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New Agrint UK Distributor

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New Agrint UK Distributor: Estate owners, groundskeepers, landscapers and contractors are now able to purchase high quality Italian groundcare machinery through Farm Tech Supplies. Having been recently appointed as Agrint’s sole distributor in the UK, Farm Tech is proud to offer the professional compact tractor attachments through its dealer network.

The Agrint brand is a division of Del Morino who has been manufacturing and supplying high quality agricultural implements to the agricultural, landscape and amenity sectors for over 140 years. Well known for its light weight, durable and competitively priced products, the Agrint range is a welcome addition to Farm Tech’s product catalogue.

New Agrint UK Distributor

Helen Lloyd-Bisley of Farm Tech Supplies, says: “We are delighted to have been appointed the UK sole distributor for Agrint and look forward to showcasing their products at our events this year. There is a high demand for Agrint groundcare machinery here in the UK, and they have a great reputation for manufacturing well engineered products at affordable prices, which complements our existing products extremely well.”

All Agrint implements are designed and manufactured in Italy and 92% of components are manufactured in-house. The professional attachments are suitable for all popular sub-compact and compact tractors and come with a two year warranty as standard.

As well as being extremely well engineered, Agrint products are robust yet lightweight making them highly suitable for estate work and grounds maintenance. The range includes Rotovators, Flail Mowers, Manual Offset Flail Mowers, Heavy Duty Reversible Flail Mowers, Topper Mowers, Finishing Mowers, Wood Chippers and a Backhoe; a comprehensive choice of groundcare machinery for Farm Tech customers and dealers. Pricing starts from £995, highly competitive with other manufactures, and in many cases offering higher quality groundcare machinery at a more favourable price.

Farm Tech also stocks a range of spare parts and accessories ensuring customers get longevity and good use out of their Agrint groundcare machinery, available to purchase online or via Farm Tech’s network of distributors.

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New ICL Area Sales Manager

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New ICL Area Sales Manager: ICL has announced the appointment of Craig Lalley as its new Technical Area Sales Manager, with Craig set to cover North East England, Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire. 

Craig joins ICL with a wealth of experience having spent his entire working career within the turf and landscape industry. It all started in greenkeeping where Craig enjoyed 13 years working on golf courses. He then moved into amenity sales before joining Mansfield Sand as Football and Golf Sales Manager – a position he excelled in for the past four years before joining ICL.

New ICL Area Sales Manager

Complimenting Craig’s experience is his impressive list of qualifications which includes BASIS, Level 2 and 3 in Amenity Sports Turf, a Technical Certificate, a degree module in Construction & Design and certificates PA1, 2 and 6 in the Safe Use of Pesticides.

Craig starts his new role with ICL on 1st May and will be responsible for providing support to distributors and end users by offering high quality technical advice and product recommendations as well as creating tailored nutritional and disease control programmes.

For further information, please contact ICL on 01473 237100 or visit www.icl-sf.co.uk or www.icl-sf.ie

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GreenTek’s Sarel Roller

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GreenTek’s Sarel Roller: After all the heavy rain we’ve had lately, it’s time to open up the surface of your greens! The Sarel Roller from GreenTek assists with irrigation by spiking the surface and creating thousands of holes for rainfall to fall into.

Its rear brush sweeps this water and dew down the holes and deep into the root zone. This leaves an open surface which drains freely.

GreenTek's Sarel Roller

The elimination of puddles and standing water on the surface helps get your greens back in play quickly. It also helps the grass dry faster, reducing the risk of fusarium to promote healthy turf.

As the season goes on and we start to see the warmer summer weather, the combination of dust and foot traffic will also cause the greens to become sealed.

This results in rainfall evaporating off without being absorbed into the root zone where it is needed. The Sarel Roller, by opening up the surface, prevents this happening.

Truly this exceptional bit of kit is a must-have for greenkeepers and groundsmen who want to maintain quality turf that breathes and drains, whilst allowing nutrients to be absorbed.

The Sarel Roller has a working width of 1.5m so it can cover a large area, and it has a weight of 138kg. Its rear brush has a working width of 1.5m with a weight of 8kg.

Use the Sarel Roller to:

  • Prick thousands of small holes through sealed turf surfaces
  • Brush and disperse surface water and moisture
  • Decrease use of wetting agents
  • Reduce risk of fusarium
  • Incrase germination rates by using before and after overseeding

All GreenTek products are covered by at least a 2 years parts and labour warranty for commercial use and 3 months warranty for hire use.

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Outlaw For Aspiring Gamekeepers

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Outlaw For Aspiring Gamekeepers: Two lucky kids, Arthur and Belle Rhodes arrived home from school one day to find a big surprise. National Gamekeeper Organisation member’s wife, Louise and dad Jamie had purchased tickets for their children and entered the NGO Summer Prize Draw launched at The Game Fair. The star prize was a Polaris Outlaw 50 Junior quad bike, which is designed for children over the age of six, and ideal for budding gamekeepers.

The winning ticket, which cost just £1, was drawn at the Countryfile Live Show at Blenheim Palace. To their delight Louise and Jamie Rhodes were the winners. The Polaris Outlaw, which has a RRP of £1,999, was presented to them by Richard Coleby, Polaris’ District Sales Manager.

Outlaw For Aspiring Gamekeepers

“We’re thrilled”, said Jamie “this has been an extremely welcome surprise to have won this bike, we have had a smaller quad bike for a couple years now for our two children Arthur and Belle to use but it is now too small and we were looking at replacing it with a new one. Both Arthur and Belle were so excited to take delivery of the bike. Unfortunately they were at school when it was delivered but it was an excellent surprise for them when they arrived home!”

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Watford Pitch Wins Award

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Watford Pitch Wins Award: The Premier League Grounds Team of the Season award for the 2017/18 campaign has gone to Watford.

The club’s head groundsman, Scott Tingley, and his team won the award for the pitch at Vicarage Road after assessment from the Premier League’s Playing Surfaces Committee and the independent assessor Dr Stephen Baker from the Sports Turf Research Institute.

The award is based on a number of factors including marks from referees and match delegates, usage of the pitch and the environmental conditions, an end-of-season pitch quality assessment and the resources and resource management at each club.

“The award is testament to the pitch’s current condition, the result of much hard work and dedication from the club’s grounds team,” Scott Duxbury, the club chairman, said.

Tingley and his team will receive the award on 5 May, at Watford’s match with Newcastle United.

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