Building 3,500-4,000 machines each year, Peter Thomas Keaveney travelled to Soumagne in Belgium to meet the Joskin family and visit some of the Joskin factories.
SUBSCRIBER ONLYHiSpec Engineering will give visitors a taster of its slurry tanker ranges, ejector style trailers and updated diet feeders at the FTMTA Show.
Centre stage on the Fleming Agri stand will be its new 7.5 trailing shoe mounted on the firm’s own ST2300 vacuum tanker, alongside a range of implements and attachments.
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SlurryKat dealer Bailey Machinery Sales (BMS) will attend next week's FTMTA Farm Machinery Show where it will debut SlurryKat’s Farmshoe hybrid trailing shoe solution and more.
One major attraction on the Herron Engineering stand will be its H2 BRL, which is a multipurpose dumper and low-loader, with a 12t load capacity that features a unique ‘tail door within a tail door’.
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Peter Thomas Keaveney travelled to Vogelsang in Germany to check out the latest development in slurry separation, stabilisation and new application systems.
From 1 January 2025, farmers stocked between 100kg organic N/ha and 129kg N/ha will be banned from using splash plates and will be legally required to spread slurry using LESS.
In line with the strong LESS equipment offering at the Ploughing Championships, Fleming Agri presented its new in 7.5m and 9m trailing shoe systems, now designed and built in house.
Farmers in Tipperary have said that LESS equipment is not practical or safe for small-scale drystock farms on high ground.
Farmers stocked between 100kg and 130kg organic nitrogen/ha should not have to face the "unnecessary" cost burden of LESS, the IFA's livetsock chair said.