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2017.
East Yorkshire farm machinery importer hosts Demonstration Days

East Yorkshire farm machinery importer hosts Demonstration Days

 

A Yorkshire farm machinery importer and precision farming specialist is opening up the farm gates to showcase his wide range of machinery and precision farming equipment next month.

Between 23rdand 25thMay, Market Weighton based Andrew Manfield and his team at Manterra Ltd will be conducting full working demonstrations of Trimble screens and steering solutions; Unia cultivation, grassland and spreading machinery;APV seeding and slug pelleting systemsand the Baertschi OekoSem IV ROTOR-Strip-Till System and will be displaying products fromsmallholding and forestry specialist,Kellfri.

There will also be the opportunity to view wheat variety trials grown by ADAS and to review the progress of Manterra's strip-till cultivation trial of oil seed rape with a cover crop of white clover.

The Demonstration Days will take place at Hessleskew Farm, Sancton, East Yorkshire between 3pm and 8pm on Tuesday 23rdMay to Thursday 25thMay. Refreshments will be available and there will be a prize draw to wina Kellfri backpack leaf blower worth £200.

For more information about Manterra's Demonstration Days, contact Andrew Manfield on 07944 426086.

 

Manterra Ltd was established by farmer and agronomist, Andrew Manfield in 2011 and has its foundations in a farming business that was established at the beginning of the last century.

 

Manterra is also the key technology supplier to the Stockbridge Technology Centre's Tru-Nject project that has secured Innovate UK funding for a three year trial to commercialise innovative soil nutrient mapping technology that has the potential to revolutionise farming practices.

 

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Photo: A demonstration from the 2016 Demonstration Days

 

For more information or to arrange an interview with Andrew Manfield, please contact Tracey Baty at three60 marketing on;

 

Direct line: 01430 871360

Mobile: 07971 961574

E mail:traceybaty@three60marketing.co.uk

Web:www.three60marketing.co.uk

 

Notes to editors

 

  1. For more information about Manterra, please visithttp://manterra.co.uk/

  2. For more information about Trimble, please visithttp://www.trimble.com/Agriculture/index.aspx

  3. For more information about Tru-Nject, please visithttp://www.tru-nject.co.uk/

  4. For more information about Baertschi, please visithttp://www.baertschi.com/en/willkommen.html

  5. For more information about Unia, please visithttp://new.uniagroup.com/en/

  6. For more information about Kellfri, please visithttps://www.kellfri.co.uk/