Farms and Farm Machinery

Green shoots

A European organic food producer has developed what it claims to be the world’s first hybrid biomethane and electric tractor.

Based in Lithuania, the Auga group is Europe’s largest vertically integrated organic food producer, running 39,000ha of organic cereals, root crops and vegetables, plus a large dairy farm with 3,400 cows.

It has developed its own Auga M1 tractor, which can do the work of a diesel-powered 400 horsepower (298kW) tractor, only with

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