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Inspections to target machinery safety next week
Amy Forde
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.
26 March 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.
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
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
Spring in the air at Omagh machinery sale
David Clarke reports from a farm machinery sale held by Pollock Auctions in Omagh on Saturday 1 March.
12 March 2025 Northern Ireland
Väderstad Group sales take a 13% hit in 2024
Väderstad recorded a turnover of around €550 million in 2024, which was down 13% on the firms record 2023 turnover.
5 March 2025 News
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
Kverneland Group Ireland appoints new dealer in east Cork
Kverneland Group Ireland has just appointed Ryalls Farm & Industrial Equipment as main agents for its full range of implements.
26 February 2025 News