Tractors, luv 'em or hate them, one thing is for sure - life on the farm would be hard without them.

Those big black lumps at each corner of your tractor are the contact with the ground, and as such they ultimately convert the power delivered by the engine into traction.

The Claas Lexion 700 combine harvester has won 2016 Machine of the Year at the biennial European trade fair Agritechnica.

Unmanned aerial vehicles – or drones – have become increasingly popular over the last few years.

With the silly, busy season about to happen – and with margins tighter than ever – it might be worth considering a few salient points to save fuel in the trusty farm tractor.

Irish grassland heavyweight McHale has given visitors to the recent Irish Ploughing Match a preview of new products.

With the biennial Agritechnica show in Germany just finished, a number of manufacturers launched new products.

Back in the 1970s Meatloaf sang "two out of three aint bad", but AGCO has gone one further at the recent Agritechnica exhibition in Germany.

Firstly there was GPS and all of a sudden you knew what paddock you were in on the farm, then auto-steering kept you on the straight and narrow cleverly matching up bouts so there were no embarrassing misses.

2016 upgrades to New Holland FR self-propelled foragers include all models having ECO mode.