Farming Today This Week: Machinery

Farming Today

• Episode: Farming Today This Week: Machinery
• Website: Farming Today
• Feed URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qj8q/episodes/downloads.rss
• Duration: 00:24:52
• Published: 2018-01-20 08:00

After a week that saw day two of LAMMA - the UK's biggest agricultural machinery show - cancelled because of dangerous weather conditions, Charlotte Smith goes to Lincolnshire to gauge the mood at Garford Farm Machinery - speaking to MD Philip Garford and Sales Manager Chris Lunn about the agricultural machinery sector today; the booming second hand market; safety when using farm equipment; and the future of on-farm machinery and robotics. Meanwhile Anna Hill visits machinery vendor Cheffins in Cambridgeshire to find out about the 'Brexit boom' for second-hand equipment, with Director of Machinery Auctions Bill Pepper; Nancy Nicolson learns about the 100-year anniversary of Fordson Tractors; and Lucy Taylor meets Rick and Laura Holt, Evesham-based tomato growers, to find out about their reliance on machinery as well as people power - and how that balance might change in future. Presented by Charlotte Smith; produced by Lucy Taylor.