Machinery Articles

Attendees at the WineGB Midlands and North ‘Waffle N Walk’ event at Rowton Vineyard in Shropshire had a chance to discover Fendt’s 200 V/F/P series, which was presented by the NP Seymour team. 

The UK’s growing wine industry faces a critical challenge: labour shortages and rising costs are pushing growers to consider mechanisation as a solution.

Specialist tractor and machinery dealer NP Seymour will showcase the country’s first Fendt e107 V Vario electric vineyard tractor on its stand at Fruit Focus on 9 July 2025 before giving growers a closer look during its Summer BBQ on 18 July 2025 at its Cranbrook headquarters.  

Machinery reporter Daniel Hodge takes an in-depth look at some of the latest specialist tractor options available to vineyards and fruit growers this year.

VineWorks, the UK’s vineyard services and development company, has announced the trial of an innovative new ground preparation machine, made specifically for vineyard planting, the Viti-Till.

Fruit & Vine recently spent a morning at Greyfriars Vineyard in Guildford, Surrey where NP Seymour hosted a demo day for customers to see the latest ERO harvester in action, and invited ERO along to talk through the technical aspects.

New Holland Braud grape and olive harvesters and straddle tractors set a new standard in reliability and support, the manufacturer says.

A compact handler selected for a busy Hertfordshire firewood supply business is proving even better suited to working in the estate’s expanding vineyards. David Williams reports.

In today’s world, there are machines (and now even robots) that can tackle almost every task in a vineyard or orchard, from planting and pruning to harvesting. NP Seymour director Claire Seymour explains more.

The 80-120hp Case IH Quantum tractors, available in vineyard, fruit, narrow and row crop versions, gain new features for 2025 that bring additional capabilities and performance from these specialist models.

A Cambridge-based developer of harvesting robots, Fieldwork Robotics, has announced its latest collaboration with manufacturer of autonomous and collaborative mobile robot platforms, Burro. 

Fruit & Vine was invited to a vineyard in North Essex to hear from a collaboration who are working together to bring robotics and artificial intelligence to vineyards. Neale Byart reports.