Agri Showcase

In the absence of this years AgriScot event, here are a few innovations and award winning news stories. Successful Season for BDC Systems

BDC Systems Ltd reports another successful season for the wellknown BDC SVEGMA grain driers and Skandia elevating and conveying equipment. As we all missed out on Shows and Open Days in 2020, we are actively planning ahead for Harvest 2021. We can arrange along with our dealer network, site visits and assist with design, budgets and proposals, including installation and associated works as required. Our Forage Boxes have undergone a design overhaul. We have increased the size of the XC belt and the discharge outlet to reduce blockages. The canopy is 6” higher and we have added an extra wooden board all round to increase capacity. Faster augers will attack and shred material more easily creating a mixed fuffy feed. Floor runners and chain channels are now thicker metal for greater wearing and longevity. The drawbar is bigger and stronger. Factory ftted road light options are available as extra.

Our GG range of Super Scrubcutters have been in the

Sales of Skandia’s range of elevating and conveying equipment has grown year on year, due to competitive prices, extended warranties, quality products and quick deliveries. With the addition of New Products and accessories across the range, the future looks very promising. As the offcial Skandia UK agent, BDC Systems keeps a vast number of spares for the equipment in stock FarmFit UK is a family-run business with over 15 years of unrivalled experience at the heart of the agricultural industry. The expert team offer a full ftting and installation service should customers require this, and they’ll be with you every step of the way to create a layout which will maximise the effciency of your farm. As well as standard items, FarmFit also offer a made-to-measure service with which they create bespoke products gym and now have the X Factor! GG1700X and GG2000X now have a 12mm top deck and additional RHS struts for greater protection from the chain underneath. New skid design using 120x60x5mm RHS to give greater support in wet conditions and allows easier plating for a total 17mm of skid thickness. 4 cutting height options on the skids and new wire rope slings for greater protection from fre complete the new design.

Further design improvements will be made to our range of Livestock Boxes and watch out for brand new products later in the year. at its warehouse in Wiltshire for immediate delivery.

Ventilation equipment sales have also increased this year, with more new stores looking to install below foor ventilation systems, for ease of loading / unloading and even airfow through the crop. Heavy duty level foor laterals, Corraducts, New Pyramid Terminals ventilators and ventilation fans from 0.25kw to 7.5kw are also available from

Bespoke livestock solutions from FarmFit UK

stock. for customers, understanding that no farm is the same or has the same needs. Recent projects have included the full design, manufacture, and installation of a bespoke handling system, as pictured below. The team have also worked with longterm partners Robinsons to kit out agricultural builds they have worked on with internals. At present, the team are working at the exciting Buffalo Mozzarella Farm to install a full internal layout and they have also worked with the team at Robinsons to kit out numerous dairy, beef and sheep sheds. One of the teams most loved projects as of late has been a calving shed for Roans Dairy which was made completely of bespoke items.

FarnFit has worked on projects of all sizes throughout the U.K. and has excellent motorway links and their own feet to provide the best service possible for all their

Foster forage boxes

customers.

It’s a rat trap…and you’ve been caught!

A new non-toxic, automatically resetting, and humane trap offers an effcient and safe solution to the challenge of controlling rodents at a time when the use of control measures based on toxins is coming under increased scrutiny.

The Goodnature® A24 rat and mouse trap available in the UK from Gallagher is a spring method trap. Rodents are lured into the trap by a highly attractive The product range of fertiliser spreaders from Lemken have been well received in the frst season in the UK and Ireland. With 3 ranges to offer, Spica, Tauri and Polaris come with tank volumes from 900 to 4,000 litres and a broad range of control options, from a basic version through to 100% ISOBUS. The new fertiliser spreaders meet the most stringent requirements regarding precision of application and economy.

Comfortable setting options guarantee that fertiliser is applied precisely and economically comments Lemken UK’s General Manager Paul Creasy. The Lemken fertiliser spreaders are therefore high-quality products bait before being dispatched by a piston powered by compressed CO2.

“Rodents are a persistent nuisance in many locations including on farms, small holdings and equine units, and in feed stores,” comments Gallagher UK Sales Manager Mark Oliver. “Effcient rodent control reduces the risk of the spread of disease to humans and animals, cuts the damage which optimally complement the company’s existing product portfolio in tillage, sowing and crop care.

The entry level model Spica with tank volumes from 900 to 2,100 litres and working widths of up to 24 metres, makes the Spica ideal for smaller growers, The Mid-range Tauri offers a large loading volume of up to 3,000 litres. This implement delivers higher fertilising effcacy through large working widths of up to 36 metres. Equipment such as the weighing system, width section control and ISOBUS preparation make the Tauri 12 not only highly precise but also very comfortable to operate.

Lemken fertiliser spreaders in UK and Ireland

caused to crops and stores and the consequences of structural damage, particularly to wiring.

“EU Biocide Regulations are restricting the use of toxins in pest control and consumers are becoming more aware of the Mastek Ltd, one of Ireland’s leading low-emission slurry spreading machinery manufacturers, are today launching a brand-new product, the Mastek Micro Trailing Shoe.

With the continued success of our Professional Universal Dribble Bar (PUDB) with sales of over 2,000 units to date, Mastek is launching a brand-new 7m & 7.5m Micro Trailing Shoe. This tankermounted trailing shoe is designed to provide the ultimate value to the farmer, with a simpler design that’s easier to operate compared to our Eco Trailing Shoe and other trailing shoes on the market.

