Machinery
Rising prices lift Carr’s interims
Half year figures from the Carr’s Group show a strong performance from its UK Agricultural Supplies division, despite significant raw material cost increases. But there was a reduced profit from the international Speciality...
Cefetra helps BayWa Group to record earnings
A sharp rise in Cefetra’s profitability helped lift the BayWa Group’s full year results to record levels, along with a significant contribution from its renewable energies division. The Munich-based conglomerate of agricultural,...
Lely predicts dairy automation growth in 2022
Dairy farm automation specialist Lely has reported a €611 million turnover for its 2021 financial year, which it says is in line with both the previous full year’s record €615m revenue and its budget forecast. The latest year was...
January tractor sales at 20-year low
UK tractor registrations continue to slow with just 500 machines of 50hp and over registered in January 2022, 14% down on the same month in 2021 and the lowest January figure for more than two decades in what is always a quiet time...
Bayer joins the easyconnect initiative
Bayer Crop Science is the latest agrochemical manufacturer to join the cross-industry group developing the easyconnect closed transfer system for the safer transfer of pesticide concentrates to application equipment while reducing the potential for environmentally...
Hutchinsons extends Omnia and CLAAS collaboration
Omnia, the digital agronomy platform developed by Hutchinsons, can now seamlessly transfer prescriptive data files with farm machinery made by Claas that is equipped with the Claas API system. This industry first allows a much more efficient and faster means of...