A star of the show was this JD T560 of 2014
Dealers are in business to sell machinery and so all avenues must be explored to maximise that objective. An online auction has recently become a further option thanks to the internet.
Micheál Doyle Auctions of Co. Carlow recently held a timed event on behalf of Kellys of Borris over a five-day period commencing on the April 30. This was a first for both companies and both have been reviewing the results.
Overall they are enthused by how it went with a good proportion of the lots selling. However, Micheál cautions that although there was a good demand for the smaller items, the larger machines tended to be slower – €30,000 being about the watershed.
Making a dividend to pay to maintain high standards of kit, is the way forward for JA Gilston Agricultural Contractors, based in Co Durham, who feature in our Contractor’s Yard series. Founded by John Alastair Gilston, in 1981, at the age of 18 years old, it has been a lifetime commitment in making it the success it is today. Now run alongside his son, James and with two full-time employees, as well as a secretary, who works one day a week, and and engineer working flexible hours. Although now trying to specialise specifically into forage harvesting, there are still a number of services the team have on offer, which run alongside a variety of council-run contracts for grass and winter maintenance.
On 1 January 2020, the word coronavirus was one that few farmers were familiar with, but as the year unfolded, COVID-19 came to dominate our lives and our timelines.
Little wonder then, that there was huge interest in a laboratory study in Australia that a cattle wormer could potentially kill the wretched coronavirus.
University of Monash scientists showed that a single dose of the anti-parasitic drug can stop the virus growing in a cell culture within 48 hours.
At a time when the virus was raging around the world at speed, the news that a veterinary medicine could help in the fight against COVID-19 was of great interest.