Oliver Mark

United Kingdom

Machinery Editor at Farmers Weekly

@FarmersWeekly Machinery Desk 🚜

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Cereals 2025: Alpego returns with Dtek power harrow combi drill

1 week ago | fwi.co.uk | Oliver Mark

Alpego Dtek power harrow combi drill © MAG/Oliver Mark Opico has relaunched Alpego’s Dtek power harrow drill following increased demand for the improved weight distribution of a front-and-rear combination. The 350hp-rated power harrow unit comes with quick-fit, drop-forged tines as standard – longer-lasting tungsten carbide versions are available – and the choice of three rear rollers.
Cereals 2025: Agroma returns with low-cost trailed sprayers

2 weeks ago | fwi.co.uk | Oliver Mark

Greek sprayer maker Agroma is having another tilt at the UK market, having previously built machines for FarmGem and sold them through Lincolnshire outfit S&K Sprayer Services. Its trio of trailed models tops out with the arable-focused Millenium T-series, available with a 3,000- or 4,000-litre plastic tank and booms up to 32m wide. See also: Sprayers: Where are they made?
Cereals 2025: Maschio shows monster 10m Jumbo X power harrow

2 weeks ago | fwi.co.uk | Oliver Mark

Growers with the horsepower, if not the implement, to beat up cloddy soil on a big scale can now do so with Maschio’s one-of-a-kind 10m power harrow. The appropriately named Jumbo X weighs nearly 7.5t and needs pairing with a tractor of at least 450hp.
Workshop Legends: Warwickshire College lecturer Tym Morgan

2 weeks ago | fwi.co.uk | Oliver Mark

Thousands of students, and many readers, will have learned how to operate, maintain and repair agricultural machinery – or come to appreciate their mechanical limitations – under the tutelage of Tym Morgan. He held post at Warwickshire College of Agriculture for 35 years in a career that, in the case of this writer and many others, spanned two family generations.
15 Jahre Wald- und Wiesenfreunde: Mittelalterliches Bruchfest Pfingsten

1 month ago | wochenblatt-reporter.de | Oliver Mark

Zum 15-jährigen Bestehen des Vereines wird es (endlich) zu Pfingsten 2025 das mittelalterliche Bruchfest geben!An Pfingsten 2020 wollten wir ursprünglich zum 10-jährigen damit aufwarten und hätten an Pfingsten 2021 ebenso gerne gerne unsere Gäste des Bruchfestes ins Mittelalter entführt. Nun ist es endlich soweit. Das Publikum darf sich von mittelalterlicher Live-Musik, Gauklern, Feuershow, darstellendem Handwerk und orientalischem Tanz verzaubern lassen.
Carbon Robotics ramps up output of weed-zapping LaserWeeder

2 months ago | fwi.co.uk | Oliver Mark

Precision-weeding specialist Carbon Robotics has revamped its ultra-accurate LaserWeeder to make it lighter, faster and more affordable. Like the original model, the G2 combines computer vision, artificial intelligence and laser technology to detect and zap weeds in a growing crop. But the latest iteration can do so twice as fast, thanks to upgraded Nvidia graphic processing units (GPUs) and more powerful 240w lasers.
Contractor Comment: Diversification key for JO Straughan and Co

2 months ago | fwi.co.uk | Oliver Mark

Fendt 728 and 724 © MAG/Oliver Mark JO Straughan & Co has been offering a comprehensive range of agricultural, plant hire and haulage services to customers in Northumberland and the Scottish Borders since 1955. Owner Roger Dickinson runs the business alongside his wife Sandra, sons Stuart and David, and daughter-in-law, Debbie. See also: Contractor Comment: Challenges of contracting on a small islandWe find out all about the business and some of the machines they use.
Wilderness Lighting unveils roof-mounted warning board

Mar 29, 2025 | fwi.co.uk | Oliver Mark

Wilderness Lighting has launched a new roof-mounted warning board for farmers moving oversized machinery on the road. The eye-catchingly flashy array includes twin front and rear amber LED strobes and a pair of squat rotating beacons. These surround high-visibility chevron signage complete with “wide load” lettering.
RS Agri debuts new vertical beater muckspreader range

Mar 21, 2025 | fwi.co.uk | Oliver Mark

Vertical beater muckspreaders are now available from RS Agri, the Hampshire outfit that, until now, had specialised in diet feeders and bale processors. Its Polish-built Atlas range initially encompasses several models from 9-16t, but bigger ones, and versions with horizontal beaters, are set to be introduced later this year. The current flagship is a 16-tonner that comes with two parallel floor conveyors.
What's in Your Shed? visits a one-man Carmarthenshire contractor

Mar 17, 2025 | fwi.co.uk | Oliver Mark

Aled Jones © MAG/Oliver Mark What’s In Your Shed visits Carmarthenshire contractor Aled Jones, who runs a one-man operation with five frontlines tractors. Aled Jones Contracting offers spraying, fertiliser spreading, mowing, cultivating and drilling services.