Farms and Farm Machinery

Gold standard

It’s unarguably well built and innovative and performs not only in in the paddock but is also easy to live with

Having managed a trip to Canterbury for a visit to Euroagri prior to the lockdown, my focus was on checking out the German-made Lemken Karat 12. Bear with me, as it may be a little confusing, but there are two options of the machine here: the Karat 9 and Karat 12, and this has nothing to do with working width. The Lemken Karat 12 is the longer version, due to an additional row of legs. There are four rows on the Karat 12, and three rows of legs on the Lemken 9.

Our test machine for the day was the six-metre version of the Karat 12. There’s only one

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