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Conal Moore an Agri contractor & tillage framer from Ballygar Co. Galway. “we do a lot of reseeding, slurry spreading and tillage work but baling would be our main enterprise”.
20 April 2025 News
Spot spraying can reduce inputs and improve efficiency
Spot spraying is here and can be used at field scale. It has the potential to save on inputs, but for now is probably limited to large-scale farms.
9 April 2025 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: a brief history of fertiliser spreaders
As Gerald Potterton gets through plenty of spreading and spraying in the fine weather, he takes a look at the technological advances of fertiliser spreaders.
Maintaining and driving the Krone Big X
Munster Technological University Agricultural engineering lecturer, Fergal O’Sullivan speaks to Ciaran Roche, a specialist on Krone Big X harvesters, about getting the machines ready for silage season
2 April 2025 Farm machinery
Review: Amazone single-disc coulters offers top-class accuracy
Peter Thomas Keaveney put the latest Amazone Centeya Super 3m drill and disc harrow combo through its paces.
26 March 2025 Farm machinery
Farmhand to debut new Krone butterfly mowers at Punchestown
Farmhand will showcase the latest in machinery and technology from Krone, Amazone, Zuidberg, Quicke and Flexxaire at its stand at the FTMTA show in Punchestown next week.
6 November 2024 Farm machinery
Ploughing highlights: eye-catching Amazone Pantera
The first Amazone Pantera 4505 models were sold in Ireland this year, and this Farmhand exhibited the flagship model to the Ploughing.
18 September 2024 Farm machinery
Farmhand's eye-catching self-propelled display
Highlights of Farmhand stand at the Ploughing are set to include Krone’s Big M 450 self-propelled mower and Big X 980 forager, alongside an Amazone Pantera 4504 self-propelled sprayer.
11 September 2024 Farm machinery
Farmhand appoints new harvester dealers for NI
Farmhand has just appointed Irwin Brothers in Co. Fermanagh and McMullan Agri in Co. Antrim as BiG X forager dealers for Northern Ireland.
28 August 2024 News
Satellites and drones for targeted fertiliser and chemical use
Peter Thomas Keaveney attended a Farmhand and CultiWise working demonstration day in Laois last week where variable rate herbicide applications were derived from drone imagery.
21 August 2024 Farm machinery