Machinery
Primary tractors
9630 & 9620 John Deeres
- Articulated 530hp tractors
- Dual wheels to increase traction
- Used for all primary cultivations (either quivogne tinemaster or 12 furrow Gregoire-Besson plough)
- Full RTK steering
Combines
580+ and 570+ Class Lexion terra tracs
High capacity combines allowing a large acreage of premium wheat to be cut when conditions are optimal therefore maximising potential quality- Full trimble auto guidance
Bateman RB55 5000litre 40m sprayer
- Brand new for 2014 full auto guidance and trimble boom height control
- Capable of achieving work rates of up to 500ha per day with back up from our purpose built mixer tanker
- Auto boom shut off control
Bateman RB55 5000litre mixer tanker
- Purpose built mixer tank
- Rapid filling of the sprayer; 800 litres per minute thus reducing downtime and increases daily workrates.
- Mounted on a high speed chassis
- Premixed chemical can be pumped straight into the sprayer reducing fill up time
2 X 8m drills
Vasterstad Rapid and Horsch Sprinter
- High drill capacity allowing for later drilling which assists blackgrass prevention
Kvernland CTS evo and biodrill
- Used for rape establishment
- Creates a level and consolidated seedbed with rape seed subcast infront of the press rolls
- Front depth wheels allow us to establish rape when conditions are less favourable
Vaderstad rexius rolls and biodrill
- Allows for very accurate measurement and placement of either slug pellets or avadex
- Heavy rolls create good consolidation and good seed to soil contact
2 X 20m transpread slurry applications
- Responsible for applying 45,000 cubic metres of digestate to the crops in spring
- Used in an umbilical system where digestate is pumped straight from storage tanks through a ring main to the applicator
