FTMTA news round-up

New salesman at Farmec

FTMTA member firm Farmec Ireland Ltd is pleased to announce the appointment of Matt Ferguson to the position of area sales manager with the company. Matt brings a wealth of technical and marketing experience to Farmec through his background in both retail sales management with New Holland dealer Ardagh Services and with a dealer network at Lely Ireland.

Farmec Ireland is the Irish importer and distributor for a wide range of high-quality farm and amenity machinery including Bargam sprayers, Sulky fertiliser spreaders, seed drills, power harrows, MX loaders, bale-handling equipment, SIP mowers, tedders, rakes, Twose hedge cutters, FALC flail mowers, cultivation machinery and AerWay aerators.

Matt will work together with the full Farmec team to support and expand the company’s nationwide professional dealer network. Garry Daly, sales director at Farmec, said: “I have known Matt for a number of years. We are really pleased to have him on the team and I am fully confident that he will provide a valuable support to our dealer network and make a major contribution to the company.’’

Matt added: “I had a really good experience selling Farmec products when I was with Ardagh Services. The company represents large, well-established manufacturers of high-quality equipment, which provides cover for each season of the year and I am looking forward to developing the business with the dealer network in the future.”

Matt can be contacted on 087-168 8455. Further details are available from Farmec Ireland Ltd by phoning 01-825 9289 or emailing info@farmec.ie.

FTMTA Grass & Muck 2018

Full details of FTMTA Grass & Muck, which will return to Gurteen College near Birr on Thursday 17 May 2018 have been issued by email to all those firms who had registered an interest in advance as well as to all exhibitors at this year’s FTMTA Farm Machinery Show and FTMTA Grass & Muck 2016. The exhibitor application pack for non-members of FTMTA can now be downloaded from www.ftmta.ie.

FTMTA has previously announced that, working in conjunction with the host college, it will be possible to provide an additional 15 acres of grass working plots at next year’s event, bringing the total grass demo area to nearly 100 acres.

The increased grass demo area will make it possible to facilitate new working demonstrations, as well as allowing for larger demonstrations from previous exhibitors. It will also be possible to increase the size of the trade village area significantly. In keeping with the FTMTA ethos for both Grass & Muck and the FTMTA Farm Machinery Show, only stands from genuinely agricultural focused businesses will be excepted.

Further details can be obtained by contacting the FTMTA office on 045-409309 or at admin@ftmta.ie.