Category: Machines

From 18 to 41 quintals. This is the load capacity range offered by the Jcb telescopic wheel loaders available in Italy, a type of machine that currently has a niche market but is gaining popularity thanks to the spread of bioenergy companies. In these contexts, the ability to have robust handling systems that can operate in tight spaces and manage significant loads is strategically crucial for productivity. Telescopic wheel loaders meet these mission profiles well. After feeding the digesters, they can be ballasted as needed and used to compact silage…

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The Agricultural Sector is Undergoing a Deep Transformation in Italy and Viticulture is Fully Involved. This is demonstrated by data from the latest General Census of Agriculture, which shows that Italian wine companies have undergone an evolution parallel to that of other sector enterprises in numerical terms, reducing by 68 percent over the twenty years between 2000 and 2020. However, they have differentiated themselves from the sector’s macro trends in production terms, maintaining the cultivated area unchanged in the last decade. Towards Higher Production Quality A transformation towards a more…

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“Would you like to try my Weidemann T4512?” More or less with this phrase, three years ago, the Weidemann dealer for the province of Cremona proposed to Giovanni Bianchessi, owner of the livestock farm “Bianchessi Giuseppe e Figli”, to directly test the operational capabilities of the German loader for a few days. Compact in size and limited in engine performance, 25 or 45 horsepower depending on the engine unit it is equipped with, the proposal initially did not generate great enthusiasm, but it was accepted nonetheless. Weidemann Movers: compact, and…

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Haymaking practices encompass a variety of crops, each requiring different technical and managerial approaches. Although producing hay and ensuring multiple cuts per year, a field cultivated with alfalfa differs from one with ryegrass or a mixed meadow. Additionally, autumn-winter cereals such as barley and triticale are harvested in mid-spring when their grains reach a milky-waxy stage of maturity. This results in a single annual cut with attached shredding, capable of yielding several tons of green material for the farm. For instance, some hybrid barley varieties can produce up to one…

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Hard times for those who prefer working with planned and certain bases. Nowadays, it is especially difficult to predict market trends, particularly for activities such as agriculture and livestock farming, which are influenced by a myriad of economic factors and are also at the mercy of climatic instabilities that negatively affect yields. In this context, it’s clear that investments in work equipment must be made with great caution, especially when they are significant and aimed at renewing or expanding machinery fleets. Compromises must be made between adopting an evolution in…

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Held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from November 30th to December 12th, the 28th edition of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, abbreviated as “Cop 28,” has repositioned agriculture at the center of the global economic-environmental scenario. The annual meeting of the countries that participated in the event has indeed changed the traditional paradigms of discussion for the first time, omitting both the usual generic and predictable speeches regarding the need to protect the environment and those fanciful proposals for epochal changes that in Europe materialized in the utopian…

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Officially, it can move loads of up to 35 quintals and unload bulk materials up to almost four and a half meters in height. It also provides a pulling force of 60 tons and a towing capacity of 66, performance close to those offered by the top-of-the-line telehandler that Dieci offers in its “AgriFarmer” series, the “34.7” model, whose telescopic arm, however, exceeds six meters in height with its joint. Put in these terms and considering that the price difference between a telescopic loader and a telehandler exceeds 40,000 euros,…

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Initially marketed only in North America, the new top-of-the-line axial combine harvester “Af11” by Case Ih aims to redefine industry performance standards not only in terms of power output but also, and above all, in terms of hourly productivity and automation of operational processes. Based on the latest agricultural censuses in Italy and the United States, the average surface areas of the two primary sectors show incomparable extensions. 188 hectares beyond the Atlantic Ocean, 14 and a half hectares in the Belpaese. An almost abysmal difference that, although known and…

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