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Manufacturing the Merlo way
Gary Abbott
Gary Abbott recently travelled to Merlo’s headquaters in Italy to find out more about the brands manufacturing process – where over 90% of components are built in-house.
Manufacturing the Merlo way
Classic kit busy sowing in the southeast
9 April 2025 Farm machinery
Classic kit busy sowing in the southeast
Peter Thomas Keaveney caught up with Wexford farmer Frank Cardiff, to talk about his fleet of well-maintained classic machinery
Are silage compactors the next big thing in making quality forage?
2 April 2025 Farm machinery
Are silage compactors the next big thing in making quality forage?
Peter Thomas Keaveney speaks to farmers and contractors running mounted silage compactors to see are they worth the investment, and are they the coming trend in making top-quality silage.
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Antrim farmer with a love for trailed foragers
Peter Thomas Keaveney catches up with Antrim dairy farmer Neil Hoey, whose family has been cutting their own silage for five decades.
2 April 2025 Farm machinery
Kilkenny contractor gaining 30% capacity with Kompactor
One year on from moving to their first HiSpec Kompactor silage trailer, Peter Thomas Keaveney catches up with Kilkenny contractors Bryne Agri and Plant to find out how the trailer worked out
2 April 2025 Farm machinery
Maintaining and driving the Krone Big X
Munster Technological University Agricultural engineering lecturer, Fergal O’Sullivan speaks to Ciaran Roche, a specialist on Krone Big X harvesters, about getting the machines ready for silage season
2 April 2025 Farm machinery
Review: Amazone single-disc coulters offers top-class accuracy
Peter Thomas Keaveney put the latest Amazone Centeya Super 3m drill and disc harrow combo through its paces.
26 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.
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.
19 March 2025 Farm machinery
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