Case Studies

June is normally the time of year when ‘potential’ agricultural engineering apprentices are vying for the best jobs on offer in the industry. School leavers aged between 15 and 16 with a minimum of four C passes are likely to be considered for the top opp

Producing clean forage by reviewing existing grass husbandry techniques, maintaining a clean storage environment, ensuring maintained harvesting machinery, set-up to give the best in-field performance provides the potential for higher milk yields, with lo

Having already got a well established farm supplies business, just twenty five years ago, Tony and Sue Cullimore decided on diversifying their farming enterprise by opening their farming facilities to local schools and the general public.

There are plenty of pick-up trucks on the market, but not many have the towing specification of the ISUZU!” That’s the opinion of Brian Morgan, Director of Ludlow-based Morspread Ltd.

Managing 300 milkers and their followers on a 180 acre milking platform is no mean feat, but for the farming enterprise of DT Evans & Son, Troedyraur Blongest Farm, just outside Newcastle Emlyn, it’s all taken in their stride.

One of the major deciders for one of Herefordshire’s premier golf clubs in changing to John Deere professional green-keeping equipment was the quality of back-up service from the dealer.

Wyn Jones and his son Eurig, farm around 1000 acres at Trefach, Blaenffos, Boncath. There’s approximately 600 acres of grass, plus 200 acres down to spring barley and spring wheat, and the rest made up of forage rape, swedes and kale on a medium loam soil

With more than its fair share of Britain’s ancient Oak and Sweet Chestnut trees, some in excess of 600 years old, Stoneleigh Deer Park Golf Club, just outside Coventry, is arguably one of the prettiest and most historically adorned golf courses in the cou

With forage harvesting being a large part of the business for agricultural contractors, E B Marfell & Son, Monkland, near Leominster, moving up to the very latest technology on the market, has proven to be the right decision.

Pembrokeshire, South Wales is renowned for its milk production, many large dairy enterprises with 500 - 600 milking cows and with it, mountains of slurry and farmyard manure. But for Richard Merriman Contractors, it’s all in a day’s work. The company prov

Precision farming technologies, coupled with auto steering capabilities on tractors, combines sprayers and forage harvesters have well proven the benefits when it comes to accuracy of planting, recorded input applications and harvesting analysis. But this

Mr Gasson, farms just over 1000 acres on varying soil types, ranging from blue lias clay, heavy clay and ironstone.

Agricultural contractor Aled Jones, operates a general purpose contracting service within a 15 mile radius of Llanygynin, St Clears, Carmarthenshire

Fair do’s, but the fleet of pink articulated lorries that transcend the roads of the UK and Europe are more than something of an eye-catcher.

Pembrokeshire, South Wales is renowned for its milk production, many large dairy enterprises with 500 - 600 milking cows and with it, mountains of slurry and farmyard manure.