Kategorie: N.Ireland
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Farm friendly Kubota loader launched at LAMMA
Kubota is emerging as a serious player in the materials handling market as it pursues a growing interest from farmers in having specialist machinery to perform a range of tasks in the yard, and beyond. Best known for its compact equipment, the company is finding itself obliged to produce larger machines if it wishes to…
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Machinery Focus: The farm roots of Caterpillar in its 100th year
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2025 is the year that Caterpillar Inc., now universally referred to as CAT, celebrates its first 100 years in business. Despite being the major name in construction equipment, the company has its roots seated deep in the farming community of the American western states where two pioneers in the mechanisation of agriculture were busy developing…
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LAMMA launch for tine drill and slurry pump
Among the machines unveiled at LAMMA 2025 were two machines that may be of particular interest to Irish farmers – the first is an all-weather drill while the second is a combination slurry pump. Weaving Machinery introduced its redesigned tine combination drill, which, it claims, offers improved efficiency and adaptability for farmers using conventional cropping…
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Sales slump at CNH with gloomy forecast for 2025
The sentiment that 2024 is a year that machinery manufacturers would prefer to forget was reinforced this week, as agricultural and construction machinery company CNH released its quarterly and full-year results. The headline figures show a decline of 28% in revenue for the final quarter of 2024, while full-year consolidated income declined by 20% on…
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Kverneland expands French harrow and weeder production
Following the purchase of Phenix in early 2022, Kverneland has consolidated and reorganised its French operations with the closure of the Arcy sur Cure facility and the transfer of mechanical weeding equipment production to Les Landes-Genusson, its already existing implement factory. Kverneland Group Les Landes-Genusson, abbreviated to KVG LLG by the company, lies 50km south…
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Getting the calibration of your fertiliser spreader right
Fertiliser spreader calibration has become a hot topic in recent months as many farmers have experienced issues with spreading protected urea on their ground. These spreading difficulties have mainly been coming from protected urea with sulphur (S), the likes of 38:0:0 + S has proven to be a difficult spread with striping occurring on many…
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Claas connect puts all farm data into the same pot
Bringing all fleet data and farm management information together on one app is the logic behind the latest Claas connect digital platform which the company launched recently. Over the last 25 years Claas has developed several digital services under the Claas connect banner, but this latest offering replaces them all and puts everything on the…
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Caring for your DPF will boost performance and economy
The diesel particulate filters (DPF) fitted to all modern diesels are something of a Cinderella feature, in that everybody knows they are there, but nobody takes much notice of them. As a rule, they work well, except for the occasional regeneration period in certain models, where the vehicles’ computer initiates a sequence of actions that…
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Kverneland offers 0% finance deals to boost sales
The dramatic increase in the cost of machinery ownership over the last few years has left farmers with little enthusiasm to continue buying, despite the slight but encouraging rise in commodity prices. Machinery manufactures are obviously well aware of this, but their hands are tied by increased production costs and the inflation in wages and…