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 […]
John Deere’s flagship 9620RX tractor and 8800i self-propelled forage harvester, range-topping 6155R tractor, PowrSpray solution system for R900i Series trailed sprayers and both entry level W-Series and redesigned T-Series combine harvesters are among the new machines for 2016 being featured for the first time on the John Deere stand at LAMMA in January, following their initial European […]
For most farmers, milking 400 cows would be too big a task. Not so for Co. Antrim brothers Pat and Vincent McKavanagh of Caldhame Farms, who also are agricultural contractors and the people behind Greenacre Composting. Following in their father Vincent and grandfather Daniel’s footsteps, Pat and Vincent farm approximately 1,250 acres at Nutts Corner, […]
Horse trainers are a rare breed and more to the point successful horse trainers are a scarce commodity as it is not easy to gain success in this game. However, there are the few that have led the way over the years and as often as not, a new trainer emerges on the scene every […]
The summer months are upon us and in the farming community that generally means one thing, time to harvest some fodder for their cattle. Whether it be hay, silage or crops, farmers and more so, agricultural contractors are focused on getting the job done and given the unpredictable nature of the Irish weather, time is […]
