/ Donal O Leary
New tractor registrations in March have shown a continuation to the strong start to the year, according to new figures from the Farm Tractor & Machinery Trade Association (FTMTA).
The figures show that 239 new tractors were registered in March.
Although only one unit above the same month last year, new tractors registrations for the year to date are up 16% on the same period last year. This means that a total of 1,036 new tractors have been registered in the first three months of this year, up from the 896 units a year previous.
The three counties with the highest levels of registrations over the first three months were Cork (144 units), Tipperary (90 units) and Wexford (71 units). Leitrim was the county with the lowest level of registrations, with eight units up to the end of March.
Allan Langley, who worked at the SRUC and its forerunners for almost 40 years, died at the beginning of February at the age of 73. A native of Glasgow, he taught or advised many of the people who now manage farms and work in rural businesses in South-east Scotland and further afield. His interest in agriculture was kindled at an early age, when he spent his summers helping on his uncle s farm in Aberdeenshire. He studied for a BSc Agriculture degree at Glasgow University – which included a year at Auchincruive – and then went on to complete a Diploma in Agricultural Engineering at the West of Scotland Agricultural College.
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Forty-four new tractors were registered in Northern Ireland in January, up 83% on the 24 units registered in the same month last year.
New figures from the Agricultural Engineers Association (AEA) show that 44 new tractors were registered in Northern Ireland in January, up 83% on the 24 units registered in the same month last year.
Meanwhile, UK tractor registrations also had a strong January, recording a monthly total of 586 machines. This meant it remained well above the level from January 2020, up 17%.
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The AEA noted that this was the fourth time in the last five months that there were year-on-year rises of this rate or faster.
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