An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar TD, visited Drinagh Co-Op on Friday 20 July to officially open a new €3.75 million Feed Mill Extension. Founded in 1923, Drinagh Co-Op is a dairy and agribusiness co-operative based in the heart of West Cork. The Co-Op services 550 milk producers, with a total annual production of 190 million litres […]
This is what René Coppens, Program Director Vital Pig Farming Rabobank, said on Tuesday morning 3 July 2018 at the ratification of the investment fund between Rabobank, MS Schippers and Van Loon Group. Through these collaboration, pig farmers are offered financial support in their transition to HyCare. The investment fund offers the opportunity to make […]
Sherwood Farms in Melton Mowbray – the UK’s first farmer to specify a tractor on Michelin’s new AxioBib 2 tyres – is reportedly noticing the soil protection benefits of the Ultraflex technology fitments after just 300 hours operation. Working an arable farm that produces wheat, barley and oilseed rape, director, James Parker’s Fendt 724 tractor […]
John Deere has signed an agreement to cooperate with Pessl Instruments GmbH, a leading supplier of agricultural weather stations, telemetry and other equipment for precision farming. John Deere has a strong, well-established European dealer network and offers an extensive range of agricultural machinery equipped with AMS (Agricultural Management Solutions) technology. Under this partnership John Deere’s […]
A tracked version of the innovative Teleskid has been introduced by JCB to handle loading and re-handling tasks in farming and forestry where conditions underfoot are delicate or especially demanding. The Teleskid 3TS-8T is unique among compact tracked loaders in having a telescopic boom that adds to the machine’s capabilities and performance envelope. It has […]
Mart Smolders, Pig Division Manager at MS Schippers, took traders along with him into the world of integral hygiene on pig farms. With the HyCare approach, pig quality will improve without using any of those pricey jars. “Hygiene specialists will take over the top spot as the most important consultant to the pig farmer in […]
A prominent farmer and contractor in York has credited Michelin’s CargoXBib High Flotation tyres with vastly improving the efficiency of its operation. The 650/55 R26.5 tyres will now be fitted to a further two Stewart trailers run by crop farmers Wharram and Kay, following a trial during which co-owner Roger Kay noticed additional benefits with […]
For the first time, the DLG (German Agricultural Society) will offer an information platform for those interested in organic farming at this year’s DLG-Feldtage. The new Organic Farming special feature will be centered on organically managed areas of the DLG’s International Crop Production Center, at Bernburg, Germany, where the 2018 DLG-Feldtage takes place from 12 […]
Featuring the new PowrSpray solution system, a larger 5000-litre capacity spray tank and an ultra-lightweight but extremely strong carbon fibre boom, John Deere’s R4050i self-propelled sprayer will be demonstrated for the first time in the Sprays & Sprayers arena at Cereals 2018. Able to spray at widths of 18 or 36m, the high-performance spray boom […]
Siobhán Talbot, the Managing Director of Glanbia, is the inaugural winner of The Irish Times Business Person of the Year Award. Ms Talbot was one of 11 winners of The Irish Times Business Person of the Month Awards which were launched last May and who was eligible for the overall award. The purpose of the […]
