Machinery
Why not personalise your tractor tyre - with your own name or logo?
Tyre giant Trelleborg is set to unveil a new online service – namely YourTire – at Agritechnica 2017. This will...
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Machinery
A first for chainsaws: Rev up with electronic fuel injection
Just in case you thought power tools and the like were immune from the technical wizardry that’s commonplace on modern...
Machinery
Zetor set to unveil new smaller, basic-spec tractors - up to 70hp
Zetor will unveil two new tractor line-ups at Agritechnica later this month. The new Utilix and Hortus ranges will compete in...
Dairy
Butter bubble: ‘If someone wanted to lock in a contract at €7,000 we’ll have a celebration’
Current butter prices are unlikely to last, the head of one of Ireland’s biggest milk processors has warned. “If someone...
Machinery
It's all in a name - machinery specialist sets out its vision
Dewulf-Miedema – full-liner in potato and root crop machinery – has chosen Dewulf as its new official company name. This...
Machinery
Video: Is this the best way to load and carry wrapped bales?
Andersons Group – from Quebec, Canada – will shortly launch what it describes as a “unique bale collecting trailer”. It...
Machinery
'Fast' tractor testing up for discussion at stakeholder meeting
Stakeholders are set to meet later today to discuss issues surrounding the road-worthiness testing of tractors with a maximum design...
N.Ireland
Farm antibiotic sales hit 'all time low' in the UK
Antibiotic usage fell by more than a quarter in the UK over 2016, the latest figures show. Over the same...
N.Ireland
Farm antibiotic sales hit ‘all time low’ in the UK
Antibiotic usage fell by more than a quarter in the UK over 2016, the latest figures show. Over the same...
Machinery
6-row Grimme beet giant is one of a kind in Northern Ireland
Not so long ago the Irish sugar beet industry was booming. People of my age will most likely remember the...
Machinery
6-row Grimme beet giant is one of a kind in Northern Ireland
Not so long ago the Irish sugar beet industry was booming. People of my age will most likely remember the...
N.Ireland
Farmer fined after 14-year-old involved in slurry accident
A Co. Tyrone farmer has been fined £1,000 (€1,138) today, after a slurry accident saw a teenage casual employee fall unconscious...
N.Ireland
Farmer fined after 14-year-old involved in slurry accident
A Co. Tyrone farmer has been fined £1,000 (€1,138) today, after a slurry accident saw a teenage casual employee fall unconscious...
N.Ireland
TB update: Chief vet says 'better surveillance' pushing up TB incidence rates
TB rates in the North have hit their worst in more than a decade, according to the latest DAERA figures,...
Machinery
Latest-generation Claas Jaguar hits Ireland - but how does it affect the bottom line?
Having been on tour all over the UK, a latest-generation ‘demo’ Claas Jaguar 970 forage harvester popped up here in Ireland...
Rural Life
Premium machinery destroyed in massive blaze in Co. Roscommon
Machinery, worth hundreds of thousands of euros, has been destroyed in a major fire at a contractor’s yard in Co....
Machinery
Farmhand espouses family values and state of independence
One of the last independent family-owned farm machinery distributors in the country, Farmhand is looking to expand its Damastown facility to...
Machinery
Auction report: Video, pics and prices from 'tidy' tractor and machinery sale
Major “on-site” machinery dispersal sale (auction) events come up just a handful of times in any given year here in...
