OPICO Ltd is pleased to announce the expansion of its partnership with Netherton Tractors Limited, to include Maschio Gaspardo tillage and seeding equipment and Maschio flail mowers, SKY grain drills and Strautmann forage and feeding wagons. 

Glenn Bootman has been appointed as Product Manager for SKY Agriculture drills and the HE-VA cultivation range in the UK.  

OPICO has widened its mechanical weed control line-up to include a new range of inter- and intra-row hoes.

OPICO has appointed Jess Percival as Web and Digital Marketing Coordinator to manage social and digital communications, further complementing the already strong marketing team.

OPICO has appointed Tom Brookes as Demonstrator, primarily for SKY drills, HE-VA cultivation equipment and OPICO inter-row cultivators.

OPICO has appointed Harvey Sherwin as a new Territory Manager to cover East Anglia and South East England.

OPICO has appointed Charlie Wilson as a new Territory Manager to cover Western, Central and Northern Scotland.

Cost effective OSR establishment with HE-VA's subsoiler and OPICO Variocast.

OPICO Ltd is pleased to announce the appointment of Brian Robinson Machinery (BRM Ltd) to their HE-VA and Sky dealer network.

Devon based contractor Charlie Brown explains the decisions behind his expansion to a fleet of four Strautmann forage wagons.

The Coxes switched over to a Strautmann Verti-Mix 2401, with the optional extra of a conveyor belt which would enable feed to be dispensed from either the left or the right.

A one-pass seeding strategy which minimises soil surface disturbance and weed germination, and boosts OSR crop establishment, helps to maximise potential.

Regular reseeding is an essential part of improving grassland performance which in turn reduces forage / feed costs

Contractor Ian Kirkby, saves time and money with HE-VA's Grass Rejuvenator

The heart of this state-of-the-art hybrid drying facility is a biomass boiler connected to an OPICO Magna automatic dryer.

HE-VA's Stealth – recently featured by Arable Farming as a new bit of arable kit ready for action this year.

A switch to silaging with a Strautmann Zelon forage wagon instead of a forager and trailers, has been a cost effective option for this family dairy farm with savings on fuel costs, labour and time.

OPICO began importing Sky's Easy Drill to the UK in 2016.   It has evolved from an initial collaboration in the 1970s between Sulky's Jacques Burel and Sam Moore who invented the Moore Unidrill, to the state of the art, latest generation 4 hopper, technologically sophisticated EasyDrill of today.

Another chance to read how a Strautmann Self-Propelled feeder boosts efficiency on this Dorset Farm

Worried about the impact their farms are having on Loweswater lake, a group of farmers is using two OPICO grassland rejuvenation machines to reduce run-off.  

"Every time you want to do something with this drill, its like a Frenchman has already thought about it and made it a little bit easier for you" says Tom Martin

After the wet autumn and winter a lot of grassland is in need of proactive management to remove compaction, revive soils and restore plants lost from standing water and floods.

A few years ago, we invested in a set of HE-VA grass rolls which fold down to an 8m working width but fold up hydraulically for moving between fields.

Traditionally a niche practice of organic cereal producers and field scale vegetable growers, comb harrowing and interrow cultivating are making a comeback.

With a growing emphasis on non-chemical measures to control arable weeds, OPICO has introduced a range of Hatzenbichler interrow cultivators.

Designed to satisfy the requirements of no till and reduced input farming systems, the HE-VA Stealth loosens and fractures the medium depth subsoil to relieve compaction thus assisting drainage, aeration, nitrogen uptake and encouraging crop rooting.