The second day of the Farm Tractor and Machinery Trade Association’s (FTMTA’s) annual machinery show takes place today (Thursday, July 14) at the Punchestown Event Centre in Co. Kildare, where many brands are taking the chance to show off the new products they have recently brought to market.
There are more than 100 exhibitors at this year’s show, which hasn’t been held since 2019. Since then, many of the brands have updated their models or developed entirely new machines, which are on display today.
Agriland visited the stalls of some of the companies showing off their products to find out what they’ve brought this year and what they are most excited to display.
Kubota, which has a large stall at the show, has brought its entire range of professional ground-care machinery, agricultural machinery and construction equipment. General manager Henry Bredin outlined what else people can see at the stall:
“We’ve got a completely new product as well in our M6002 range. This is a completely new tractor from the ground up, which is really aimed at the European market.
“It plugged a gap in our range, so we’ve now got entry, basic and value tractors and now we’ve got the premium offerings as well.”
Innovation has been key for many of the companies over the past couple of years and there are a number of exhibitors showing off their more progressive machinery, including Farmec. Sales director Gary Daly told Agriland what’s on offer:
“We’ve got a lot of new innovations including a new P100 drill from Sulky, that can sow up to three different products at three different rates at the same time.
“The things we’re really focusing on are the Sulky X-40 Econov section control machine and our SIP wide area tethers which can go up to 13m and 15m.”
Also at the show is machinery importer and distributor Kellys of Borris, showing two of its dominant brands Claas and Horsch, a tillage machinery brand from Germany. Maurice Kelly explained what Horsch products are on display:
“We have a range of cultivators here; we have our new Joker cultivator here at the stand. We also have a selection of drills, we do the whole range from 3m up to 12m.
“We also have a range of sprayers which have proved very popular and we have a new mounted sprayer that’s coming out later this year.”
The show continues until 6:00p.m this evening.