Windrowing News
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Winter Litter Management: Make the Most of Time Between Flocks
Litter moisture is one of the most important, if not the most important, litter management parameters at all times of the year. Proper litter moisture is critical to reducing: ammonia formation bacterial growth and litter caking The result is an environment better for maintaining paw quality and bird health. Maintaining low litter moisture is even more critical in cold winter months when ...
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Styling Changes Coming to New Holland Haytools for Model Year 2022
For more than 70 years, New Holland’s red and yellow paint scheme has proudly stood for innovation and quality in haytools. As a nod to our heritage and a bold look to the future, new styling will be applied to Roll-BeltTM round balers, BigBaler PLUS large square balers, and brand new Speedrower® PLUS self-propelled windrowers in 2022. These appearance upgrades follow styling cues that ...
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C3 Farms and Poultry, LLC, Recognized for Environmental Excellence by Us Poultry
TUCKER, Ga. –Feb. 26, 2020–C3 Farms and Poultry, LLC,ofCaldwell, Texas,was one of sixfarms across the United States to receive U.S. Poultry & Egg Association’sFamily Farm Environmental Excellence Award during the 2020International Production & Processing Expoin Atlanta. U.S. Poultry & Egg Association (USPOULTRY) sponsors the annual awards in recognition of exemplary ...
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MAJOR Showcases New Amenity Machinery at UK Trade Shows
MAJOR to launch a trailed 7.3m (24’) Swift Rollermower at IOG Saltex 2019 (30-31 October) New CS Pro rotary deck for Compact tractors to debut at Holiday Park & Resort Innovation Show 2019 (6-7 November) Taking centre stage at Saltex 2019, the most important trade show for grounds maintenance and turf professionals, is the new 7.3m (24’) Swift Rollermower suitable for broad ...
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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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Major Swift scores for the top league clubs
When a professional football club asks you how you produced such a first class finish to a football pitch – you’ve got to be doing something right! Pride of workmanship is one of the key values of landscape contractors, H & I Kelly Landscape, based out of Poole, Dorset. It’s totally manned by a family team led by Hugh Kelly who started the business back in 1976, Irena, ...
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Kiverco unveils its Backbone in Waste Composting
Two waste and recycling experts have joined forces to protect the environment and create resources for future generations following the installation of a Kiverco waste screening plant at EnVar’s organic waste treatment site in Cambridgeshire. EnVar is the UK's largest waste in-vessel and windrow composting facility and currently recycles food waste and green waste, co-mingled food and ...
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New Holland Wins Six AE50 Awards for Engineering Innovation
New Holland Agriculture has been honored with six prestigious AE50 Awards by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE). The AE50 awards are presented for the fifty most innovative product ideas to enter the market in 2013. They honor new product ideas that are ranked highest in innovation, significant engineering advancement, and impact on the market served. The New ...
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Vermeer reveals new mower conditioner line
Vermeer is excited to introduce a new mower conditioner line that combines exceptional productivity, flexibility and convenience into one powerful package. With three models available – the MC2800, MC3300 and MC3700 Mower Conditioners – operators can get the machine that is right for their operation with the features they need to complete their job in their way. “At the heart ...
By Vermeer
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John Deere Introduces the W235 Self-Propelled Windrower
John Deere announces the addition of the new W235 Windrower to its hay and forage product line-up for 2014. This self-propelled windrower features more horsepower to handle tough field conditions, a larger cab for operator comfort, Integrated AutoTrac™ and CommandCenter™ display for improved operational efficiency and other improvements that make long days in the field more ...
By John Deere
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Download our new brochures
Since 1961, MENART has offered tailor-made machinery for on-farm recycling and for professionals in maintenance of our environment. Specialized in composting technologies for over 20 years, MENART manufactures its own total recycling machinery chain for the production of compost from urban waste - i.e. shredders, windrow turners, screens, sorting lines and bespoke equipment solutions... ...
By Menart
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Product Spotlight - X-series windrow turner’s patented scraper bar prevents odors
The X-series windrow turners from Komptech are the only turners on the market with optional scraper bar mounted behind the drum. This patented device allows the turner to pick up all of the windrow, even the very bottom three to four inches which other turners leave behind. It’s in these three to four inches where huge odor problems start for composters. Because this layer never gets ...
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BACKHUS Series 21
Edewecht, Munich, November 4, 2010 – Shortly after celebrating their 25th anniversary, BACKHUS EcoEngineers will be launching a new series of turners, the BACKHUS 21 series. With the new machines, the world’s leading company for turners is reacting to the growing demands in the composting sector. In their 25 years in the composting business, BACKHUS EcoEngineers have succeeded in ...
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TEG significantly expands with £6m acquisition
Composter TEG Group has bought another composting firm Simpro for £6m, increasing TEG’s processing capacity by 180,000 tonnes a year. Approved by shareholders last week, TEG will now be capable of processing 295,000 tonnes of organic waste each year. The deal will add six operational composting sites to the company’s portfolio, which are located in Stoke, Nottingham, Gaydon, Wolverhampton and ...
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Bioaerosol exposure remains health concern for compost site workers
Employees working in close-proximity to compost are potentially exposed to large concentrations of bioaerosols, research by the Health and Safety Executive confirmed. However, the report Bioaerosol emissions from waste comoposting and the potential for workers’ exposure highlighted that bioaerosols are “substantially reduced” at 50 to 100m distance downwind from the source when compared with its ...
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Countrystyle Group acquires TJ Composting
Waste management and recycling firm Countrystyle Group has significantly expanded its composting services after acquiring TJ Composting. Countrystyle Group will take over TJ Composting’s four operational sites in Hampshire, Sussex, Kent and Essex, which all use open windrow composting technologies. A keen supporter of composting, Countrystyle Group already owns two in-vessel composting ...
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Veolia`s Nottinghamshire composting plant plans rejected
Veolia Environmental Services’ planning application to build a composting plant next to a fresh food supplier in Nottingham has been refused by the local authority. Despite planning officers recommending the construction of the plant, Nottinghamshire County Council unanimously refused the application because of its possible impact on neighbouring businesses, which have campaigned against the ...
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Composting industry`s growth is set to continue
Results from the annual Association for Organics Recycling survey has shown a nine per cent increase in recycled organics. The 2007/08 report, put together by AFOR and the Waste & Resources Action Programme, showed 4.5 million tonnes of source segregated waste was composted in the UK with half of this sold on and industry reporting turnover of more than £165m in the year to April 2008. ...
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Safety of windrow composting questioned by British politician
In an attack on the safety of open air windrow composting, an MP has said anaerobic digestion should be the preferred option. During a Commons debate, MP Michael Clapham said that AD was preferable technology for recycling organics because it was “considered safe” and referred to AD as “recycling in a meaningful and productive way”. Clapham said: “As we move towards greater recycling, we find ...
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HBR purchase new bio machinery
HBR have purchased a new windrow turner from Menark in Belgium to assist on the bio remediation projects. To provide maximum flexibility the model chosen was the SP5300 tractor driven unit. The plant was trialled at the Luton Site on cemented chalk and preformed well under the circumstances. It is currently deployed on the Abingdon site to treat TPH, BTEX and trimethyl benzene residues from the ...
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