Machinery
OPICO acquires Stocks Ag
OPICO, the Bourne, Lincolnshire-based farm equipment importer and distributor, has acquired Stocks Ag, the UK specialist manufacturer of seed and granule applicators alongside wheels for agricultural machinery. Stocks Ag was established in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire in...
Carr’s rides out lower full year feed sales
The Carr’s Group’s Agriculture division has maintained profitability and revenues at near previous year levels, despite a 10% fall in feed sales. The division – largely trading under the Carr’s Billington Agriculture (CBA) brand - made an operating profit of £12.9...
Tractor registrations fall in H1 2019
Tractor sales for the first half of 2019 are down by 5% from the previous year but fell by a sharp 13% in the month of June. Tractor sales are a traditional indicator of farmers’ confidence to invest in their businesses. The Agricultural Engineers’ Association (AEA)...
Lely divestment to focus on dairy robotics
Agricultural engineer Lely is to divest a wind turbine manufacturing business in order to concentrate its strategic focus on dairy farm robotics and data services. The Dutch company is to sell its Lely Aircon wind turbine operation to Bettink Service Team, also based...
UK tractor sales fall 9% in Q1
Figures from the Agricultural Engineers Association (AEA) show that in March, UK registrations of agricultural tractors (over 50hp) were down on a year earlier for the sixth month in a row. A total of 1,557 units were registered in March this year, a fall of 5.6%...
Robotic potential to transform future farming
Robotic technologies have the potential to completely transform conventional agriculture as we know it – not just the hardware and software in common use, but the very fundamentals of farm business. This was the take home message from Sam Watson-Jones of the Small...