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Introduced in 2017, the N-series adopted the new cab and SmartTouch controls first seen on the six-cylinder T-series. In 2018, our test candidate N154e pulled into the yard of its new owner’s livestock and arable farm, where it's the main workhorse. Task list includes a full range of fieldwork, tilling with a 3.0m wide Amazone Cenius tined cultivator, ploughing with a five-furrow Kverneland, sowing with a 3.0m wide Amazone power harrow drill combination and then returning to spread fertiliser and do the spraying.

On the livestock side of things, it has to pull a 12m³ slurry tanker with a 15m wide dribble bar, while transport jobs see it hitched to a Krampe Big Body 540 trailer. If that wasn’t enough, the Valtra is also tasked with materials handling using an MX T412+ front loader.

As for level of spec, this mighty Finn passed through the Valtra Unlimited department, where

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