Agri-Business
Video: Pottinger 4-rotor rake in Co. Cork keeps the harvester happy
Should you happen to have 1,000hp or so burbling away in your forage harvester, then you would naturally wish for...
Machinery Focus
Agri-Business
Machinery Focus: Switching to liquid fertiliser with self-propelled SAM sprayer
With the dramatic increase in fertiliser costs, the spotlight has been turned on its efficient use like never before, and...
Agri-Business
Machinery Focus: Belt rakes, tractors and UTVs at Balmoral Show
With shows now thankfully being held again, Balmoral has once more taken its place as the main event at which...
Agri-Business
Machinery Focus: Goodyear finds alternative to oil-based rubber
Tyres are made of rubber and rubber comes from trees, and so it might be thought that they are one...
Machinery
Machinery Focus: Bi Som Trac - the top tandem tractor from France
The Bi Som Trac is hardly as well known as the Doe Triple-D from Essex, but this French built machine...
Agri-Business
Machinery Focus: Prepping a Kverneland mower for spring
April is here and in just a few short weeks the farm mower will once again be busy on the...
Agri-Business
Machinery Focus: Birth of the Massey Ferguson 100 series
There is a general agreement that the Harry Ferguson tractors of the post-war era were the most influential tractors ever...
Agri-Business
Machinery Focus: Mushrooms and fast horses – the growing technology gap
Machinery manufacturers, especially the larger ones, are highly adept at filling journalists inboxes with press releases promising all sorts of...
Agri-Business
Machinery Focus: Sweden – a land of saints and Volvos
Saints are very much in the mind in terms of Ireland's patron saint, but it is worth remembering another fellow...
N.Ireland
Machinery Focus: Video – Kuhn’s answer to complete diet feeding
With the onset of the spring calving season dairy farms are busy places with not only the rush of young...
Machinery
Speed dating for ISOBUS engineers at Plugfest 2022
ISO 11783 is hardly the most seductive phrase to woo potential partners with, but in the world of ISOBUS, it...
Agri-Business
Machinery Focus: Farmall - the first 100 years
If the Fordson was the major innovation that brought mechanisation to farming, it was the International Farmall which picked up...
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...
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,...
Machinery
Machinery Focus: CASE IH updates to tractors and loaders
The Farmall C series of tractors has always been targeted at the more modest sized farm, or those with jobs...
Agri-Business
Machinery Focus: Clearing a maize crop grown ‘plastic free’
It was the desire to get away from planting under plastic that led Pat Kinsella to take a long hard...
Agri-Business
Machinery Focus: Video – real time silage analysis from John Deere
John Deere, like all mainstream manufacturers, is investing heavily in digital technology and proudly markets its electronic wares as being...
