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PRACTICAL GRASS DEMONSTRATIONS
With this summer’s weather leading to seemingly unstoppable grass growth across the South East, there was no shortage of interested visitors to Ernest Doe & Son’s grass demonstration day last month. As a stiff breeze helpfully dried out the grass at Plashett Park Farm, Ringmer in East Sussex just in time for the demo machinery to take to the fields, Ernest Doe’s area branch and sales manager David Bush said he was delighted with the success of the event. An estimated 200 farmers and contractors from across Kent, Surrey and Sussex took the opportunity to look at, learn about and see practical demonstrations of, machinery from the Ernest Doe Power stable. The kit in action or on display included Case IH tractors and balers, together with a telehandler and high-tech combine harvester with Harvest Command automation, plus SIP mowers, tedders and rakes and equipment
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from KRM and Marshall trailers. Centre stage was Case IH’s new Puma 240 long wheelbase tractor. As well as boasting a facelifted bonnet, the new model can take a camera to simplify hitching up front-mounted equipment. On this occasion the tractor was attached to a SIP 300 Disc mower with steel conditioning tines, something SIP UK Director Martin Holden said many farmers preferred over the more usual plastic variety. Also on display, and later put through its paces on an adjacent field by
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