John Deere's PowerGard Maintenance and PowerGard Protection programmes are now available for the company's full range of professional turf equipment, including golf and commercial mowers, as well a ... [Full story]

An Allett pedestrian cylinder mower has featured in the BBC's Top Gear motoring show as one of a number of uniquely-British products selected to accompany the three presenters on an unofficial trade ... [Full story]

In recognition of the company's 175th anniversary in 2012, John Deere is offering an extra set of either Quick Adjust QA5 cutting units or standard verticut units for just £175 (or its euro e ... [Full story]

St Andrews Links has successfully transformed a damaged practice green affected by high traffic with Barenbrug's BAR All Bent grass seed mixture. Gordon McKie, course manager of the Old Course ... [Full story]

Here’s a terrific illustration of the benefits of overseeing golf greens with bent grasses for improved winter performance. This photo of Cheltenham-based Lilley Brook Golf Club’s frozen green ... [Full story]

Steven will be heading up the Bernhard European sales team, with responsibility for market development in the UK and the wider European market in conjunction with our distribution partners. An as ... [Full story]

The Toro on Tour roadshow reached its final pit-stop of 2011 at The Belfry golf resort in the West Midlands recently, bringing the turf maintenance machinery manufacturer's tour of the country to a ... [Full story]

Greenkeeping legend Walter Woods has penned his autobiography. Packed with wisdom and anecdotes from the former St Andrews Links course manager's impressive career, 'Walter Woods: memoirs of a ... [Full story]

A Merseyside golf club's decision to switch from outright ownership of its Toro turf machinery fleet to an Operating Lease has proved a hit with the club's committee and greenkeepers alike. &n ... [Full story]

Now less than a year away from its official opening in July 2012, Trump International Golf Links Scotland has employed a comprehensive fleet of John Deere course maintenance equipment since the ... [Full story]

John Deere has announced that the company is withdrawing from the turf irrigation business, which has been developed over the past six years in partnership with US manufacturer Signature Control Sy ... [Full story]

John Deere dealers of tomorrowA number of changes have been made to the John Deere turf dealer network as part of the company’s Dealer of Tomorrow initiative. In the south-east of England, Godfreys i ... [Full story]

Productivity is the key for the greenkeeping staff at Royal Cromer Golf Club in Norfolk, and a new fleet of John Deere equipment worth £330,000, supplied by dealer Ben Burgess of Norwich, is n ... [Full story]

Machines from John Deere's newly expanded 2012 product range for golf courses and amenity turf will be featured at BTME & Clubhouse 2012 in Harrogate (mainstand no. M52). These include the ... [Full story]

Garon Park Golf Complex in Essex has become the latest club to benefit from an all-new Toro Golf Decoder Controller (GDC) irrigation system, installed by specialist sports turf contractor MJ Abbott ... [Full story]

Chesterfield purchases two Toro Reelmaster Sidewinder mowersas part of major bunker renovation programme When Chesterfield Golf Club undertook a three-year bunker renovation programme, they kne ... [Full story]

John Deere turf dealer The Double A Trading Company of Cupar, Fife, has been appointed to take over the Aberdeenshire area from the previous dealership, Alpha Plus Groundcare. At the same time ... [Full story]

Matt Perks, first assistant greenkeeper and mechanic at Ham Manor Golf Club in West Sussex, has followed in his mentor's footsteps by winning the title of Toro Student Greenkeeper of the Year 2011. ... [Full story]

Toro’s first diesel model – the Workman MDX-D – has the power and endurance to go the distance! New from Toro is the Workman MDX-D, the turf machinery manufacturers first mid-duty utility ... [Full story]

Global manufacturer Kawasaki experienced high levels of interest throughout the recent Saltex exhibition despite the inclement weather conditions that plagued the first day.  Of particular in ... [Full story]

The European team captained by Alison Nicholas took time out from their preparations for this weekend's Solheim Cup match with the US to have their photograph taken with two John Deere mowers in fr ... [Full story]

