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Review: Amazone single-disc coulters offers top-class accuracy
Peter Thomas Keaveney
Peter Thomas Keaveney put the latest Amazone Centeya Super 3m drill and disc harrow combo through its paces.
Review: Amazone single-disc coulters offers top-class accuracy
Roscommon contractor celebrates 50 years of lime spreading
19 March 2025 Farm machinery
Roscommon contractor celebrates 50 years of lime spreading
Peter Thomas Keaveney travelled to Elphin in Co Roscommon to catch up with Padraig Berine who was busy spreading lime, now his 50th year at the job.
Telematics: the key to farm efficiency
19 March 2025 Farm machinery
Telematics: the key to farm efficiency
Fergal O Sullivan* looks at the role of telematics and how it can help both contractors, farmers and machinery dealers improve efficiency by gathering real time data and monitor in field performance.
Farmers supply over 70% of the diesel we use — Antrim contractor
Peter Thomas Keaveney caught up with Darragh Rutledge from Rutledge Contracts who tells us about his contracting enterprise and newly established machinery retail business, focusing on slurry.
19 March 2025 Farm machinery
Kverneland replaces DA and S drill
Kverneland has introduced a new generation of one-pass mounted seed drills, replacing the popular DA and S drill models which ceased production last December.
5 March 2025 Farm machinery
French retrofit MX loader is 'bulletproof' for Irish contractor
Midlands-based Louis Russell took delivery of the first U500 series MX loader sold in Ireland over 12 months ago. Peter Thomas Keaveney reports.
5 March 2025 Farm machinery
An integrated approach with Claas connect
Claas has brought all machine management, service planning, licence management, application maps and more to a single, cloud-based platform, writes Gary Abbott.
5 March 2025 Farm machinery
Finding a niche market in budget-friendly equipment
Based in the heart of the golden vale, Clontrac is a business that has cut out a niche market supplying budget friendly attachments, Fergal O Sullivan caught up with Thomas O’Dea to find out more.
5 March 2025 Farm machinery
Manitou 2100V - a steer in the right direction
As the first of Manitou’s new V-Series skid steers arrive into Ireland, Gary Abbott had the opportunity to try out the 2100V model from the brand new compact loader series.
26 February 2025 Farm machinery
Loncin XWolf 550 packs a punch at a reasonable price
Gary Abbott recently put the price-competitive, Chinese-built Loncin XWolf 550 quad to the test to see how it performs against its more costly competitors.
19 February 2025 Farm machinery
Busy Gator clocks up over 400km weekly on Cavan suckler farm
Clocking up over 400km weekly, Gary Abbott met with Cavan suckler farmer, Jimmy Carroll to find out why he retired his old farm jeep for a top-spec John Deere Gator in 2019.
19 February 2025 Farm machinery
New Arion 570 tops four-pot offering at 180hp
Claas has introduced its largest four-cylinder tractor yet with the arrival of the new flagship 180hp Arion 570 CMatic model.
12 February 2025 Farm machinery