Machinery News

Over 500 CNH Industrial workers – comprising nearly the entire shop floor of the Basildon factory which produces New Holland tractors – are striking during May over a pay dispute.

Shepton Mallet company, Read Agriservices Ltd has taken on the Alstrong franchise for Somerset, Wiltshire and Dorset.

Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP) is continuing to grow its Can-Am off-road dealer network in the UK with the appointment of Thorncliffe, a Rhyl-based family-run business with over 36 years in the construction sector.

After more than 40 years with the company, Amazone Ltd has just announced the retirement of its managing director, Simon Brown.

Over £2.4 million worth of vintage and classic tractors, steam engines, vehicles, motorcycles and petroliana were sold during the Cheffins’ vintage auction.

A Kuhn sprayer and spreader demonstration day by Malpas Tractors in late March featured the latest mounted and trailed models and precision farming technology.

The Syngenta Sprays and Sprayers Arena has become a ‘shop window’ at the Cereals Event for the latest innovation and technologies. This year will be no different, with a display of new developments in pioneering precision application practices.

The popular Isuzu D-Max pick-up received a refresh last year which included revised styling and an improved interior. The biggest changes affected the base Utility version, and Farmers Guide has been putting it through its paces. David Williams reports.

Jobs have been saved after a 117-year-old Aberdeenshire agricultural machinery company was recently sold out of administration.

Traction engines, vintage vehicles and beloved 4x4s will be showcased during this year’s Steam & Vintage and Land Rover Shows in Suffolk. Farmers Guide is delighted to be supporting the event. 

A restored 1928 Foden C Type will be one of 300 tractors that will go under the hammer during the first vintage auction of the year held at Cheffins’ sale ground.

2024 marks the 60th year of tractor production at the Basildon plant of New Holland. Work started at the height of the 1960s, with the ground broken on the greenfield site of what was then a rural part of the Essex countryside in 1963. Basildon has changed significantly over those 60 years and the tractor plant is now located in the centre of a what has become a large urban conurbation, as a crucial local employer.