Agriland Team

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...

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...

Glanbia Cheese announces changes – and bonuses – to NI milk payment policy
Glanbia Cheese announces changes – and bonuses – to NI milk payment policy

Glanbia Cheese has announced a number of changes to its milk payment policy – including a new ‘Mozzarella Cheese Quality...

Tractor run in aid of a great cause this weekend
Tractor run in aid of a great cause this weekend

A charity tractor run is set to make tracks for a great cause this Sunday, May 27, in Co. Offaly....

NI livestock worrying and dog attacks ‘at record levels’
NI livestock worrying and dog attacks ‘at record levels’

A database of dog DNA needs to be established in Northern Ireland to help identify those dogs responsible for worrying...

Classic corner: Two ex-army sibling tractors spotted in Co. Offaly
Classic corner: Two ex-army sibling tractors spotted in Co. Offaly

BM Volvo tractors are not at all common here in Ireland. As far as is known they were never imported directly,...

New president appointed at Moy Park
New president appointed at Moy Park

Chris Kirke was today appointed as president of Moy Park by the firm’s parent company Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation. Kirke succeeds...

NI agri firm increases international reach
NI agri firm increases international reach

UPU Industries, the Dromore-based crop packaging specialist, has secured a number of new international contracts, the firm has announced. Manufacturing...

Trade focus: The tractor ‘trapped’ in Kerry that trades parts to the world
Trade focus: The tractor ‘trapped’ in Kerry that trades parts to the world

“It’s only a mannequin really,” noted Colm Clifford – describing the Massey Ferguson 240 tractor (pictured above) that sits proudly...

Public appeal for information following overnight break-in and farm theft
Public appeal for information following overnight break-in and farm theft

A Co. Tyrone farmer is appealing for information following a break-in on his farm and the theft of his machinery...