AgriBrink moves from Canada to rural Boone County Nirmalendu Majumdar Ames Tribune Jake Kraayenbrink, owner of AgriBrink, moving from Ontario, Canada, to Boone County, demonstrates the company’s technology, which allows farmers to quickly reduce tire inflation to prevent soil compaction. Nirmalendu Majumdar/Ames Tribune AgriBrink owner, Jake Kraayenbrink, and his wife, Betty Kraayenbrink, during an interview at their home in rural Boone...

Author of the article: Brian Thompson Publishing date: Aug 18, 2022  •  August 18, 2022  •  2 minute read  •   Join the conversation Heavy equipment used in agriculture can have a major impact on crop yield. About 175 farmers gathered at Snobelen Farms on Highway 2 near Langford Thursday to learn about the impact of soil compaction. Peter Johnson, an agronomist with Real Agriculture, described perfect...

AgriBrink The AgriBrink system fitted to a tractor and trailer © Larrington Trailers AgriBrink is an air inflation/deflation system from Canada supplied by Larrington Trailers. It features a front-mounted tractor bumper unit housing a large-capacity hydraulically driven compressor and two compressed air storage tanks. A distribution manifold, regulated by an in-cab control unit programmed with the required inflation pressures, sends...

By WniF editors  DEC 9, 2021  Larrington Trailers, Michelin East Anglian business Feltwell Growers has ordered four new Larrington Trailers specified with Michelin TrailXBib VF tyres and an AgriBrink central tyre inflation system (CTIS) after trials showed the superb soil protection qualities of the set-up. One of the largest family-owned fresh produce suppliers in the UK, the business had planned to move...

© MAG/Matilda Bovingdon Larrington Trailers has partnered up with Canadian brand AgriBrink to offer a central tyre inflation system (CTIS) to combat soil compaction. As the sole importer to the UK, Larrington claims that this is the country’s first high-speed CTIS that can be hooked up to both tractors and trailers simultaneously, inflating up to 10 VF (very high flexion)...

28th October 2021 An aftermarket on-board tyre inflation system is helping one of the UK’s largest vegetable and salad producers protect vulnerable black fen soils. David Williams reports. West Norfolk-based Feltwell Growers grows approximately 6,000t of radishes on 400ha of fen near Downham Market. The company is part of G’s Growers – one of the UK’s largest salad and vegetable...

  September 15, 2021 James Morgan Ontario, Prescott-Russell AgriBrink, Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association, soil, soil compaction, tire pressure adjustment systems Tires may be full of light air, but that rubber is holding up a lot of heavy equipment, and that can harmfully compact the soil underneath and have damaging effects on farmland.  Farm organizations and businesses are trying to reduce the impact of soil compaction through research,...

January 15, 2021 South West Tire Reaction Zuid West Banden in Klaaswaal (ZH) has become the importer of Agribrink’s Canadian tire pressure exchange system. It does this in collaboration with Troost and Van Gurp in Stad aan ‘t Haringvliet (ZH). The Canadian system differs from other systems by the rapid time it takes to lower the tire pressure. According to...

You could be risking your soil health, crop yield and operating efficiency By Madeleine BaergPublished: April 28, 2020 Features, Machinery and Shop Quick quiz: when was the last time you checked your equipment’s tire pressure? Very few farmers manage the recommended weekly tire pressure checks; even fewer meet the ideal of a daily pressure check. The result? Tire experts agree that almost all western...