Suirway is top Pottinger dealer

Suirway Farm Machinery from Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary, has been selected at the Pottinger dealer of the year for Ireland for 2014. The company, run by James Coleman, has sold more Pottinger wagons in 2014 than all of the other dealers combined.

Wheelock is new Bednar tillage equipment rep

Bednar Farm Machinery from the Czech Republic, formerly Strom equipment, is now represented in Ireland by Andrew Wheelock from Co Wexford. Strom director Ladislav Bednar bought out the firm and renamed it Bednar Farm Machinery.

Bednar supplies machines to New Zealand, Australia, Canada, USA, mainland Europe, the UK and Ireland. Andrew Wheelock has recently appointed Kearney Brothers, Acres, Fermoy, Cork as his first dealer.

The most recent addition to the Bednar range is the Omega seed drill in sizes from 3m to 8m. Bednar also manufactures various types and combinations of tined and disc cultivators, chisel ploughs, rotary cutters (toppers) from 2.5-metres upwards and trailers.

Contact Andrew on 087-2864251. Website is www.bednar-machinery.com

Challenger’s new tillage machines

Challenger, the AGCO brand best known for the rubber-tracked Challenger tractors, has introduced two larger disc harrow models to the European market. Challenger claims that the CH1700 offset disc harrows with folding frame features one of the heaviest disc weights in the industry. The harrows are designed for primary tillage, residue/chemical incorporation and land reclamation.

Suitable for tractors from 260-455hp and with working widths ranging from 6.50-7.60m, these heavy-duty, rugged implements are claimed to penetrate even the toughest ground.

AGCO’s seeding and tillage range now covers a wide range of products from disc harrows and field cultivators to air drills and row-crop planters.

CNH opens Chinese manufacture base

CNH Industrial, the owners of the New Holland and Case IH farm machinery companies, has opened its new Chinese manufacturing complex. The manufacturing complex includes fabrication and painting facilities as well as a customer centre and research and development centre with a dedicated outdoor test track.

The new manufacturing plant will produce planters, tractors, combine harvesters and corn pickers along with their headers, balers and hay tools. Among its products will be the Case IH axial-flow combine range adapted for local conditions and Case IH corn pickers entirely developed for the Chinese market, as well as the New Holland T6000 and T7000 tractor ranges and BC5000 balers.

Trioliet expands in the Netherlands

Dutch farm machinery company Trioliet has started work on a new logistics centre and assembly area which will see company premises expand to more than 51,000m2 in the coming months.

Today, the family business is headed up by Robert Liet, son of co-founder Cees Liet Snr, who established the firm in 1950 along with his two brothers. In the early years, Trioliet was known for hay blowers and silage cutters, but nowadays its mixer feeders and automatic feeding systems are sold all over the world.

In a recent edition, we incorrectly stated that Trioliet was a Belgian company, when it is in fact a company based at 7575 BW Oldenzaal, in the Netherlands.

This week’s machine of the week on the Irish Farmers Journal advertising website www.toplink.ie is this Pottinger 3000 Lion 3m power harrow with APV PS 250 air seeder, complete with hydraulic roller lift. The machine has been fitted out with a full set of new Pottinger quick-fit tines. The seeder unit has full in-cab control in the cab. Paul Swaine at Farm Services (087-6813733) is quoting a price of €10,500 no VAT.