Like our Eco Trailing Shoe, each spring is capable of putting environmental impact of toxinbased pest control, meaning there is a need for alternative effcient control methods. The Goodnature® system provides a, proven, reliable and safe way to

Low-emission slurry spreaders from Mastek

reduce rodent problems.” up to 8kg of pressure on the coulter to ensure the slurry is placed under the grass cover and to prevent grass contamination. The machine is light, yet it is a very strong and robust machine.

This machine has a specially designed hyrdaulic system where it lifts and tilts for headland turning, and continues to fold the booms for transport with one single hydraulic service.

On this machine, we are also launching the new SuperCut Micro Macerator. After the renowned success of our awardwinning SuperCut Macerator, the SuperCut Micro Macerator is a variant designed for smaller applicators.

McHale V8 Variable Chamber Baler Range

Over the last ten years, the McHale V6 range has become the machine of choice for making bales from 0.6m – 1.68m. As always, McHale has listened to their customer base and reacted to customer requests from markets such as UK, Australia, America, France and Poland to produce a variable chamber baler with a larger diameter bale.

Over the last 3 years, McHale have worked with these markets in both design and testing of its Established in 1979, Murray Machinery Ltd has been operating from within Aberdeenshire for over 40 years, manufacturing material handling attachments to ft telescopic handlers, forklifts and tractor loaders for the UK agricultural sector.

We have an extensive product range of over 40 machines with numerous variations such as bale handling equipment, muck-grabs, grain buckets, push-off buckrakes, stone forks, snow blades, access platforms and quick hitch adaptors as well as our award-winning gravel road grader.

Our gravel road grader recently won the Silver Award at the Royal Highland Technical Innovation Awards 2020. The purpose of the largest variable chamber baler, the V8, which can produce a bale up to 1.9m in diameter.

For the 2021 season, McHale have expanded their range of variable chamber balers with the introduction of the McHale V8940 non-chopper baler and the McHale V8950 15-knife chopper baler. These high output machines are designed to produce dense bales from 0.6m - 1.9m in diameter. This increase in bale size and improved density means the McHale V8 Murray Gravel Road Grader is to reinstate gravel roads which have fallen into a state of disrepair, to a new and pristine condition.

The grader has various options available including hardox edges, hydraulically operated ripper teeth and a hydraulically operated tilting frame. And now with the new addition of a rear packer roller, the Murray Machinery gravel road grader is now able to carry out four different functions in the same machine. With careful adjustment of the levelling beams the road grader is able to leave the road surface high in the middle or the machine can also put a camber or a slope on the whole width of the roads therefore helping to take care of rain water management.

baler can produce bales with up to 30% more crop in a 1.9m bale then what is achievable in a 1.68m V6 bale.

The new McHale V8 variable chamber baler range is ftted The TOP 842 C centre-swath rake offers high output and the best ground tracking over a working width of 7.7 to 8.4 metres. Pöttinger has upgraded this rake with an innovative with heavy-duty components ensuring long life, high levels of reliability and a machine that is rugged enough to handle the toughest of crops and ground

Technical Innovation Award for Murray Machinery

FLOWTAST from Pottinger

conditions. feature: The new glide bar is available as an option instead of jockey wheels to track the ground close to the tines over the whole surface. FLOWTAST

glides effortlessly over wet and

peaty soils even with deep marks and holes.

Pöttinger presented the innovative glide bar for the frst time at the Agritechnica in Hanover (GER) last year. This spring, the new kit proved it met expectations in the feld. Pöttinger has been focussing on the production of clean forage. During development, they paid special attention to situations Smart Farmer is a mobile and webbased app that allows operators to ensure safe and well machinery, by recording prestart checks digitally, which can be shared across all the workforce on the farm. where a wheeled chassis reaches its limits. This is the case, for example, on wet, peaty soils with deep wheel marks, and when working with whole crop forage in felds where the sward does not provide full surface cover, or even in areas that have been damaged by wild boar. If the wheels sink in, the tines inevitably scrape the ground and the forage becomes

Award Winning Farm Safety App

contaminated.

Develop by British Farming Agri tech Innovator of the year 2020 and Aberdeenshire Farm Manager Marc Skivington, the app aims to provide a simple method to ensure the safe and optimum use of farm machinery, by creating a safe working environment. The tool uses a unique traffc light system to show the state of the machine, with an easy-to-understand indicator of the machines status.

Previous checks are instantly presented to users so they know the current state of the machine, with the app using QR codes for rapid identifcation. This allows the operator to identify which machines are in use today and by who, with any potential issues being fagged up that require attention before the machine can be used. In the event of an incident, the app can provide reports to show routine pre-start checks that were carried out in line with current industry standards. The system offers a free 7 day trial and a yearly subscription only cost £495 + VAT per annum.

SlurryKat launches all new front reel range

Focusing on designing lighter yet stronger machinery, SlurryKat has just launched a series of new front reeler models. This is just the latest new machinery that the innovative company based in Waringstown, Northern Ireland, has launched as it continues to lead the slurry equipment manufacturing sector.

SlurryKat CEO and principle design engineer Garth Cairns said: “These latest reels are a completely all new design. We have manufactured the reels 30 percent lighter than the very successful previous generation of SK front reelers which we designed and introduced in 2008.” There are three models available in the new range with hose capacities of 600m, 800m and 1000m.

SlurryKat has incorporated special high grade steel into the latest reel design to help decrease

the overall weight yet at the same time increase structural strength in the units.

The latest reelers have a new tubular design with innovative coupling sockets that clamp the hose for the start of the rolling up process without the coupling being displaced.

Reelers are open section as standard with bolt-in adjustable sections. Each section can be placed to the desired width and adjusted by sliding it along the reel by simply loosening the two bolts.