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6 days ago | 
agriland.ie | Justin Roberts
Agritechnica, Europe’s major agricultural machinery show, has returned to its routine of being held every two years at Hanover in Germany, with the German Agricultural Society (DLG) claiming that stand space is already sold out. The organisation expects over 2,700 exhibitors, spread throughout 23 halls, to be present, 65% of which will be from outside of Germany.
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1 week ago | 
agriland.ie | Justin Roberts
Sometimes, just restoring a tractor is not good enough for a creative mind – the project has to be taken further, much further, until a true masterpiece of engineering is turned out that defies logic and maybe sense, but at the same time is tremendous fun. Such is the articulated Massey Ferguson 135 built by Co. Kerry farmer Norman. Wherever the tractor goes, it draws tremendous interest and rightly so.
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1 week ago | 
agriland.ie | Justin Roberts
Soil compaction is a subject that is now widely recognised and addressed, yet a related issue that does not get quite the same attention is soil smearing by tractor wheels. Compaction is considered the vertical displacement of soil particles as they press against one another, collapsing the pores and excluding air from the spaces.
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1 week ago | 
agriland.ie | Justin Roberts
The Soilcrates project has issued a list of novel and established practices that farmers and growers participating in the project may wish to implement on their farms in a bid to improve soil health. While trials that are eligible for grants through the scheme are limited to certain areas in the west of Ireland, the catalogue does provide a good summary of soil management methods that are applicable throughout the country. Interest in soil health is increasing as farmers seek to reduce inputs.
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1 week ago | 
agriland.ie | Justin Roberts
Sky Agriculture, the brand of machinery better known to the farming world under its previous name of Sulky, has recently changed its sales and distribution arrangements here in Ireland. From now on it will be distributed by IAM Agricultural Machinery of Co. Kilkenny, which has been appointed as the exclusive importer and distributor of the full Sky Agriculture range.
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1 week ago | 
agriland.co.uk | Justin Roberts
Enthusiasm for the mechanical weeding of crops has been less than overwhelming despite the amount of effort and expense that goes into it, yet some manufacturers like Pottinger take a longer term view and continue to back the idea. In the case of the Austrian company, this is quite understandable – for finding an alternative to chemical control is a priority for farming, which still finds itself under pressure to reduce herbicide inputs. Not having a range of sprayers to sell.
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1 week ago | 
agriland.ie | Justin Roberts
Enthusiasm for the mechanical weeding of crops has been less than overwhelming despite the amount of effort and expense that goes into it, yet some manufacturers like Pottinger take a longer term view and continue to back the idea. In the case of the Austrian company, this is quite understandable – for finding an alternative to chemical control is a priority for farming, which still finds itself under pressure to reduce herbicide inputs. Not having a range of sprayers to sell.
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1 week ago | 
agriland.co.uk | Justin Roberts
Crop protection is rapidly evolving as new ways of tending crops emerge – whether by compact robots on the ground or drones in the air – yet there is still the need for blanket application of pesticides, and John Deere is intent on fulfilling it. The company has just introduced its latest pair of self-propelled sprayers, the 540R and the 550R – the former having a 4,000L capacity while the latter can carry 5,000L.
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1 week ago | 
agriland.ie | Justin Roberts
Crop protection is rapidly evolving as new ways of tending crops emerge – whether by compact robots on the ground or drones in the air – yet there is still the need for blanket application of pesticides, and John Deere is intent on fulfilling it. The company has just introduced its latest pair of self-propelled sprayers, the 540R and the 550R – the former having a 4,000L capacity while the latter can carry 5,000L.
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1 week ago | 
agriland.ie | Justin Roberts
Blanket spraying of crops for weeds and pests is coming under ever closer scrutiny as the technology to reduce the necessity of doing so evolves, and CNH has not been idle in pursuing the idea of applying chemicals only where they are neededThis year, the company launched what it refers to as its sense and act technology. Case IH have branded the new technology SenseApply, while New Holland has added it to the functions of its IntelliSense suite of digital functions.
