Peter Hill
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- Sep 25, 2026
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Massey Ferguson ramps up combine spec packages - Farmers Weekly (opens the original)
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Selected optional equipment is being included as standard on a limited run of Massey Ferguson Next Edition combines. All told, MF says Activa S and Beta Next Edition buyers get £5,000 worth of additional kit, while larger growers purchasing an Ideal benefit to the tune of £13,000. The quid pro quo for MF’s largesse is that orders must be placed by 31 October. See also: Driver’s view: Ed Layton’s John Deere T5 600 Hillmaster The packages applying to Activa S and Beta straw walker machines and Ide
CNH adopts Canadian-made Bourgault air seeders - Farmers Weekly (opens the original)
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Production of wide-working air seeders at CNH’s factory in Saskatchewan, Canada, is being wound down in favour of a distribution agreement with Bourgault Industries, part of the Linamar group. CNH’s new partner is based at Saint Brieux, 100 miles to the north-east, where Bourgault has long produced tine- and disc-coulter air drills and seed carts. Former sister company Bourgault Tillage Tools, manufacturing cultivator points and tine coulters in the same town, is not involved. See also: Retrofit
Mechanical weeder market turns sour for Lemken - Farmers Weekly (opens the original)
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An expected boom in mechanical weeder sales as a result of growing anti-herbicide sentiment has failed to materialise, according to Lemken, so a multimillion-pound factory purpose-built for its weeder range is being sold. The company – along with Amazone, Kverneland Group and others – snapped up precision hoe manufacturers from the mid-2000s, anticipating a substantial swing to mechanical weed control; Lemken bought Dutch business Steketee in 2018. A period of strong sales suggested it was a goo
Mid-range Agco Ideal combines get performance upgrades - Farmers Weekly (opens the original)
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An increase in separation area for the mid-range models in Agco’s Ideal combine range builds on the cleaning performance upgrades introduced on all four variants for this year’s harvest. It comes from simply replacing all blanking plates with finger grates in the housing for the two Helix threshing and separation rotors. This configuration, which has always been standard on the range-topping Ideal 10 combine, exclusive to Fendt, gives the Fendt and Massey Ferguson iterations of the 549hp Ideal 8
Valtra factory keeps producing first-gen Vario transmission - Farmers Weekly (opens the original)
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Agco’s Valtra factory in Finland is supplementing production of the first-generation ML-series Vario transmission for installation in some of its own tractors. Capacity at Fendt’s Marktoberdorf facility in southern Germany is increasingly taken up with the TA-series VarioDrive units now installed in all its tractors from the 134-174hp 500 Vario Gen4 upwards to the 400-550hp 1000 Vario Gen4 models. See also: Ultimate guide to buying a tractor 2026 Earlier this year, just 12 months after productio
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