Agriland Team

Global food security experts met in Belfast this week
Global food security experts met in Belfast this week

Food security experts from all over the world converged in Belfast this week (May 28-31) for a major summit on...

Police hunting for arsonists after fires break out at Greenmount
Police hunting for arsonists after fires break out at Greenmount

Police in Antrim are appealing for information following two suspected arson incidents at Greenmount Campus last night (Wednesday, May 30,...

GrassCheck: Contractors reel in bumper first cut as growth spurt continues
GrassCheck: Contractors reel in bumper first cut as growth spurt continues

Northern Ireland’s grass growth has been almost off the chart this week, as a combination of sunshine and light rain...

‘Contractors are nearly begging people to go work for them’
‘Contractors are nearly begging people to go work for them’

Conditions may be ideal for grass cutting across the country, yet contractors are seriously struggling to find tractor drivers to...

Was this Balmoral’s beefiest ‘beast’?
Was this Balmoral’s beefiest ‘beast’?

No; it’s not an optical illusion – this monstrous tracked CAT (Caterpillar) may well have been the beefiest beast you’d...

Sprawling machinery event draws a crowd…but is all about just one brand
Sprawling machinery event draws a crowd…but is all about just one brand

Amatechnica, a bi-annual show displaying all things Amazone – big and small, took place at the company’s headquarters in Germany...

Trade focus: Manufacturing in Meath…no machine too big or too small
Trade focus: Manufacturing in Meath…no machine too big or too small

Ireland is currently enjoying a small industrial renaissance; certainly in the agricultural sector where there are many small and medium-sized...

Trade focus: Family-owned German giant marries big machines and ‘big data’
Trade focus: Family-owned German giant marries big machines and ‘big data’

We may never hear it said publicly, but there is a growing awareness within the trade that the agricultural machinery...

Open day planned at NI’s first RamCompare flock
Open day planned at NI’s first RamCompare flock

Northern farm research body AgriSearch is set to host a farm walk explaining the results of pioneering commercial progeny study,...

Check out this cool compressor set up to pull pints
Check out this cool compressor set up to pull pints

It might have been hiding among the latest gadgets and machinery at Balmoral Show – but you won’t find this...

‘On cloud 9’: Surprise at Balmoral as Shorthorn clinches dairy interbreed
‘On cloud 9’: Surprise at Balmoral as Shorthorn clinches dairy interbreed

Tongues were wagging in the dairy lines about the surprise winner of this year’s Balmoral Show dairy interbreed championship. It’s...

Trade focus: ‘Self-propelled foragers are great for maize, but not always best for grass’
Trade focus: ‘Self-propelled foragers are great for maize, but not always best for grass’

It has been six years now since Pottinger brought the distribution of its products in Ireland back in-house. The move...

Young man killed in Fermanagh named
Young man killed in Fermanagh named

The young man killed in Co. Fermanagh earlier this week has been named locally as 17-year-old Neil Edward Graham of...

Young man killed in Fermanagh named
Young man killed in Fermanagh named

The young man killed in Co. Fermanagh earlier this week has been named locally as 17-year-old Neil Edward Graham of...

Young man killed in Fermanagh named
Young man killed in Fermanagh named

The young man killed in Co. Fermanagh earlier this week has been named locally as 17-year-old Neil Edward Graham of...

Young man killed in Fermanagh named
Young man killed in Fermanagh named

The young man killed in Co. Fermanagh earlier this week has been named locally as 17-year-old Neil Edward Graham of...

NI farmers call for no ban on live exports
NI farmers call for no ban on live exports

There must be no ban on live exports from the UK, according to the Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU). The comments...

NI farmers call for no ban on live exports
NI farmers call for no ban on live exports

There must be no ban on live exports from the UK, according to the Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU). The comments...