N.Ireland
Funk and Ford: A long and challenging relationship
The history of tractor development is littered with tales of inter company rivalry, devious plots and various happy coincidences, that...
Machinery
Machinery
Mid-range Massey Ferguson 5M tractors top out at 145hp
The Massey Ferguson 5M tractor range has been updated and is now topped out by a 145hp model, the 5M.145,...
N.Ireland
Kubota updates its flagship range with M7004 models
The Kubota M7 tractors are the largest in the company’s portfolio and 10 years after the introduction of this flagship...
Machinery
Kaweco tankers and loaders take a bow as factory closes
Royal Reesink is primarily a distributor of agricultural equipment throughout Europe and the rest of the world and is also...
N.Ireland
Michelin UltraFlex tyres for NH’s flagship combine
Michelin is launching two new CerexBib tyre sizes which have been specially designed for the New Holland CR11 combine harvester,...
Arable
Big drill for large farms from Lemken
The latest drill from Lemken is unashamedly aimed at the top end of the market where large-scale farmers have the...
N.Ireland
Vogelsang introduces lighter BlackBird booms
The advent of surface level slurry application led to large number of companies bringing their own boom designs to the...
N.Ireland
Burning Hen debut for Steyr Plus mid-range models
The Austrian Burning Hen Festival is promoted by its organisers as a focal point for everyone who wants to challenge...
Machinery
Irish Rovers vintage night to celebrate UK trip
Back in May a small group of vintage enthusiasts set off on a trip from John O’Groats to Lands End,...
Machinery
Machinery Focus: The Nuffield tractor in the golden era of sales
Lord Nuffield, or Wiliam Morris, First Viscount Nuffield, to give him his full title, is often regarded as Britain’s answer...
N.Ireland
New chopping cylinder option for the Claas Jaguar range
Having produced 46,000 self-propelled harvesters, Claas is entitled to think it has got a handle on the market, but that’s...
N.Ireland
John Deere under FTC investigation since 2021
Further to the attention being paid to its practices by Senator Elizabeth Warren, who has strongly criticised the company over...
Machinery
Disposal sale as Burdens Group closes its doors
It was back in July that the process of selling the Burdens Group’s four depots in Lincolnshire commenced, with Earnest...
N.Ireland
Autumn ploughing in Norway brings its own rewards
As the end of the year approaches, Norwegian farmers are out with the plough readying the fields for winter, for...
N.Ireland
New partner for haulm destruction pioneer Crop.Zone
A method of potato haulm destruction by electrical current that is presently undergoing development trials by Crop.Zone in the Netherlands,...
N.Ireland
Right to repair backed by US government agency
Despite the apparent victory of campaigners working to preserve the right to repair in America, John Deere has once more...
Machinery
Lemken opens mechanical crop care factory and forum
Traditional soil cultivation, as catered for by Lemken and others, has centred around the disruption of the soil structure to...
Machinery
AGCO fights back as TAFE takes to the courts again
The long-running quarrel between TAFE and AGCO had been rumbling along quietly in the background for some years but in...
