Machinery News

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.

The third Brian Chester Tractor Road Run gathered more than 70 vintage tractors that drove through picturesque Yorkshire villages. The event raised over £1,100 for the Sir Robert Ogden MacMillan Centre at Harrogate Hospital. 

Openfield Group, the British farmer-owned co-operative, has teamed up with Voltloader to trial fully electric trucks with the aim of reducing carbon emissions. 

A Derbyshire pub owner said he did not see anything unusual about his tractor parking bay before it became national news. 

Two men have been arrested in Darlington in connection with the theft of farm machinery worth about £1 million.

Trimble’s precision agriculture business and AGCO’s JCA Technologies will combine to form new venture PTx Trimble. The brand will factory fit and retrofit precision technology that meets farmers’ needs.

New regulations, set out in a consultation, would allow hydrogen-powered tractors, diggers and forklifts to be used on roads in Great Britain.