AG Salons & Nouvelles de la mécanisation

Claas has commissioned two new assembly lines at its French plant in Metz-Woippy to build the new Cerex round and Cubix square balers.Following the opening of a new prototype workshop at the beginning of last year, the company has now spent €3.3 million to modernise and expand final assembly at the 65-year-old plant to...

Krone Group generated sales revenues of nearly €2.3 billion in 2024/2025 (previous year €2.4 billion). Earnings before tax fell from €107 million to €40.1 million.The commercial vehicle division accounted for around €1.4 billion of total sales, with farm machinery approx. €846 million. While farm incomes impr...

Dutch company Speelman Machines is reviving the Agrifac LightTraxx and OptiTraxx self-propelled sugar beet harvesters.A strategic licencing agreement between Agrifac Machinery and Speelman Machines gives Speelman the rights to produce the Agrifac harvesters under its own name for sale in the Benelux and northern Germany....

Veenhuis and Schuitemaker distributor AIS was showing this Scania mounted forage trailers. The Schuitemaker Siwa 660 body has a capacity of 38m3 and comes with a top sheet to prevent forage loss in transport.Truck wise, the £135,000 pictures outfit was based on a 2020 Scania P410 XT with 395/85 R20 front and 560/60 R22....

McConnel’s new 62 Series Power Arm, a refined mid-range reach arm mower, is said to offer an unrivalled combination of reach and power.Manufactured at the Ludlow facility, the range is available in 5.1m, 5.5m and 5.7m configurations, plus, a 5.5m Variable Forward Reach (VFR) model provides significantly improved visibi...

Develon has appointed newly formed GOS Plant Services as its authorised dealer across key regions of Wales.Operating from a modern 30,000m² site at Blaenavon, South Wales, GOS will represent Develon across East and South Wales, as well as Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Powys and Ceredigion. In addition t...

Kuhn Farm Machinery has added a 6.1m model to its Multi-Longer range of hedge and verge cutters.Requiring a tractor weighing 5.5t, and a minimum of 100hp, the 6157 e-TPAL joins the 7457 e-TPAL as telescopic, left-handed machines, designed specifically for UK and Irish users. Expected to be a popular model,...

The Fortis Silage Compactor has been proving a hit for Bristol-based Taylor Attachments in Scandinavia. There are two working widths, 3.0m and 3.5m but other bespoke sizes are possible. While the drum measures 914mm in diameter, the outer rings are 1,258mm. Three baffles prevent the water ballast from sloshing left to ri...

Having previously imported the Rolmako range of disc harrows, Engineering business Denis Doyle is now making its own cultivator onto which it can mount its range of seeders. The Tornado is initially being offered in working widths of 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0m.One of the key features is the cast leg design for the 560mm diameter,...

The Agri-Press can be tooled up with discs or tines ahead of the two rows of interlocking rings. The latest machine from AgriWeld, its comes in working widths from 3.0m up to 8.0m.Starting at the front, there is a choice of two-rows of heavy-duty pigtail tines or you can have three-rows of shearbolt protected tines. Alte...

AH Engineering has added some simple electronics all to its rear discharge spreader, all aimed at making life easier on the operator and their machines even more dependable.Firstly, the horizontal beater/spreading disc machines now have hydraulic adjustment of the lower hood section. This allows users to alter the drop p...

John Deere topped the UK tractor chart in 2024 with 3,304 units and a 28.1% share of the 11,761-strong market.In second place was New Holland with 2,270 (19.3%) units, and third-placed Massey was the best performing AGCO brand with 1,295 tractors and an 11% share of the total market. The other top 10 spots...

The Elete is a new top of the range tanker range from SlurryKat, ahead of its Premium Plus. The range includes single- (15m3), tandem- (22.7m3) and tri-axle (31.8m3) tanks.The spec sheet includes hydraulic drawbar suspension as well as height control. The pump has a new silencer, oil trap which is said to reduce noise le...

Slurryquip was launching this Stage V engine pumping rig at LAMMA last week. A four-cylinder, 188hp Caterpillar supplies the grunt to the Veneroni or Bauer pump. To ensure a reliable connection with the operator on the spreading tractor it has a full belt and braces approach – radio, GSM and satellite. There is a scree...

Linde, the well-known forklift and materials handling manufacturer, has expanded its portfolio with two Sennebogen-made telehandlers.The Linde branded models, the YH40 (4.0t/7.7m) and YH60 (6.0t/8.5m), are the Sennebogen equivalents of the 340 G and 360 G, both of which have a high-lift cab. The Stage V Cummins engine in...

Devon-based self-propelled sprayer specialist Bateman has given its entire line-up a revamp. From an operator’s point of view the most obvious upgrade is a completely new control layout with a customisable joystick surrounded by a rash of brightly back-lit buttons. Switching between road model and three field modes wit...

Spud kit specialist Standen had a new tunnel-type cup planter on display at the show. What apparently sets the new machine apart is its dual function cups that both singulate and cradle seed tubers as they are delivered to the ground. This in turn makes it possible to run the chains significantly faster so that forward s...

Best-known for its mini tracked dumpers and digger-mounted hedge-trimmers, Slanetrac is set to introduce a compact pivot-steer loader to its line-up.Fitted with a 20kW/27hp, three-cylinder Kubota engine and a 20km/hr two-range hydrostatic transmission, the H160 is built in China to the Irish firm’s particular specifica...

Czech company Rozmital had an array of grassland kit on its stand at LAMMA this week. Perhaps the most striking was this unusual-looking trailed single rotor rake. With a working width of 4.9m, it has apparently been designed for smaller tractors that might not have the lift capacity to handle a machine such size or the ...

8,791 new 50hp+ agricultural tractors were registered in the UK in 2025 – 14% fewer than in 2024, and the lowest figure since AEA began monitoring registrations in the 1960s.Almost all power bands saw a decline in registrations but the biggest falls were at the top end of the power range. The number of 240hp+ tractors ...

After three years of sharp decline, the Italian tractor, telehandler and trailer markets showed signs of a recovery last year.FederUnacoma figures show that the tractor market grew by 13.7% to 17,573 units, a sizeable increase on the all-time low of 15,450 units in 2024. Registrations were sluggish in the first six month...

Russells has expanded its Manitou area with responsibility for the former Farmstar Marr and Brigg territory.The newly acquired patch extends from North Sheffield eastwards through South Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire to Grimsby, covering key agricultural centres including Barnsley, Doncaster, Gainsborough and Brigg,...

Following its acquisition of WRAG post-drivers in March last year, Kidd Farm Machinery has added the Bushpig wire unroller to its portfolio at LAMMA today.As a front linkage mounted machine it can carry up to 1000m of standard stocknet or 400m of deer fence. Every imaginable function is controlled hydraulically from wire...

Brough-based South Cave Tractors is the first Mercedes-Benz Trucks Unimog dealer in the UK to be awarded official Unimog partner status, a prestigious accolade held by only a handful of dealers worldwide.The rigorous accreditation process includes an on-site audit to assess showroom and workshop facilities, plus technica...

GB Tyres now distributes the full Alliance agricultural and forestry tyre portfolio across the UK via its agricultural brand, Nordic Tyres.The result of a distribution agreement between the two companies, Graham Hutchison, commercial director at GB Tyres, says that this partnership represents a major step forward for Nor...