Knight Farm Machinery is making a series of appointments to its dealer network for the Bednar range of cultivation equipment which it now imports from the Czech Republic. It is also keen to expand the network to cover more of the UK.

Bednar is the Czech Republic's leading cultivation equipment manufacturer and already has significant export markets across mainland Europe and other key markets around the world.

The first dealers are: 

• Mark Weatherhead Ltd, with branches at Cambridge, Royston, Hertfordshire and Haverhill, Suffolk
• JPM Agriculture, Louth, Lincolnshire
• G & J Peck, with branches in Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire
• Johnson Brothers, Fakenham, Norfolk;
• Mike Garwood Ltd, Alton, Hampshire and Newport, Isle of Wight, and
• C & O Tractors, Blandford, Dorset and Wilton, Wiltshire.

Brian Knight believes the Bednar range will interest British farmers:"Bednar is a quality brand. We are impressed by their design and build quality, with a particularly good range of wide cultivators, seedbed finishing tools and germinators.

"The company also offers an excellent range of rear packers and rollers, although many machines can operate without one, which offers great flexibility in terms of the finish left.

"Bednar has many similarities to our own company, being young, ambitious and still owned by its founding family.