Customer Stories

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  Fully adjustable Patriot ticks all the boxes

  F C Palmer & Sons of Streatham Nr Ely farm around 4000 acres comprising their own two farms at Stretham and Haddenham and a number of contract farms. They have recently introduced a Cousins Folding Patriot for primary tillage, following demonstrations earlier in the year on a range of crops including leaks and potatoes grown on their rich Fenland soils. When we visited they were min tilling after wheat on mixed land and it is the more..

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  Still Committed to Beet

  Wisbech based farm contractor Nigel Harrison, trading as HAC Ltd, had as bad a beet campaign as anyone, losing over 30 acres of beet due to deterioration and 300 acres of contract lifting due to the same problem, but he freely admits he is still committed to the crop, even after such a big hit. “But it needs specialist kit and sizable investment demands acres. The loss of efficiency equals loss of profit!” To this end more..

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  Fen Packer, the light touch

  Arguably, the Cambridgeshire Fens contain the most fertile soil in the country. The light, loamy, black fen soil, however, demands dedicated machinery if optimum yields are to be achieved. Cousins’ 6.4m Fen Packer, like so many of the company’s innovative products, has been developed to meet these specific requirements. The 900mm diameter packer rings are made from steel, not heavy cast iron, concentrating the consolidation without leaving indentations. The articulated frame is fully contouring and folds more..

• Carrington Farms put new OSR Micro-Wing to the test

  There has been much in the farming press about combating black grass in arable crops, especially winter sown OSR. Cousins of Emneth have worked closely with their customers and crop production specialists, Hutchinsons to produce an OSR establishment system to give minimal soil disturbance and maximum output with low power requirement. It also minimises weed grass germination. The result is based on a V-Form soil loosener with shallow working Micro-Wing Tines followed by more..