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Machinery
US tariffs to hit Irish machinery companies
Peter Thomas Keaveney
Peter Thomas Keaveney and Gary Abbott look at how the newly imposed US tariffs will affect some Irish machinery manufacturers.
9 April 2025 News
EU contractors arrive to salvage Irish timber
Harvesting machinery from Britain, Austria and Estonia is already in the process of being cleared to begin salvage work in Ireland.
9 April 2025 Dealer
Cooler heads emerge in tariff row
It's still early days for the Trump tariff regime, but resistance is emerging within his own Republican Party.
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€510,000 paid for Co Limerick farm
Climate and environment
Conflicted feelings: I complained about a local farmer spreading slurry
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€40m Chinese-backed meat factory back before An Bord Pleanála
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Ewe numbers fall by 94,477 head or 3.7% in 2024
Farm machinery
The Erth Panbuster: proven design gets modern tweak
Over 500 slurry fines for NI farmers in five years
The latest available figures show that 526 cross compliance breaches about slurry usage were found from 2019 to 2023
9 April 2025 Northern Ireland
Forestry contractors seek forest machine import ban
The FCI is urging the minister to deal with the post-storm Éowyn windblow with similar machines in the ownership of Irish forestry contractors that are currently idle.
9 April 2025 Forestry
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
In pictures: tractors and tankers top online auction
Three John Deere tractors and a variety of slurry tankers and muck spreaders went under the hammer last week, as part of a UK contractor sellout; a 2020 John Deere 6215R topped the sale at £71,000.
2 April 2025 News
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
Inspections to target machinery safety next week
In the five-year period between 2020 and 2024, 28 people were killed in vehicle-related incidents on farms, with 12 of those associated with tractors.
28 March 2025 News
News round-up from Northern Ireland
Weekly round-up of news from the farming industry in Northern Ireland.
26 March 2025 Northern Ireland
Agri-jobs: dairy and pig farm workers in demand
There are a number of opportunities in the dairy, pig and horticulture sectors if you’re in the market for a new job this week.
22 March 2025 News