Rural Life
The Euroskills 2016 competition, for the ‘agricultural mechanic’ category, was held in Gothenburg, Sweden, back in December. One of 35...
Machinery
Danish machinery company, Timan, manufactures a novel tool carrier / mini-loader hybrid that is not a familiar sight in this country...
Cereals 2017 is one of the biggest trade shows in either Ireland or the UK specifically focused on the tillage sector....
N.Ireland
The Test and Vaccinate or Remove (TVR) Wildlife Intervention Research Project is to start today, June 19, in a 100km² area...
French firm Naio Technologies has developed its most recent agricultural robot specifically for larger vegetable growing set-ups – namely a weeding robot...
Dairy
Calf nutrition, health and environment are all critical to achieving an optimum lifetime performance of a dairy replacement heifer. That...
British agricultural equipment firm, Mzuri, unveiled its “revolutionary” new hedgecutter, the Razorback Auto-Level 550, at the Cereals 2017 event, which...
One of JCB’s main UK distributors will exhibit an array of brand new machines at the Royal Highland Show (RHS)....
A ‘new generation’ of agricultural tyre – the RoadBib – has been launched by tyre manufacturer Michelin. It, says the company,...
The ‘Farm Business Data 2017’ farm planning handbook has recently been published by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs...
Gerry Rabbitte has been appointed as the countrywide sales representative for Zetor tractors and Merlo telehandlers by machinery distributor McHale...
What is the most reliable tried-and-tested machinery for contracting? What works best on the ground? To answer these questions, AgriLand got...
Agri Politics
A single European system of rules is being sought by a combination of European ‘mobile machine’ manufacturers this week from...
Volvo has built self-steering trucks that are providing a boost in productivity to sugar cane farms in Brazil. The trucks...
Ken McNeal, a dairy farmer from Lisboduff in Co. Cavan, was the winner of AgriLand’s Farm Free Competition in 2016. As part...
According to CEMA (European Agricultural Machinery Industry), a recent European study has found that more than four fifths (83%) of...
The authorisation of new and replacement cattle tags in Northern Ireland has been temporarily suspended yet again by the Department of...
Barclay Bell, President of the Ulster Farmers’ Union in Northern Ireland, was speaking on RTE Radio’s This Week programme on...
