About Briggs Irrigation

Briggs Irrigation was formed in 1985 and has developed an expanding range of successful irrigation and dirty water dispersal systems.

Early success came with the company's range of self travelling rotary irrigators or "Roto Rainers". The "Model 10" was awarded the highest accolade in the agricultural machinery world - a prestigious Gold Medal in the Royal Agricultural Society of England Machinery Award Scheme - and soon led the market.

Still in production, and now sporting a number of design refinements, the Roto Rainers continue to offer effective, economical and environmentally friendly dispersal of dirty water.

Since the early '90s the company has concentrated on boom irrigation for farmers, growers and groundsmen. Working closely with each sector, Briggs Irrigation now makes and markets a range of advanced irrigation booms, used by successful UK farmers and increasingly on farms around the World.

Briggs booms are manufactured and maintained from the company's purpose-built factory in Corby - a convenient location for all parts of the UK and logistics facilities for exports.

The company also markets its own brand of hosereels and ancillary equipment including pumps and high tech control systems.

Despite continued expansion the Briggs team, led by Director Adrian Colwill, believe the company is still small enough to care but big enough to cope with the demands of the modern irrigation market.

Sustainability

Briggs Irrigation is committed to the production of equipment and solutions designed to help farmers, growers and amenity sectors use water in a sustainable way.

Our booms provide accurate, uniform irrigation, thus helping prevent waste. Tube diameters, nozzle selection and overall design is optimised to maximise efficiency.

Our systems are also designed to minimise energy requirements. For example, our diesel-engined pumps use modern, efficient engines, while our Roto Rainer range of self travelling irrigators harness the low pressure within the system to drive the unit across the land, avoiding the need for an engine.

Our standard hosereels likewise use water pressure to drive a turbine which retracts the hose, pulling the irrigation boom or raingun across the field.

Our dirty water systems are designed with consideration for avoiding air pollution from atomisation of waste water or drift from high trajectory spreading. Accurate, low volume distribution also reduces risk of contamination.

We are likewise committed to sustainable manufacturing technology and have installed solar panels on the roof of our factory in Corby, capable of generating 100KW of electricity.