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Machinery
More than 40,000 watch Tipperary contractor auction grossing €1.1m
Peter Thomas Keaveney
Over 40,000 machinery enthusiasts and 2,500 active bidders took part in a Tipperary contractors’ online retirement dispersal auction, where 134 lots were offered with the sale grossing €1.4m.
7 November 2024 News
Tillage Day: 1 October a ‘backstop’ date for slurry spreading
The slurry spreading dates are there for a reason - they’re there to protect water quality, Barry O'Reilly from the Department of Agriculture has said.
6 November 2024 Farm machinery
Self-taught midlands tech guru repairing all things electronic
Steve Sherwood has become a specialist in the art of repairing machine terminals and interfaces and all things electronic for the agricultural machinery sector. Fergal O’Sullivan reports.
Christmas tractor run
St Catherine’s juvenile GAA club in Cork has a tractor run in the diary for Saturday 21 December.
6 November 2024 Dealer
Farmer Writes: the tillage sector is very far from dead
While I greatly respect smaller farmers (probably more than I do the titans), I’m excited by this revolution in new, bigger and better farm machinery.
6 November 2024 News
My Farming Week: Eoghan O’Sullivan, Soloheadbeg, Co Tipperary
Organic oat grower and suckler farmer Eoghan O’Sullivan recently won the Flahavan's organic oat grower of the year award.
6 November 2024 News
Over 130 lots up for grabs at Tipperary contractor retirement auction
Michael Doyle Auctioneers is set to host a retirement machinery dispersal auction on Wednesday 13 November on behalf of contractors Sheehan Brothers Enterprises Limited in Clonmel, Co Tipperary.
6 November 2024 News
Young Stock Podcast: moving from sales to setting up your own machinery business
On this week’s Young Stock Podcast, Peter Thomas Keaveney speaks with Armagh man Neale Spence, who has gone from a sales role to establishing his own machinery retail business.
5 November 2024 News
What farmers want from the next Government
Ahead of the general election, we asked farmers in Clare, Tipperary and Roscommon what farming issues they would be highlighting to politicians that might come knocking on their doors.
30 October 2024 News
‘Tonnes you cut are never the tonnes you’re paid for’
Peter Thomas Keaveney travelled to Laois to catch up with forestry contractor Damien Brophy.
30 October 2024 Farm machinery
Seppi gives old Christmas tree plantation new lease of life
Peter Thomas Keaveney travelled to the midlands to catch up with Ireland’s largest multifunctional tiller-mulcher, as it reclaimed 106 acres of an old Christmas tree plantation back into grassland.
30 October 2024 Farm machinery
Farmers urged to report giant hogweed infestations
That was the message from a Farming for Water EIP meeting held in Cappawhite, Co Tipperary last Thursday evening, 24 October about the non-native plant which poses a threat to human health.
30 October 2024 News