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Contractors on labour: 'novices looking for big money are not worth it'
Rachel Donovan
Rachel Donovan spoke to a number of contractors to see how they're fixed for drivers ahead of the busy summer period.
1 May 2025 News
JCB hydrogen diggers given green light for UK road use
JCB has hailed a decision made by the UK government to change the law in order to give hydrogen diggers the green light to be driven on UK roads.
30 April 2025 News
Strautmann introduces compact Magnon forage wagon with shorter chop
Strautmann has introduced a new compact version of its flagship Magnon forage wagon series, the Magnon 9 with capacities from 34 to 44m3 and a shorter chop length down to 22mm.
Windblown commercial logs exported to the continent
The North East Forestry Group has organised to ensure a co-operative approach to harvesting windblow.
30 April 2025 Forestry
US tariffs to hit Irish machinery companies
Peter Thomas Keaveney and Gary Abbott look at how the newly imposed US tariffs will affect some Irish machinery manufacturers.
9 April 2025 News
EU contractors arrive to salvage Irish timber
Harvesting machinery from Britain, Austria and Estonia is already in the process of being cleared to begin salvage work in Ireland.
9 April 2025 News
Cooler heads emerge in tariff row
It's still early days for the Trump tariff regime, but resistance is emerging within his own Republican Party.
9 April 2025 Dealer
Over 500 slurry fines for NI farmers in five years
The latest available figures show that 526 cross compliance breaches about slurry usage were found from 2019 to 2023
9 April 2025 Northern Ireland
Forestry contractors seek forest machine import ban
The FCI is urging the minister to deal with the post-storm Éowyn windblow with similar machines in the ownership of Irish forestry contractors that are currently idle.
9 April 2025 Forestry
Antrim farmer with a love for trailed foragers
Peter Thomas Keaveney catches up with Antrim dairy farmer Neil Hoey, whose family has been cutting their own silage for five decades.
2 April 2025 Farm machinery
Kilkenny contractor gaining 30% capacity with Kompactor
One year on from moving to their first HiSpec Kompactor silage trailer, Peter Thomas Keaveney catches up with Kilkenny contractors Bryne Agri and Plant to find out how the trailer worked out
2 April 2025 Farm machinery
In pictures: tractors and tankers top online auction
Three John Deere tractors and a variety of slurry tankers and muck spreaders went under the hammer last week, as part of a UK contractor sellout; a 2020 John Deere 6215R topped the sale at £71,000.
2 April 2025 News