new horizons for us in terms of technology and the ability to offer customers machines and components to significantly enhance the way

New drill & mobile app developments from John Deere John Deere latest drill and mobile app developments are both designed to improve machine efficiency and productivity at lower operating costs. The new ProSeries opener for the 750A All-Till drill will be available from January 2019 and can be retrofitted to existing machines. This replaces the

Timing Is Critical For Effective Stubble Management Timing is everything in farming and 2018 demonstrated just what a huge difference even a few days can make when it comes to creating the ideal conditions for crop establishment, writes Jeff Claydon, who farms in Suffolk and designed the Claydon Opti-Till® System In the last issue of

Optional Extras Enhance Kuhn’s Cultivators KUHN Farm Machinery has launched a variety of optional accessories to enhance its range of PROLANDER, CULTIMER AND OPTIMER cultivators. PROLANDER: new tine, toughened share and roller options The PROLANDER range of vibrating tine stubble cultivators receives a new tine which uses a single bolt to hold a hard-wearing, easy

UNIQUE CULTIVATOR DISC REVOLUTIONISING SEEDBED Employing only a shallow disc cultivator that mixes heavy amounts of trash and crop residue efficiently, has saved cost and timing as well as improved soil condition on an East Riding arable farm without compromising yield. Guy Shelby farms in partnership with his father Chris and brother David at Benningholme

A LIVING SOIL – THE KEY TO A SUSTAINABLE FUTUREMANAGEMENT Simtech Aitchison has become a major player on the UK direct-drilling scene in recent years, producing a variety of machines all based on the Inverted T-Slot principle. They cover the broadest range of direct-drills on the market, encompassing arable, mixed, upland and lowland pasture and

BIOFIL – LIQUID ORGANIC SOIL INOCULANT IS NOW AVAILABLE IN THE UK BioFil is a liquid organic bacterial soil inoculant which has been used by Hungarian farmers for more than 5 years with great results. The products are finally being launched in the UK and will be available from Farm Marketplace from January 2019. Research

DALE DRILLS – MEIR AGRICULTURAL LAMMA 2019 will see the launch of a new low disturbance Soil Conditioner developed by the team at Dale Drills. As a non-drilling piece of equipment, the Dale’s decided to launch the product under a new brand, Meir Agricultural, named after owners Tom and James Dale’s late maternal Grandfather, Thomas

CAN’T AFFORD A CROSS SLOT, THINK AGAIN… The Cross Slot from New Zealand has for many become the pinnacle of drills, with unique coulter, ADF technology and heavy build quality that was second to none. This unrivalled quality came at a price, built in and imported from New Zealand any Cross Slot Drill that arrived