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Cheffins’ July vintage and classic auction saw more than 1,300 lots of vintage and classic tractors, machinery, motorcycles, cars and collector’s items go under the hammer at its sale ground in Sutton, near Ely. The sale

A north Yorkshire grower has transitioned into low disturbance, one-pass drilling using a Horsch Sprinter equipped with J.J. Metcalfe’s 12mm coulter conversion. Geoff Ashcroft reports.

Claas has launched the Trion, a new mid-range of combines, replacing most of the Tucano Series and offering a new option for Lexion customers who do not want the step up to its latest machines of the same name.

For one Lincolnshire grower establishing a crop of oilseed rape has become a simpler and cheaper affair, with the use of a combine mounted auto-casting seeder.

Extending its forage wagon line-up, Strautmann, distributed in the UK by Opico, has added a new 02 Series version of its popular Giga Vitesse forage wagon. To find out more, Íæż½ã½ã put the new machine to work.

New Holland has launched an updated version of its T7 HD tractor, with a roomier and more lavish cab, while integrating technology first seen on its larger stablemate, the T8.

Pottinger has developed the Jumbo 7000 forage wagon, suitable for tractors up to 500hp, with all core components being completely redesigned and engineered.

Following a turbulent year for most manufacturer’s Fendt has claimed in a recent press conference, it is in a good position to push forward its plans on a global scale.

In 2019, Claas announced a host of improvements to the Jaguar 970 self-propelled forage harvester, with new cab controls and a new six-cylinder engine, usurping the previous model’s V8. Simon Henley spoke to the firm involved in testing the preproduction model and who is now running two of the new six-pot Jags.

When it comes to Massey Ferguson’s 8S tractor, there has been plenty of hype, plenty of talk and more than enough opinion. To find out more about it, James Rickard gets behind the wheel of two examples. Pictures by Geoff A