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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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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Rigby Taylor’s Ryder Cup Comp

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Rigby Taylor’s Ryder Cup Comp: Rigby Taylor has launched a promotion called Seeds For Change with prizes of Ryder Cup weekends and POGO soil moisture measurement and management systems.

Each of the first three winning entries will win for the golf/sports club a POGO Pro moisture management system and free one-year Cloud subscription while the head greenkeeper/course manager/head groundsman will receive an-expenses paid weekend at the 2018 Ryder Cup.

Rigby Taylor's Ryder Cup Comp

The prize includes return travel, two night’s hotel accommodation and full on-course, corporate hospitality at the 42nd Ryder Cup being held at Le Golf National (Albatros Course) in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, a suburb south west of Paris.

POGO Pro measures all four of the most influential variable governing turf performance – moisture, salinity (EC), canopy temperature and salinity index. It connects remotely to any Apple or android device and its integrated GPS features include precise location, geospatial condition analysis, cup placements, sprinkler positioning and patterns, area measurement and custom mapping.

Rigby Taylor seeds offer greenkeepers and groundsmen unmatched quality and benefits, including top performing cultivars, tetraploid technology and Germin-8T, an advanced seed treatment with added trichoderma atroviride for improved disease tolerance.

As part of the Seeds For Change promotion, the listed seed packages for greens, tees or fairways, as well as sports pitches, from Rigby Taylor’s R range include new perennial ryegrass cultivars (Estelle, Eurocordus and Gianna) as part of the already hugely successful R9 ultra-fine dwarf rye, R14CR creeping and diploid, and R25CRT tetraploid creeping and diploid ranges, respectively, as well as the new R442 tetraploid and diploid perennial ryegrass blend mixture.

Rigby Taylor's Ryder Cup Comp

Customers are required to order (direct with a Rigby Taylor area representative) any of the listed packages for greens, tees or fairways, as well as sports pitches, and correctly answer a technical question to gain an entry into the national draw.

The grass seed order can also be combined with hectare applications of Exteris StressGuard for turf disease prevention and/or Activate-XL, a microbial biostimulant for improved early rooting development. As additional ‘packages’ are ordered then more entries can be made into the draw.

For more details, contact your Rigby Taylor area representative or Freephone 0800 424919.

For more information, visit: www.rigbytaylor.com

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New Territory Manager For Kioti

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New Territory Manager For Kioti: To cover Scotland and Northern England, Kioti UK have confirmed the appointment of Richard Green as Area Sales Manager.

Richard is based in central Scotland and brings with him a large amount of knowledge and experience of Compact tractors and the Groundcare industry.

New Territory Manager For Kioti

Richard also has the advantage of already being familiar with the Kioti range of products having sold them successfully in his previous employment.

Richard also has experience in the Agricultural and Construction industries.

For further details of the Kioti range of products please do not hesitate to contact Richard Green on 07876 593216.

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