Based in Castlebellingham, Co Louth, Hoey Parts & Plant Sales has become well-known for its excellent service and quality products on offer. Irish Tractor & Agri heard all about the business from the store’s co-manager Aidan Matthews recently. Hoey Parts & Plant Sales was set-up in 1984 by Tom Hoey and has since grown into […]
Czech tractor manufacturer, Zetor has announced completion of what it terms a ‘comprehensive market assessment and reorganisation’ and is poised to set the brand on what Nigel Wilson, their Sales Director for UK and Ireland, says will be ‘a new and more progressive path’. Foreseeing what they believe will be a ‘high opportunity’ for Zetor […]
Owned by the US-based Feeney brothers, the Bostonia Charolais Herd is one of Ireland’s most-prestigious pedigree herds. We visited their pristine Scurmore Pedigree Farm on the Moy Estuary in County Sligo and had a chat with farm manager Niall Hynes to find out more. Ideally located in Scurmore, County Sligo, on Ireland’s picturesque North Western […]
Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health, manufacturer of Bovikalc® and Bovikalc® Dry, has launched its National Milk Fever (hypocalcaemia) Survey to capture the opinions of farmers and their on-farm experiences of the condition. Farmers are being encouraged to share their knowledge to fill in some of the gaps that still exist on the impact of milk fever […]
Family run Ag-tech company TERRA NutriTECH is one of just ten companies from around the world to be selected for the prestigious Pearse Lyons Accelerator Programme. The company will pitch to more than 3,000 attendees from over 70 countries on Monday 20th May in Kentucky, including some of the premier global leaders in the agriculture sector. […]
Utilising a fleet of three forwarders and three harvesters, Lynch Harvesting Ltd. – which celebrates its 21st anniversary this year – provides exceptional thinning and clearfell services across counties Leitrim, Cavan and Roscommon. We touched base with founder / proprietor Tommy Lynch to find out more about this superb operation. County Leitrim is beautiful but […]
Tipperary native Sean Hayden currently runs one of Ireland’s only herds of Stabiliser cattle. He’s also been the Premier County’s ICSA chairman for more than a year now, so Irish Tractor & Agri felt it was time to catch up with and hear from the man himself. These have been a busy past few years […]
There was delight for brothers John and Chris Fortune at the 2018 Origin Green Farmer Awards ceremony in the Heritage Killenard Hotel, Co. Laois on December 12 last when their company, Kilmore Potatoes Ltd, won the potato category in recognition of their excellence in sustainable production. Competing in a very strong category in which just […]
Castleblayney, Co Monaghan based Wilson Developments is widely recognised as one of the leading agricultural construction companies in their catchment area and beyond. Irish Tractor & Agri caught up with Clayton Wilson to find out why their services are very much in demand at this point in time. Established by brothers Clayton and Dale Wilson […]
At just 21 years of age, Alex Butler from Streete in Co. Westmeath was the youngest finalist in the 2018 Zurich Farm Insurance Farming Independent Farmer of the Years Awards. Shortlisted in the Tillage category, the judges were hugely impressed by his forward-thinking methods and expanding enterprise. One of the highlights of the farming year, […]
