November 2008

MANUAL SPREADING –
IT’S THE LAST STRAW!

“Spreading straw for pigs on your own on a hot day is not a job, it’s a sentence”, says John Ledingham jnr, with a passion and in a tone of voice that makes it quite clear he’s happy never to have to do the job again.

His family rear 1,000 pigs for Grampian Country Foods at Fintry, North of Turriff, Aberdeenshire, with the animals being kept in large airy straw pens.

24 October 2008

STRAW SAVINGS ADD UP!

With straw prices already rising this winter following the wet harvest, making best use of what you have will reap both economic and practical benefits.

Leicestershire dairy farmer Phil Newcombe believes he is getting both by distributing bedding straw mechanically, as he has cut straw usage by over 30% and the task takes half as long as it did when done manually.

8 October 2008

CHANGE OF SPREAD-A-BALE MARKETING ARRANGEMENT

CHK PLC are pleased to confirm that as of the 1st August 2008 we will be marketing and supporting this product directly.

CHK have been the manufacturers of the Spread-A-Bale range for a number of years and so this change in marketing does not effect production of the machines, which remains at our Crewe UK facility. In fact we firmly believe that this “hands on” approach will better serve you, our customers, with a direct link to our engineering and manufacturing resource.

October 2008

SAVE STRAW WITH SPREAD-A-BALE

Livestock farmers can cut the amount of straw needed to bed down livestock by using the RASE Gold Medal winning Spread-A-Bale to distribute it effectively across the full width of livestock pens.

That could be a huge benefit this winter as straw prices look set to increase because only half as much has been baled this autumn due to the wet harvest, and much of what has been baled has lain in the field wet and may not be of good quality.