John Deere Financial has announced a newinterest free finance programme for this autumn, aimed at all golf and bowls clubs in the UK. Under the terms of this latest credit scheme, customers may or ... [Full story]

Historic Mower in Part exchange for the very latest greens mowing technology  Ransomes Overgreen mower circa 1945 helps fund Jacobsen Eclipse 322 In one of the strangest part-exchange ... [Full story]

Showing for the first time in the UK at IOG SALTEX on the DJ Turfcare stand (D24) was the PLUGGER PL855Pro HD which has an optional stand-on, ride-behind platform called the Step Saver.  This t ... [Full story]

Following the establishment of Deere & Company's worldwide Agriculture & Turf Division as a single business unit in May 2009, the company has been restructuring its sales & marketing o ... [Full story]

Among a raft of new product introductions from Sanli at this year's show are a high quality 17in pedestrian roller drive mower and super-manoeuvrable petrol zero-turn rider mower, both machines making ... [Full story]

Profusion Environmental Limited may be a new company established to offer a wide range of services to the sports turf, domestic and landscape industries, but its founders are by no means new comers ... [Full story]

Massey Ferguson has strengthened its position in the sub-50hp compact tractor sector with the introduction of the MF 1532 H, a completely new hydrostatic transmission model powered by a 32hp three- ... [Full story]

Exceptional results have been achieved by Sanli hand-held equipment in independent Hand- Arm Vibration (HAV) tests carried out under actual working conditions by the Fivesquared brand of industrial ... [Full story]

Solution from tees to greens A combination of machinery finance, hybrid mowers and a full five-year service agreement has provided a Lancashire golf club with a hassle-free, environmentally fr ... [Full story]

The Berkshire Golf Club’s Ian Morrison has become the first UK course manager to inherit a Toro Golf Decoder Controller (GDC) irrigation system. Accurate, efficient and cost-effective, GDC has proved ... [Full story]

Royal Troon Golf Club in Ayrshire has been installing its first John Deere irrigation sprinkler heads, supplied by dealer Nairn Brown (Glasgow) Ltd.  Greens, tees and pathways on The Old Course ... [Full story]

John Deere Credit has announced a newinterest free finance programme for the John Deere 8700 PrecisionCut fairway mower.  Anyone ordering a new 8700 mower from John Deere dealers in the UK and I ... [Full story]

John Deere and its dealers Godfreys, Alpha Plus Groundcare and Dublin Grass Machinery are the exclusive suppliers of golf course maintenance equipment in 2011 to The Open Championship at Royal St Ge ... [Full story]

John Deere's new SL Series PrecisionCut walk-behind greens mowers for 2011 have been designed to save greenkeepers and grounds staff time and money, and provide a top quality finish on golf courses ... [Full story]

A West Midlands businessman has introduced a new low-cost solution to the ongoing problem of machinery theft. The Block Stem agricultural and plant security system is suitable for tractors, constru ... [Full story]

LingfieldPark raises standards A unique package is now on offer at Lingfield Park Racecourse in Surrey – a round of golf on what is soon to be a PGA championship course, an afternoon or evening ... [Full story]

John Deere dealership Masons Kings has been appointed to take on the sale, service and support of John Deere's full line of professional turf and homeowner equipment ranges in Cornwall, previously ... [Full story]

Tired of stop-starting your aerator to change broken and bent tines, or unclog cores? Losing precious man-hours and money buying and applying new ones? What about time wasted collecting core-debris ... [Full story]

The popular Shelton Supertrencher  560 machine for sportsturf drainage has been radically redesigned for 2011. A number of the features embodied in the larger Supertrencher + machines now appea ... [Full story]

John Deere has added a new two-wheel drive model to the 5E range of utility tractors. The 55hp open station 5055E is the only model in the range offered with 2WD, but otherwise features the same speci ... [Full story]

