“Obviously we like the machines, but it is also very much down to their reliability and the dealer’s back-up service from CLAAS EASTERN at Sinderby."
Bought during the 2022 silage season, initially to boost mowing capacity, such is the output from a set of non-conditioner CLAAS DISCO 8500 Contour triple mowers that the rig now handles the lion’s share of contractor RM Simpson’s 800 ha mowing workload.
With the massive rises in compound fertiliser cost over the past year, the use of digestate has not only proved a massive financial benefit to Banks Farming, saving them in the region of £200,000, but also proved an invaluable aid for overall soil fertility and health.
Until last season the team at RH Dove Farms were using a 2014 LEXION 620 to clear their 260 ha of arable crops. Although it was more than capable of handling the area, it
was felt that increasingly unpredictable weather patterns at harvest justified extra capacity.
Two combines are used to get JSR Farms in East Yorkshire crops safely in the shed to feed their pig business – a 2018 LEXION 780 with 12.3m VARIO and a brand new LEXION 8800 equipped with a 12.3m CONVIO cutterbar.
“For hard-pull fieldwork the overlaps in the gearbox mean it uses a much greater proportion of mechanical drive – rather than hydrostatic. That’s what makes CLAAS CMATIC tractors so much more efficient in the field compared with the competition"
Having relied on high powered four-track and half-track tractors, a change in crop establishment policy gave Farm Business
Manager Aaron Kew the opportunity to reassess machinery and tractor needs. Having looked at all the high powered wheeled and tracked options he took delivery of a 509hp XERION 5000 last Spring.
Having completed its second season with Lincs-based D&B Farming, a 2019 LEXION 7500 is continuing to impress, its performance further enhanced with the addition of a CONVIO FLEX header this harvest.
With a business that mixes contract farming, stubble-to-stubble contracting and in-house arable operations, D&B Farming has a seemingly ever-increasing workload.
Using the latest S10 Terminal, F Pickering & Sons have been the first in the UK to use section control with their 89-row Vaderstad Temp maize drill, resulting in considerable seed and cost savings.
At six years old and now with over 5,500 hours on the clock, the first pre-series AXION 900 to arrive in the UK has proved absolutely fautless and still turns in an impresssive performance.
M H Poskitt Ltd have seen both considerable agronomic and cost benefits since changing to a liquid fertiliser based system two years ago, with application rates determined using a CLAAS CROP SENSOR.