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Water ballast vs wheel weights for agricultural tyres
10 December 2025

Liquid ballast vs wheel weights

Your tractor tyre model determines your load capacity. Agricultural tyres are solid, but not sufficiently so to cope with any level of load and you must take this into account when it comes to choosing your ballast. Adding too much weight to your combination vehicle can effectively be...
Water ballast vs wheel weights for agricultural tyres
10 December 2025

Liquid ballast vs wheel weights

Your tractor tyre model determines your load capacity. Agricultural tyres are solid, but not sufficiently so to cope with any level of load and you must take this into account when it comes to choosing your ballast. Adding too much weight to your combination vehicle can effectively be...
Firestone’s RDT 23 agricultural tyre for a self-propelled wide-span sprayer
29 November 2025

Choosing the best tyre for a self-propelled wide-span sprayer

Choosing the best tyres for a self-propelled sprayer equipped with wide-span spray booms has never been a simple task. Depending on the weight of your machine when loaded, the size of the booms, or even whether it operates in small or large-scale areas, the requirements in terms of the tyres vary...
Which agricultural tyre lets you do more with the same tyre size?
07 October 2025

Which agricultural tyre lets you do more with the same tyre size?

Every little detail counts when it comes to maximising your yield. Your implements and equipment are generally chosen for their sturdiness and efficiency, but what about your tractor tyres? They are neglected too often, but play a key role in the productivity and preservation of your soil. Imagine...
Efficient agricultural tyre for mixed polycropping-livestock farming
30 September 2025

Which agricultural tyre is most efficient for mixed polycropping-livestock farming?

Choosing a tractor tyre is not a decision to be taken lightly. Behind this apparently basic choice lies an element that is actually important in terms of farm performance, especially in mixed polycropping-livestock farming where the extensive range of activities requires more versatility. Working...
Vineyard tyres to avoid soil compaction
18 August 2025

Vineyard tyres: why choose a tyre that is adapted to vine growing?

Vine growing is an extremely specific agricultural activity, due to the form of the crop, but also because of the type of soil or the steep sloping agricultural land. All these particularities make it necessary to have appropriate equipment to make certain that you don’t damage the vines with tyres...
Wide Maxi Traction IF tyres to optimise your tractor’s power-to-weight ratio
23 July 2025

Which agricultural tyre best optimises the power-to-weight ratio?

Your choice of agricultural tyres is an essential lever in terms of getting the most power from your tractor. While your engine may be high-performance, a large part of this energy can be lost due to unsuitable tyres. The quality of your equipment is decisive as the tyre represents the only point...
Firestone Maxi Traction Tyres
12 June 2025

How to change the size of my tractor tyres?

When you buy a tractor, it is designed for standard use, on a standard farm, and is equipped with standard tyres to optimise the overall cost of the machine. The manufacturer cannot know all the details of your farm so the original tyres, designed to correspond to a maximum of users, are not...
Maxi Traction IF tyre – ideal for optimising traction
30 May 2025

Improve traction by choosing the right agricultural tyres

You have invested in a powerful tractor, convinced that engine power will be enough to guarantee your productivity and your rapidity. Yet you regularly note that your tractor has trouble transmitting this energy smoothly to the ground. Why is there such a loss of efficiency despite the...
Jacking up the tractor
29 April 2025

13 safety rules for operations involving agricultural tyres

We don’t generally give it much thought, but when we talk of accidents linked to tyres, we tend to think about speed on the road or the explosion of a tyre due to excessive loads. These two points seem to be under control, because everyone knows that driving too fast or loads that are too heavy are...
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