N.Ireland
Spring Farm Machinery shows return for 2022
The AJS Spring Farm Machinery Shows are returning to the agricultural show calendar this year, for the first time since...
Machinery
Machinery
Machinery Focus: To plough or not plough?
10 years ago, researchers at Harper Adams University in Shropshire in the UK set out on a long-term project to...
Machinery
£25m Improving Farm Productivity scheme opens
Farmers and growers in England can apply for up to £500,000 in government funding from today, January 19, to invest...
Machinery
New wallet-friendly utility series from Kubota
We have reached a point in tractor evolution where those models in the 100-150hp bracket are now termed utility tractors,...
Machinery
EMotive to go head to head with the Unimog
Bringing electrical power to off-road vehicles is proving somewhat problematic, yet EMotive is one company that is preparing to take...
Machinery
Surplus and vintage equipment to be auctioned by Cheffins
Cheffins will make a welcome return to holding live auctions with two sales, one of surplus equipment and the other...
Agri-Business
Tobroco-Giant to build Doosan’s new loader range
Tobroco-Giant is a Dutch engineering company that was started by Toine Brock 26 years ago in his parents' stables at...
Agri-Business
Machinery Focus: New chapter for gantry farming from Nexat
The only gold medal awarded in the 2021 DLG Innovation Awards went to a relatively obscure German company by the...
Agri-Business
Extra muscle for the Unimog
At the end of the 75th anniversary year of the Unimog, Mercedes-Benz Trucks blessed its range of off-road 4X4 vehicles...
Agri-Business
Autonomous farming made real by John Deere
In a press conference that was as replete with symbolism and cliches as it was hard facts, John Deere made...
Agri-Business
International Harvester’s Neuss factory – an untold tale
The bright red and cream colours of Neuss built International Harvester tractors were once a common sight on fields across...
Agri-Business
Machinery Focus: Keeping the MF flag flying in Donegal
Machinery sales have experienced a good year, of that there is no doubt, and the sales keep coming according to...
Agri-Business
Machinery: Georges Latil and the constant velocity joint
Latil, an obscure French tractor maker that, apart from selling a few machines to the ESB in the distant past,...
Machinery
Agri contractor’s retirement sale raises £3.1m
The decision by Charles Baker, a well-known UK farming contractor, to step back from the business saw the machines and...
Machinery
Machinery Focus: An extensive Lanz collection in Co. Kerry
Quite what spurs somebody to gather together a collection of any one particular type or genre of tractor is often...
Machinery
Lemken combines mechanical weed control and herbicide spraying
Herbicide application rates within vegetable crops can be reduced substantially through the use of mechanical weed control between rows while...
Agri-Business
Machinery Focus photo review: The past, people and places
The end of the the year brings a certain wistfulness to the mind as reflections upon the past 12 months...
Machinery
Machinery Focus: How Valmet became Valtra – a Nordic tale
Valmet is a name that sounds vaguely familiar to many, most are aware of it as the precursor to Valtra,...
