Europe’s 'highest spec' lime spreader clinches Machine of the Year

Inventor Richard Kane admits the machine is the culmination of his own wishlist for the perfect lime spreader.

Niall Tiernan with the Spread Point Machine of the Year at the National Ploughing Championships at Ratheniska, Co Laois. Picture: Dan Linehan

A lime spreader claiming to be the “highest spec” in Europe, has been named the Machine of the Year at this year’s National Ploughing Championships.

But smashing the piggy bank at €131,000, SpreadPoint’s SX-A is unlikely to be a machine for the small suckler farmer.