A highly successful record as a sales, service and parts dealer for Landini tractors in the west of Ireland has been rewarded with an expansion of the territory covered by Pat Brogan Tractors. The family-run dealership based in Strokestown, Co. Roscommon already supplies new Landini tractors to farmers in counties Roscommon, Longford and Leitrim, but […]
Using a slurry testing kit and flow meter can save farmers up to £265 per hectare in fertilisers. “If you don’t know the nutrient value of your slurry and the rate it is being spread at then the financial savings and crop benefits are guess work,” says Terry Baker from slurry specialists Tramspread. A nitrogen […]
As IFA National Sheep Committee Chairman, Sean Dennehy is providing a strong voice both at home and abroad to Ireland’s 35,000 sheep farmers. We touched base with the affable Cork man to discuss some of the challenges facing the sheep sector at present and IFA’s work to address these issues. Elected to the National Sheep […]
Farmers and contractors are being offered the chance to upgrade their old John Deere StarFire iTC satellite receivers for the latest SF6000 guidance technology at a specially reduced price, from now up to the end of June 2020 (extended from the end of April). The introduction of the StarFire iTC receiver in 2004 established John […]
Celebrating 21 years in business, timber harvesting, clearfelling and thinning specialist Larke & Davis Timber recently took delivery of two state-of-the-art Ponsse machines which have been put to work at various Coillte-owned forests in Co. Mayo. Owner Tony Davis travelled to Emo, Co. Laois to purchase the new Ponsse Cobra harvester and Ponsse Wisent forwarder from Ponsse Machines Ireland. The investment in the new […]
The Hartpury Agri-Tech Centre has launched a new initiative to support agri-tech businesses and food producers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Hartpury Agri-Tech Talk Week (11-17 May) will provide the agriculture community with a platform to share their views, discuss the latest Government support packages and find out how the high-tech facility can help their businesses. […]
One of Ireland’s leading strawberry growers is Jimmy Kearns of Kearns Fruit Farm near Enniscorthy. Thrust into the family business at an early age following the sudden death of his father, it has been a way of life for him for almost 50 years. Jimmy was in his early teens when he lost both of […]
JCB’s two market-leading agricultural wheeled loaders – the 419S and 435S – have yet more performance and productivity to offer large farms and contract silage-harvesting operators thanks to significant increases in power and torque from their new engines. The loaders continue to use a six-speed powershift transmission with extra-low first gear for exceptional pushing performance […]
Thinking of investing in a new farm building? If so, the advice from the Irish Association of Steel Fabricators (IASF), or Irish Steel as it’s more commonly known, is to make sure your steel comes from a fabricator that is a certified supplier of CE marked structural steel to the requirements of EN-1090. Since 2014, […]
Average national land prices fell by 6% year on year in 2019 driven in the main by a decrease in the prices for dairy, beef and cereals. The Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland / Teagasc Agricultural Land Market Review and Outlook Report 2020 found the average price of an acre nationally without a residence was […]
