Grange Machinery launches ‘maize ready’ version of popular 6m CCT

Yorkshire manufacturer Grange Machinery is launching an updated version of its popular 6m Close Coupled Toolbar (CCT) at Agritechnica 2025.

The latest variation of the machine introduces tine spacings of 75cm in addition to spacings of 50cm, along with extra brackets that enable users to alter the spacings of the low disturbance legs.

The implement has been developed in conjunction with farmers who want a traditional 50cm soil loosener during harvest but who drill maize and other row crops at 75cm.

Combined with a mounted or trailed drill, the 6m CCT enables the removal of soil compaction and the precision drilling of maize in a single pass.

Rhun Jones, Managing Director of East Yorkshire-based Grange Machinery, said the company had been asked about a CCT with 75cm tine spacings on a number of occasions, so decided demand was sufficient to develop it.

He said: “Sowing maize in 75cm rows is becoming more common. People were looking at the 6m CCT and saying, ‘I like it, I want one’, but then the conversation about maize would come up. Often, when they found out it couldn’t do that, they’d leave it.

“But with a lot of customers asking about it, we decided we had to get it sorted. So, we worked closely with one of our customers who wanted the 50cm spacings during harvest but also grows a large acreage of maize.

“With his input, we have designed a machine that does both and we’re very excited about it. It functions as an all-loosening system during harvest, but a maize and strip tillage system in that season, so it’s very versatile.”

The 6m CCT is designed to operate with mounted and trailed implements and is PTO-ready.

It excels at track eradication, shallow subsoiling, correcting compaction in pre-drill and post-harvest passes, and combined with a packer roller, it creates the perfect pre-drilling seedbed in one pass.

Rhun added launching the new CCT at Agritechnica will be a huge highlight for the Yorkshire business.

He said: “Agritechnica is the biggest farm machinery show in Europe, possibly even the world.

“To be exhibiting is a privilege, but to be launching a new machine there is a dream come true.

“We cannot wait to sample the atmosphere and showcase the Grange brand on such a grand scale.”