More powerful tractors create a challenge for implement makers to keep up with what is available at the PTO. One of the more power-hungry operations that has benefitted is mowing where the work rate is directly proportional to the power applied.
We have been busy over the last week as we complete harvesting the maize that we grow on contract for dairy farmers.
Ireland exported the equivalent to 1.8 billion litres of milk to the UK last year, according to a paper presented to European Dairy Association recently.
It is 11 years almost to the day that Fendt introduced its baby 200 Vario series, at the time the smallest tractor on the market with a constantly variable transmission. The stepless concept was well proven in its larger machines, but the 200 Vario series made it available in tractor sizes popular with stock farmers.
The traditionally strong numbers at this time of year was even more pronounced last week ahead of the latest round of Covid restrictions.
It was just another weekend at the little farm shop that we have cultivated at the end of the avenue to the farm house.
THE Government has decided on an altered Level 5 lockdown to stem the tide of the coronavirus. While there is a sense of deja vu, there will be differences from the first lockdown in March.
