Machinery
Machinery Focus: Understanding the devil of soil compaction
A great detail of attention is paid to the avoidance of soil compaction by machinery manufacturers, but just what is...
Machinery Focus
Agri-Business
Valmet and Massey Ferguson's first partnership
Today, Massey Ferguson and what is now Valtra are two tractor brands brought together by AGCO in 2004, but the...
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Watch: Offaly farmer makes big savings by 'going solar'
Imagine standing on your farm, knowing you have taken steps to secure its future. The sun is shining, not just...
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Machinery Focus: The farm roots of Caterpillar in its 100th year
2025 is the year that Caterpillar Inc., now universally referred to as CAT, celebrates its first 100 years in business....
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Brazil: The jewel in the South American tractor market
South America, especially Brazil, features strongly in most financial reports from the major manufacturing companies due to steady sales growth...
Machinery
Ballyragget hosts 'Light Up the Night' tractor run
It was a wet and miserable afternoon on New Year’s Eve, hardly the best weather for a tractor run, and...
Machinery
Kazakhstan and its quest for farm machinery factories
Kazakhstan is little known about over here in the west – it is a place we have all heard of,...
Machinery
SAME and the legacy of the Cassani brothers
There are various figures in the history of farm mechanisation that stand out from the crowd and are recognised as...
Agri-Business
CAD: The unsung hero of modern machinery
Machinery manufactures will wax lyrical about the wonders and miracles of the their digital systems with a growing emphasis on...
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RDS Announces Opening of Sustainable Agriculture & Rural Development Awards
In its sixth year, the RDS Sustainable Agriculture & Rural Development Awards celebrates the work of individuals, farming families and...
Machinery
Harry Ferguson and his ambitious plan for humankind
Henry George Ferguson was rarely accused of lacking ambition, for there was within him a desire to succeed, not in...
Machinery
AGCO sets out ambitious plans for future growth
Agco recently held an Analyst Meeting for shareholders and investors during which it set out its vision for the future....
Machinery
Machinery: The sad fall of David Brown tractors
Although we think of Ford and Massey Ferguson as being the big two brands in the 1950s and 1960s, David...
Machinery
Claas: Management unfazed by 19% fall in turnover
We are used to company reports, and especially the quarterly shareholder calls from the American corporations being full of grandiose...
Machinery
Will artificial intelligence ever drive tractors?
The large agricultural machinery manufactures have been getting greatly excited by the prospect of artificial intelligence (AI) and how it...
Machinery
Machinery: Why the Fordson won out in WW2
The late 1930s saw a heavy cloud hang over Britain as Germany made its intentions ever clearer, and those intentions...
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Opti-Skim trumps calf milk replacer with newest edition
Auctus has now launched the newest edition to its calf milk replacer product range. There are now seven calf milk...
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Norwegian ambassador visits Kverneland HQ in Kilkenny
Recently the Norwegian ambassador to Ireland, Aslak Brun, paid a visit to the Kverneland Group’s headquarters in Kilkenny, during which...
Machinery
NOx emissions dismissed from hydrogen debate
The review of the JCB’s ongoing attempts to get hydrogen accepted as an alternative fuel for internal combustion engines (ICE)...
Machinery
Omex to expand liquid fertiliser availability
There is a new approach to the application of fertiliser emerging and it is one that goes much further than...
Machinery
Machinery: JCB and its ongoing hydrogen battle
The search for an alternative fuel to power the world’s fleet of vehicles has taken many turns over the past...