Trade Shows & Global News

Around 430,000 visitors are expected to trawl through the halls at this year’s edition of the hugely popular German show, which kicks off at the weekend.The impressive stats of the world’s largest indoor trade show speak for themselves. With roughly 2,700 exhibitors from 52 different countries signed up for this year...

Grange Machinery has developed a maize ready version of its 6.0m Close Coupled Toolbar (CCT).Developed for farms wanting a traditional 50cm soil loosener during harvest but then require a wider 75cm spacing for drilling maize and other row crops, extra brackets allow the spacings of the low disturbance legs to be altered...

Tuckwells has increased its Kverneland trading area, expanding into Sussex and Kent.Tuckwells, a Kverneland dealer for over 25 years, is now looking forward to welcoming customers through the doors at its depots in Framfield, East Sussex, and Ivychurch and Stockbury in Kent, which previously did not have access to Kverne...

Developed to chop up oilseed rape and maize stubbles, and incorporate cover crops, Köckerling’s Gravo knife roller can be front or rear mounted.It can also be combined with other implements, such as a cultivator or disc harrow. Comprising two 360mm diameter rotating rollers, the design is said to ensure effective cros...

The details are limited this side of the show, but German manufacturer Siloking will show the SelfLine 4.0 System 2000+ mixer wagon at Agritechnica.Aimed at large dairy farms with around 2,000 cows plus followers, the three vertical augers in the 45m³ tub mix enough material to feed up to 320 cows at a time. ...

The Stihl Group has opened its first battery-only production site in Oradea, Romania. The new plant will produce battery packs and battery-powered tools.Covering a total area of 147,000m², the 47,000m² production building will gradually ramp up operations to reach an annual capacity of one million battery packs by 2026...

G&J Peck has lost the Krone franchise. Some of the area will be covered by newly appointed dealer CC Agricultural Engineering.G&J Peck’s distribution agreement with Krone UK will cease on April 3, 2026, while CC Agri will be fully operational as a Krone dealer by February 1, 2026. Customers will continue...

The trend towards wider working kit has prompted Stock Ag to develop a Turbo Jet to apapplicatorsply higher application rates at widths up to 15m.Called the Turbo Jet 10 HD, the hydraulic fan provides even more air flow than the current range (widest working width is 10m) to apply small to medium sized seeds such as oils...

New Holland has given three of its dealers a larger patch to ensure continuity of sales and service support to customers in the former areas of Rea Valley Tractors, which recently ceased trading.Effective immediately, Lloyd is expanding south to cover south Lancashire and Cheshire, T H White now covers Shropshire and Kni...

The new row unit is the big change on the newly styled Tempo and Proceed planters, Väderstad returning to the drawing board to develop it.The result of many years of development, testing and fine-tuning, the long list of new features includes setting planting depth from a prescription map, easier seed tube change and sw...

Claas has secured a gold medal in the Agritechnica innovation award for a large square baler concept that achieves throughputs of up to 70t/hr in straw.Destined to sit above the Quadrant, bale size is 1.20m x 90cm with a constant density of 210kg/m³ (peak up to 235 kg/m³). The technical details are under...

JCB dealer G & J Peck has added the Kubota franchise to the mix to strengthen the brands coverage throughout Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and south Lincolnshire.The new dealer is effectively taking over part of the Kubota patch currently covered by Ireland’s Farm Machinery, which after nine years has decided to dro...

With a working width of 7.20 or 7.50m, the Novag T-ForcePlus 750 plugs the gap in the range between the existing 650 and 850 models.The 750 is the first Novag drill with IntelliHead, a new generation of distributor heads and advanced section control. The new option is available on all the firm’s 6.0m+ drills. ...

Reiter has used the experience gained during 10 years of making mergers to develop the second generation pick-up on the new R10.With a working width of up to 10m, the pick-up on the new fully ISObus-compatible merger is said to produce a better flow of material to the centre of the belt and belt speed is adjusted from th...

Set to replace the existing MS 801 to MS 1401 models, the main updates on the new MS 105 (10.5m³) and MS 120 (12m³) centre on the spreading equipment.The four vertically arranged spreading rotors are said to evenly distribute the material across a working width of up to 8.0m. A universal spreading mechanism with slur...

Samasz will unveil a prototype of the Z4-1440 four-rotor rake at Agritechnica.With a working width from 10.5 to 15m, each of the four 3.80m diameter rotors contains 15 tine arms. The new rake comes with active hydro-pneumatic suspension, six-wheel ground-following chassis with rotatable wheels (180° and 360°), adjustab...

Equipping the new Horsch Leeb 9 LT single-axle trailed sprayer with a 9,000-litre plastic tank is said to result in an economically attractive solution for many farms, especially where frequent cleaning processes are not required.Aimed at customers seeking a higher tank capacity without compromising on manoeuvrability, a...

Profi and Superglide have joined forces to offer a lucky profi reader the chance to win a Superglide cab air suspension upgrade kit.Superglide Cab Air Suspension is a retrofit kit for tractors fitted with pneumatic brakes. Designed to upgrade the standard mechanical cab suspension, the softer ride you gain from the...

The radar-based turn assistant concept developed by Forvia Hella is designed to increase safety for both tractor drivers and other road users, especially when turning left.Integrated within the mirror, magnet-free rotation angle sensors detect following or overtaking vehicles from a distance of up to 80m. ...

Austrian manufacturer Lindner is close to unveiling its most powerful tractor to date, the 160hp Lintrac 160 LDRive.Sitting above the current Lintrac 130 (136hp), the new flagship in the range will be the main attraction at the firm’s open days at its headquarters in Kundl, Austria, which runs from October 16 to 18. ...

The Oliver Crane memorial 4×4 tractor museum houses the largest number of articulated Steiger and International tractors in Australia.Located in York (100km east of Perth) in Western Australia, the purpose-built museum is the result of work by Derrol and Sue Crane in honour of their late son Oliver who passed away from ...

Kubota is about to start field testing an autonomous hydrogen powered fuel cell tractor.Unveiled at Expo 2025 in Osaka in Japan recently, the fuel cell on the concept vehicle is supplied with compressed hydrogen stored in two tanks below the bonnet. Electricity generated by the fuel cell powers two electri...

Geringhoff has developed a solution to establish cover crops while combining. Called CoverPro, the precision seeder bolts directly to the rear of the header.Eliminating the need for a separate pass with a tractor, the time saving technique was developed jointly with Kverneland. Available for rigid headers from 5.5 to 9.0...

The Optum family is expanding with three additional models, the 360, 390 and 440, that apart from the cab are completely new. Having recognised that the Magnum has not been hitting the spot for European farmers and contractors wanting a more road friendly, versatile workhorse Case IH has literally gone back to the drawin...

McCormick is in the process of adding a new 340hp model to the top end of its X8 range.Sitting above the X8.627 (273hp) and X8.631 (313hp), power to the new 340hp X8.634 VT Drive continues to come from the same six-cylinder Stage V FPT N67 block with eVGT turbocharger. With 340hp on tap all the time, the new X8 range top...