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Hello! Thanks for letting me be a part of this community! I am able to buy a Fransgard mower from a neigbour that just quit. This is a Fransgard K-240 mower that has only been used for a season. He says he will sell it to me for half the price of a new one (new one in Norway is £7300 and he’s...

Just had a claas jaguar 970 delivered does anyone know if the right hand arm rest / controls can be raised and if so how? I have attached a picture and circled what I would like to raise. Many thanks

Mate , just got a call on the phone from the UK which left me perplexed, so given the so few UK based organisations that I'm evenly remotely connected to gave arise to the fact that maybe it was a cold call from the TFF call centre if such a thing exists. The politely spoken person sounded like...

A farm open day in Shropshire next month will offer arable farmers a low cost entry to finishing beef cattle with free on-call advisory support and minimum guaranteed payment terms at the outset. One of the organisers is Buitelaar Group, the “bed and breakfast” beef finishing operator, where...

I could have A right moan on about how hard things are here currently but that won’t change anything and there are plenty of farmers of what ever guise having just or much worse time of it. so my question is this. We are constantly told we need to build resilience into our businesses.to you...

AMAZONE Ltd will again take the opportunity at Cereals 2024 to showcase kit that reflects the shifting trends in crop establishment. These shifting trends are also supported by government help through the SFI and grants available through the Farming Equipment Technology Fund. The Condor 12001-C...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF The UK is seeing fewer and fewer ‘perfect’ spray days, so being ready to utilise any weather window that comes along is increasingly important. CPM speaks to a farm manager whose investment in a new self-propelled sprayer with pulse width...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF As increasingly technical sprayers become mainstream in the market, the future of widespread spot spraying looks set. CPM pinpoints some of the latest technologically advanced products to hit the market for a flavour of what’s around the...

Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland Tractors powered by internal combustion have been around for for just over 120 years now, and for half of that time, they have been built at Basildon, Essex in a factory built by Ford, but now owned and operated by Case New Holland. This is a strong...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF It’s taken three decades from inception to UK industry adoption, but Closed Transfer Systems are here to stay. CPM explores how this technology came to fruition and the benefits it brings to operators, the environment and the industry...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF With an exceptionally slow and difficult start to the season for farmers across the country, CPM seeks advice from the experts on how to address some of the biggest spraying challenges on the horizon and how to make every spray as...

As it says really, Ive been trying to get through to the RPA for nearly 3 weeks now with some technical queries, but the line always chruns out the old Covid bull of "exeptional times" and high call volumes, then puts you through to the call back thing. Ive been asking for a call back for 3...

We got a new N5-series Valtra and figured out it does not have the emergency switch off plug that Valtras have had for fifty years. On older Valtras the PTO spool valve drive current flows through the plug at the rear of the tractor. I guess this feature has been discontinued because of CAN bus...

An article in Sunday Times about the development of Edinburgh Airport. I was interested to read passenger numbers pre covid had a peak of 14'000'000 and 2023 was the first year to beat that at 14'700'000. The really interesting bit was after developments passenger numbers are going to be...

Written by Agriland Team from Agriland The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) is advising farmers to follow the guidance of the Health and Safety Executive Northern Ireland (HSENI) when it comes to the use of quad bikes. The UFU stated that quad bikes are “extremely useful” on farms for tasks, but...

Looking for a workshop manual for our Claas 1200 big baler.

Does anyone know whether there is a limit to how much de-linked BPS reference data a business can acquire? I'm getting conflicting messages from different land agent sources. One says that any given business is limited to a reference data total of the amount they claimed (in nominal ££, before...

Cant get through on the helpline and its upto 30 days for a reply to an email, but has anybody found a way around this ......... Application submitted and offer sent out but this was rejected as I wanted to alter it. I've created a new application and gone through the motions however come up...

With the way things are and no improvement on the horizon ,how long will it be before a huge dealer shuts up shop.they mostly got very large expensive premises and massive stocks of parts and machines but they will be suffering the same as the smaller dealers.seems to be a weekly occurrence of...

Hi all, I'm having abit of an issue with my Stiga ride on mower (2098H). It has been kept outside and not used in 5 months due to the weather here in the UK. I have kept the battery on trickle charge and it has full tank of fuel I tried starting it couple of days ago but have not had any...