Written by Agriland Team from Agriland
By Chris McCullough
Producing a cow that can walk long distances and cope with rolling hills is an important breeding goal of an Irish farmer who is now running his own dairy farm in Australia.
Originally from Monaghan, Brian Corr was managing two dairy...
Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland
At first glance, the Ineos Grenadier is little more than a revamp of the old and much missed Land Rover Defender, but such an assumption is totally misplaced as becomes immediately apparent when encountering one in the flesh.
The new vehicle does...
Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland
Tractors powered by internal combustion have been around for for just over 120 years now, and for half of that time, they have been built at Basildon, Essex in a factory built by Ford, but now owned and operated by Case New Holland.
This is a strong...
Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland
The introduction of digital technology and the rapid growth of its capabilities over the past few years has given the impression of a shotgun approach to digitalisation, rather than a well-targeted implementation.
AGCO are the latest company to...
Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland
Landini, part of the Argos Tractor Group, has two events to celebrate this year.
The first being the 140th anniversary of its foundation by Giovanni Landini, who established a business in Fabbrico in 1884, while the second is that it is now 30 years...
Just standing in cow shed on a horrible night thinking 1 how glad I built what I did in 2018/19 and 2 how I wish I build bigger 🙈🤣 looked up the quote for the extension that was done then, 80ft wide 60 long. 4800 ft2 for 25k galvanised and delivered. £5.20/sq foot. Putting it up was on top of...
Hi, we've been looking at getting a MF200 or 300 series, 4wd, from Howards and sons, we want something easy to maintain, front loader and good general field work.
Though I've done googling whats the difference between a 290 and 390, or a new 385 made in Turkey/India/Pakistan?
The rear arm lift...
Come on you farm engineers if you were to build one from scratch
what features would be an absolute must.
Would you choose discs or more of a knife like coulter?
How would you go about designing a drill which would cope with a mixture of cropping
from Cereal,rotational grass ,into cover crops...
We employee three staff on a busy arable farm. They are paid hourly with overtime at time and a half. We run decent modern kit.
I just wondered what is the going hourly rate for experienced and capable staff??
Minimum wage increasing in April again, will this push up the rate of higher rate...
Which is better.
Valtra is larger, but in versu transmission.
High spec tractor to have 4000/4 year warrenty.
RTK and Front PTO.
What should i go for ??
Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland
There are people of a certain generation who cannot see a blue and black tractor without immediately thinking it a Ford, which must frustrate New Holland, as Ford have not made a tractor for well over a quarter of century now.
The well-known livery...
Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland
Following the launch of Argo Tractors as the marketing and distribution subsidiary of the Italian parent, the company has just confirmed the appointment of Stewart Agri as its latest dealer for the Landini range.
Based in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, the...
So, my time on the seat will be going up this coming season, been enjoying our classic fleet the past few years, but coming to accept they are tiring to run on long days and should possibly look to go back a bit more modern. Thinking to go two to one with 7800 and 6400 against a medium frame...
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