FTMTA Welcomes New Member The September meeting of the FTMTA Executive Council was pleased to admit Roche Agricultural Machinery Ltd. to membership of the Association. Based in Jamestown, Glenmore, Co. Kilkenny, Roche Agricultural Machinery Ltd. is a well established family…
FTMTA member firm Cross Agricultural Engineering won 2015 Best Agri Engineering Invention Award 2015. Congratulations to Jason Cross, a DCU mechatronic engineering graduate, who has been awarded the 2015 Best Agri Engineering Invention title at the National Ploughing Championships for…
Seamie Weldon Memorial 5K Run/Walk The Ardee Athletic Club recently held a race in honour of the late Seamie Weldon which was hugely successful with in excess of 460 competitors. The event was a fitting tribute to Seamie who spent…
Closing Date for Gold Award The closing date for nominations for the FTMTA Gold Award for 2015 is Friday, October 2nd Instituted in 2004, the Gold Award is made by the Association to a person who is considered by the…
FTMTA National Conference 2015 The FTMTA National Conference will be held in The Heritage Hotel, Killenard, Co. Laois, on Friday, November 20th. The theme of the conference will be "Driving Your Business Forward" and a panel of high calibre speakers…
Tractor Registration Statistics The figures prepared by FTMTA in relation to the registration of new tractors show a pronounced drop of 36% for the month of September with 86 new units registered against the 135 units registered in the same…
FTMTA National Conference 2015 The FTMTA National Conference will be held in The Heritage Hotel, Killenard, Co. Laois, on Friday, November 20th. The theme of the conference is "Driving Your Business Forward" and a panel of high calibre speakers will…
FTMTA Conference The FTMTA Conference for 2015 will be held in The Heritage Hotel, Killenard, Co. Laois, on Friday, November 20th. The theme of the conference is "Driving Your Business Forward" and a panel of speakers will address topics of…
Agricultural Mechanisation Degree Course Following a recent article in the careers pages of Irish Country Living about the Bachelor of Science (Agricultural Mechanisation) course in IT Tralee, FTMTA has received many calls from students who will sit the Leaving Certificate…
Family Businesses Focus at the FTMTA Conference The FTMTA Conference will be held in The Heritage Hotel, Killenard, Co. Laois, on Friday, November 20th. Given the predominantly family business nature of the farm machinery sector the presentation by Kieran McCarthy…