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Machinery
Review: Amazone single-disc coulters offers top-class accuracy
Peter Thomas Keaveney
Peter Thomas Keaveney put the latest Amazone Centeya Super 3m drill and disc harrow combo through its paces.
26 March 2025 News
Yanmar launches new electrification unit for machinery
Yanmar is set to officially launch a new organisation dedicated to advancing electrification in the compact off-highway segment.
26 March 2025 News
Amazone sales down 10.4% in 2024
Amazone recorded a turnover of €763 million in 2024, which represents a drop of 10.4% on the €852 million in 2023.
Claas produces 250,000th mower
Claas has just built its 250,000th mower at its Bad Saulgau production site in Germany.
26 March 2025 News
Trimble launches technology to enhance RTK GNSS signal
Trimble and PTx Trimble have announced the availability of Trimble IonoGuard, which is designed to improve RTK GNSS positioning performance during solar storm events.
26 March 2025 News
Young Stock Podcast: 24-year-old contractor on setting up his own business
On this week’s Young Stock Podcast, Peter Thomas Keaveney speaks with Tipperary native Kelum Harrington, who left school at 15 and is now running his own sizeable agricultural contracting business.
26 March 2025 News
Contractor charges see a rise of 5% this year
Contractor charges are experiencing a 5% rise for 2025, according to the Association of Farm and Forestry Contractors in Ireland (FCI) annual price guide.
19 March 2025 News
Roscommon contractor celebrates 50 years of lime spreading
Peter Thomas Keaveney travelled to Elphin in Co Roscommon to catch up with Padraig Berine who was busy spreading lime, now his 50th year at the job.
19 March 2025 Farm machinery
French police seizes €1.5m worth of stolen GPS kits
French authorities recovered 40 pieces of stolen agricultural equipment including 34 GPS systems.
19 March 2025 News
Kilkenny auction on behalf of contractor
Michael Doyle Auctioneers will be carrying out a reduction sale of machinery on behalf of agricultural contractor William Maher of Tullamaine, Callan, Co Kilkenny.
19 March 2025 News
Manitou Group sales drop 7.5% in 2024
The Manitou Group has published its 2024 financial results, with the Groups sales of €2,656 million down 7.5% on 2023 figures.
19 March 2025 News
Farmers supply over 70% of the diesel we use — Antrim contractor
Peter Thomas Keaveney caught up with Darragh Rutledge from Rutledge Contracts who tells us about his contracting enterprise and newly established machinery retail business, focusing on slurry.
19 March 2025 Farm machinery