Growing with you

In this issue of Business and Industry Today, we are honoured to select Sumo UK as our Agricultural Machinery Company of the Month.

Sumo UK is a market-leading designer and manufacturer of seeding and cultivating equipment. Officially established in 1996, Sumo has diversified over the years from an original fabricating company in the early 1990s to the present-day agricultural powerhouse.

With a primary focus on Conservation Agriculture, Sumo is helping farmers with their primary asset: soil, through its range of innovative farming machinery. The product range includes equipment for: deep and shallow tillage, drilling technology, grassland machinery and associated accessories.

The Trio Combination Cultivator is the oldest product in the entire range, expertly designed for deep tillage. It provides all-in-one functionality, working the entire soil contour from plough to mini-till and can be utilised as a drill with the seeder attachment and Single Disc Opener (SDO) accessories. Many original customers are still happily using the Trio, bought decades earlier, proving that Sumo machinery is built-to-last.

Sumo are intent on helping farmers lower input costs, massively improve yields and thirdly, protect the environment at the same time. All machines are designed and manufactured on-site at the Melbourne site in East Riding, Yorkshire, using bespoke sheet metal and laser cutters by expert Design Engineers and an experienced and highly skilled production team. With an unparalleled reputation across the agricultural machinery sector, Sumo now has an extensive dealer network across the width and breadth of the UK and Ireland, the Baltic region, New Zealand and Australia.

“Our Direct Drill and DTS Strip-Till Technology is a perfect plough alternative for post-harvest stubble. The Direct Drill works on the zero-till premise – crop residue will become part of the soil profile, through the utilisation of the Direct Drill coulter. This enhances the overall health of soil microbes such as fungi and archaea and even the worms! The crop residue provides muchneeded cover for the soil, by trapping moisture and preparing the soil for young crops. This farming system massively reduces the cultivation stage, due to the now improved natural drainage, soil fertility and overall organic soil matter. This revolutionises soil qualitylowering expensive input costs, increasing the probability of soil quality for strong yields and even protecting the area from carbon loss.

“With the current focus on farming sustainably, the Direct Drill works in harmony with the soil, letting it replenish and at the same time, helping farmers protect and improve yields."

“Similarly, DTS Strip-Till technology is at the forefront of conservation agriculture. Strip-tillage provides huge improvements in soil structure, drainage, aggregation and erosion, with earmarked tillage helping worm numbers increase, through increasing organic soil levels. The versatile DTS-strip-till coulter can support with seed bedding, drilling, fertilising and reconsolidation simultaneously.”

Interested farmers can contact their local Sumo dealer and request a demonstration and then place an order. Their order will then be built from scratch by the expert team at the Yorkshire site.

Furthermore, there is no need to worry about future servicing or repairs/maintenance as your local dealer will organise all of this for you. Sumo UK will be at the following forthcoming trade shows:

• Tillage Live – 14 September 2023, WH Corbett, Atherstone

• LAMMA 2024 – 17-18 January, NEC, Birmingham.

For more information on SUMO UK, see the website below:
T +44 (0)1759 319900
info@sumo1.com
www.sumo1.com
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