Farms and Farm Machinery

Keeping it simple

Don’t confuse simplicity with basic either. I’m sure it’s taken plenty of time and research to get to the Buckton silage wagon of today.

Keeping things simple is exactly what this month’s test machine, the Buckton SD100 silage wagon, is all about. Silage wagons have been the go-to machine for feeding bulk pit silage of both grass and maize varieties for years on farms throughout the country.

Although mixer wagons have been appearing around the countryside for some time now, they can’t compete with a standard silage wagon for ease of use, and this can be an important factor on farms where staff are animal people and machinery is a necessary evil to keep the animals fed.

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