The machinery fleet at Rochford Hundred Golf Club in Essex is now almost all John Deere, with new arrivals for 2011 including a 4520 compact tractor with cab and 400CX front loader, and an Aercore ... [Full story]

Caesarea Golf and Country Club, founded by Baron James de Rothschild and situated on the Israeli coast midway between Tel Aviv and Haifa, has purchased a fleet of E-Z-GO electric RXV golf cars fro ... [Full story]

GARY MUMBY, managing director of BLEC, reports optimism for the year ahead with sales of four machines at BTME, Harrogate, and an increase in exports. "Harrogate was a good show for us with sales ... [Full story]

John Deere has teamed up once again with the English Golf Union as sponsor of the EGU's spring Golf Environment Roadshows, which are taking place around the country during early March 2011. The full l ... [Full story]

Northern Ireland has had its fair share of rainfall in recent weeks but this hasn't detracted from the demands of the 1000 members of the Bangor Golf club who insist upon maximum course availability ... [Full story]

John Deere is pleased to announce that the Farol branches at Milton Common in Oxfordshire and Hinckley in Leicestershire have been signed as new turf & utility equipment dealers, complementing the ... [Full story]

With snow and ice continuing to cause problems all over the UK and Ireland, a new special offer from John Deere is designed to help a range of customers cope, from contractors, local authorities an ... [Full story]

SGC Group Ltd have taken delivery of the very 1st of Shelton’s new Supertrencher 760. Having used Shelton machinery on many occasions, SGC have had a new Supertrencher at the top of their wish list fo ... [Full story]

John Deere's new version of the Series II 1600 Turbo WAM out-front rotary mower features as standard a Stage IIIB (Interim Tier 4) engine to meet the latest emission standards, a fully adjusta ... [Full story]

Replacing the 22hp MF 1523H in Massey Ferguson’s 1500 Series compact tractor line-up is the MF 1525H which features a number of important enhancements over its predecessor. These include upgrades to ... [Full story]

Ransomes Jacobsen Introduces Electric Version of Eclipse 322 Greens Mower Operating costs reduced by up to 86%The new all-electric Jacobsen Eclipse 322 Ransomes Jacobsen, has introduced the latest edi ... [Full story]

It was the end of an era recently when the last G-Plex III ride-on greens mower rolled off the Ransomes Jacobsen production line at their Ipswich manufacturing facility.This was the 3,536th G-Plex bui ... [Full story]

One of the National Trusts flagship properties, Cliveden House in Buckinghamshire once the family home of the Astors and later more infamously associated with the Profumo affair has a newly expanded f ... [Full story]

If you could talk to the animals at Chester Zoo, they’d probably say how good the lawns and paddocks look after their John Deere machines have been at work.The zoo currently runs a Z425 zero-turn mowe ... [Full story]

It’s an unqualified thumbs-up from SANLI as the company looks back on its first full year of trading within the United Kingdom and Ireland.  Starting off 2010 as a brand-new entrant to the outdo ... [Full story]

An important new application has been found for Turfmech’s SQRL walk-behind green sweeper.Extending the SQRL’s primary function of collecting and removing hollow cores, scarified material and other de ... [Full story]

As part of its continuing commitment to investigate technologies that are both customer-valued and environmentally responsible, Toro offers propane-powered Z Master® G3 zero-turn mowers with clean ... [Full story]

The Jacobsen Eclipse 322 has been honored in the IDSA's Industrial Design Excellence AwardsThe Jacobsen Eclipse 322 riding greens mower has been honored in the Industrial Designers Society of America ... [Full story]

Jacobsen GP400Ransomes Jacobsen, a Textron Inc company and one of the leading manufacturers of golf course maintenance equipment worldwide, has announced the launch of the Jacobsen GP400 ride-on tripl ... [Full story]

Power steering, improved braking and suspension and increased load capacity are among 13 new features on John Deere’s latest XUV Gator utility vehicle, which is now the fastest and most powerful dies ... [Full story]