As far as the prerequisites of providing top-class agricultural contracting solutions goes, Drennan Agri Contractors ticks all the boxes: exceptional fleet, quality service, passion and enthusiasm – all backed up by decades of experience. We caught up with John Drennan at his Cullohill, County Laois base to discuss the history, current status and future plans […]
With farmers in Ireland getting an increasingly-raw deal and family farms under greater threat than ever, Wicklow IFA chairman Tom Shortt is doing all in his power to give more control back to the primary producer – the most important link in the food chain. We met up with the Newtownmountkennedy tillage farmer to discuss […]
The McVerry family have been in dairy for over 50 years. Patsy McVerry and his son Michael milk approximately 320 cows in Whitecross, Co. Armagh and supply to Town of Monaghan Co-Op. Dairy is the main type of farming carried out in the Whitecross area and the McVerry’s have been at it since circa 1900. […]
Vincent Cannon & Co Ltd are fully committed to providing the highest quality quarry products. We dropped into the company base at Masonbrook, Loughrea, County Galway to get an insight into the long and illustrious history and current activities of the successful family business through the eyes of one of the company directors Padraig Cannon. […]
From humble beginnings, G&A Hanrahan Ltd has grown into one of the midlands’ leading agricultural contracting firms. As well as providing a complete agri contracting service, the family-run business specialises in precast products. Ger Hanrahan is different to 99.9 per cent of agricultural contractors in that he wasn’t born into a farming family. He attributes […]
Established in 1904, Mountbellew Agricultural College was Ireland’s first agricultural college. One-hundred-and-eleven years on, the County Galway based facility is still going strong, enjoying key ties with GMIT and Teagasc. We met up with principal Tom Burke to get an insight into the courses on offer, the continued excellence of this famed institute, and the […]
The MAJOR Slurry Info Day was held on Friday December 11th at the MAJOR depot in Ballyhaunis. The event was organised in response to customers’ requests for more information about the changes facing Irish farmers from GLAS and TAMS II schemes. Applications for these schemes have been submitted already, but many farmers and contractors were […]
New Holland will use LAMMA 2016 to present its newest machinery to its largest audience yet. Following a successful launch at Agritechnica and subsequent customer and dealer days, the New Holland stand at LAMMA will host its newest tractor, combine and forage harvester among an impressive 17-model line-up of the company’s machinery range. The award […]
New Holland has launched its new Heavy Duty T7.290 and T7.315 tractors to customers and dealers at a Heavy Metal-themed event at its Basildon manufacturing facility. The new T7.315 model was revealed in appropriately dramatic rock fashion. Accompanied by rock music and a smoke and light show, it was the climax of New Holland’s Heavy […]
At LAMMA, CLAAS will be displaying a completely new crop processor, the MCC SHREDLAGE, which provides another major step forward in crop processing technology and has been proven to increase milk yield by up to 2.0 litres a cow, so boosting revenue, and to enable output from home-grown forage to be maximised without the need […]
