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CLAAS Global Mentions
Ultimate guide to buying a combine 2023edit
Farmers Weekly – Online
New and improved models at the top and bottom end of the performance spectrum characterise the changes in this year’s Ultimate Guide to combines – along with the arrival of the first £1m machines. While Case IH, Claas and New Holland have hit the £750,000 mark or thereabouts with their flagship models, the John Deere X9 1000 on tracks with a 12.2m HDX header and both wheeled and tracked versions of the X9 1100 with a 13.7m header carry a list price of more than a million pounds. Not a price that growers will pay, of course, given the “discounts” available to get a deal price in the right ballpark, but a landmark nonetheless.
Stubble Burning
How some farmers in Punjab are cashing in on stubble instead of burning itedit
Hindustan Times – Online
A handful of farmers in Punjab have started disposing crop residue — which is usually burnt and causes air pollution — in a sustainable manner, either by using it as natural fertiliser or selling it for fuel production. These farmers have not only reduced consumption of fertilisers by mixing crop residue in the soil but have also begun to monetise the practice by managing the stubble of other growers. Bhupinder Singh, 59, who cultivates 30 acres in Badarpur, the last village of Mohali district, has not been burning paddy stubble since 2018. Instead, he mixes it with soil using an MB plough, a tillage equipment, after which the land is ready for sowing the next ...