Harrows News
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Bob Sonntag Retires from S3
S3 Enterprises (“S3”) announced today that Bob Sonntag, President and owner, has retired and sold his interests in the organization. Bob has worked in agricultural manufacturing since 1985, when he joined Rem Manufacturing, in Swift Current, Saskatchewan. He first made his mark in the industry selling springs, tynes and rake teeth out of a sample case. Bob bought S3 in 2006, ...
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Product training in Pöttinger, Austria
Winter is a time for active training for the specialists of Bulagro Machines. At the end of January, our sales and service teams visited the Pöttinger headquarters in Austria to learn the technological innovations from the concern and to prepare for the upcoming spring campaign. Traditionally, the training included a theoretical and a practical part, with a tour of the factory and ...
By Bulagro AD
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Major 7.3m Swift delivering impeccable results for Cirencester Park Polo Club
The MAJOR Swift rollermower is the thoroughbred of mowers for the historic Cirencester Park Polo Club. The new 7.3m trailed model delivers an impeccable finish for groundkeeper Phil Cole and polo players alike. Within the 15,000-acre Bathurst Estate in Gloucestershire is the historic Ivy Lodge grounds, home to the oldest polo club in England. Opened in 1894 with just two grounds, ...
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A new generation of Indian farmers rejects industrial food production
Supported by the Amrita Bhoomi Agroecology Centre, young farmers are experimenting with natural farming methods, while saving money and lives in the process. India may be famous for its food, but the way in which it grows its ingredients is notoriously bad. Stories of the nation’s chemical spills, soil contamination, groundwater depletion, and lost biodiversity are depressing, not to ...
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S3 Delta Spreaders Debut
S3 Delta Harrows debuted a new line of broadcast spreaders at the Black Hills Stock Show in Rapid City, SD. Director of Business Development, Ida Van Scyoc says, "Land owners look for easy-to-use, low cost, and efficient ways to improve their yards, fields and pastures. Spreading seed or fertilizer at the same time as you are aerating and dethatching with the harrows just makes sense.” ...
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Four N113 HiTech 5 Tractors in Council Work
Like most British cities and towns, Derby includes a lot of open spaces – everything from acres of parkland, playing fields and golf courses to grass verges and central reservations. All of this land requires maintenance, such as grass cutting and replanting, tree cutting and the removal of cut timber, and repairs to the infrastructure, including roadways, walls and ornamental bridges. To ...
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Rice paddies raise methane threat
Directly seeding rice into fields rather than transplanting it into flooded paddies would dramatically reduce methane emissions and slow down climate change, according to scientists studying the staple crop. A number of experiments in Asia, particularly in the Philippines and Japan, show that a change in the way rice is grown would have considerable other benefits in saving water and improving ...
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Bellota Agrisolutions attends EIMA Agrimach 2015
EIMA Agrimach 2015 will take place from 3-5 December in New Delhi, India. This event is the only global meeting place in India for agricultural implements where the main agricultural machinery manufacturers exhibit their new farm equipments. Bellota Agrisolutions will be attending this Show in Hall B with a representation of concave discs for disc harrow, a machine that performs very well in ...
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Bellota Agrisolutions at CII Krishi Vikas show in India
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has organized "Krishi Vikas" Exhibition and Conference from 25 to 27 May 2015 at Dussehra Maidan, Annapoorna Road, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India. This event is organised concurrently with the inauguration of the Madhya Pradesh Government's largest agriculture show "Krishi Mahotsav"(from 25 May to 15 June) to help the farmers by showcasing latest techniques ...
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SIMA 2015 show Paris
Regarding tractors, besides the usual presence of the most established brands in the market, has drawn attention Kubota strategy, which will begin manufacturing tractors in France in spring, performing a range extending mading farm machinery (disc harrow, planters, cultivator) under the same brand. Have also seen Korean and Chinese manufacturers of tractors, although the chinese does not have a ...
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European owners satisfied with their Direct 2.0 tractors
The latest version of Valtra’s stepless transmission has won praise from owners around the world. The new Direct 2.0 is even easier to use, more powerful, quieter, more comfortable and more fuel efficient than previous versions. For example, cab noise levels on the T163 EcoPower model have been reduced to just 68.5 decibels. The Direct 2.0 transmission is available with the N123, N143, ...
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Sumatran fires: hype about the symptoms, insufficient action on the disease
Sumatra, Indonesia. The health and climate impacts of large peatland and forest fires in Sumatra provide yet another harrowing reminder of the unsustainability of palm oil and pulp wood plantations on peat. Massive fires raging on the Indonesian island of Sumatra have triggered warnings from health authorities in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, and sparked a row among the three countries ...
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Harrow to transform cigarette ends into loft insulation
Cigarette butts could be used to make loft insulation pillows in a new experiment being carried out by Harrow Council. Currently, around 4,000 discarded cigarettes are dropped every 24 hours in Harrow town centre alone. This waste is then dumped in landfill, as normally, it cannot be recycled. To solve this waste problem, the local authority is figuring out the feasibility of linking the ...
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Deep ploughing reduces diversity and number of earthworms
Less invasive soil preparation methods in farming, such as harrowing, have a positive impact on the numbers, biomass, and species richness of earthworms, unlike conventional ploughing, according to new research. The long-term study compared the results of five different methods of soil preparation on agricultural land in Germany over a ten-year period. Earthworms play a major role in the ...
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