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Big boots help spread the load

Peter Thomas Keaveney caught up with contractor Cecil Hall to find out how his Alliance Agriflex+ VF900/50R42 and 710/55R30 floatation tyres are working out on his John Deere 7530 at slurry.

FARM MACHINERY 28 January 2026

Big boots help spread the load

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What to do with cover crops this January

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Tillage Management: ploughing, wet weather and cover crops

Tillage Management: ploughing, wet weather and cover crops

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Watch out for mycotoxin issues this winter

Watch out for mycotoxin issues this winter

Watch out for mycotoxin issues this winter

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Tillage Podcast: chatting to a positive Wexford tillage farmer

Tillage Podcast: chatting to a positive Wexford tillage farmer

Tillage Podcast: chatting to a positive Wexford tillage farmer

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Agritechnica: Lemken introduces no-till disc drill

Agritechnica: Lemken introduces no-till disc drill

Among its suite of 2026 product updates launched at Agritechnica, Lemken introduced its first no-till disc drill, the Solitair NT to its range.

NEWS 29 October 2025

New €12.7m Teagasc research hub opens

New €12.7m Teagasc research hub opens

NASRIC will have 140 researchers and students operating across forty-four separate lab spaces with state-of the-art equipment.

NEWS 29 October 2025

Home Farm: saturated soil makes grazing difficult

Home Farm: saturated soil makes grazing difficult

If the rain continues we will have to consider housing everything, though that would eat into our silage supplies and affect our store buying programme in the spring

VIEWPOINTS 29 October 2025

Bednar launches Soniq one-pass drill combination

Bednar launches Soniq one-pass drill combination

At Agritechnica, Bednar presented its new Soniq On 3000, one pass power harrow seed drill.

FARM MACHINERY 29 October 2025

Amazone wins DLG Agrifuture Concept award with SoilDetect system

Amazone wins DLG Agrifuture Concept award with SoilDetect system

Amazone is one of the winners of the DLG Agrifuture Concept 2025 with SoilDetect. The system measures soil conductivity along with other data in order to create soil maps.

NEWS 29 October 2025

Amazone expands Cenio tine cultivator range

Amazone expands Cenio tine cultivator range

Amazone will showcase a new Cenio 5000-2, 5m hydraulic-folding stubble cultivator at Agritechnica.

FARM MACHINERY 29 October 2025

Grass production increased by 12% in 2025

Grass production increased by 12% in 2025

Daire Cregg looks at the grass situation across the country for this week.

NEWS 29 October 2025

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Why this Antrim contractor moved to Amazone ploughs

Ryan Bole is part of J Wilson Contracts in Co Antrim. Available for all kinds of work from slurry to reseeding, sowing to silage, today they are ploughing for potatoes with two Amazone ploughs.

Why this Antrim contractor moved to Amazone ploughs

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