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App helps optimise harvest profitability

Southern NSW harvesting contractor Rod Gribble developed the HarvestCalc app.

A simple $22 app can save grain growers tens of thousands of dollars each year by optimising the efficiency and productivity of all makes and models of combine harvesters.

Carrier XL cuts a wide swathe

Vaderstad has added the new 7.25-metre-wide, XL 725 to its Carrier XL range of disc cultivators.

Tillage, drilling and planting specialist Vaderstad has expanded its offering with the addition of the new 7.25-metre-wide, XL 725 to the Carrier XL range of disc cultivators – spanning working widths from 4.25 to 12.25 metres.

Turn automation for JD combines

John Deere claims that automating the headland turns makes operating the harvester easier and more precise.

The latest round of software updates for Gen 4 Displays and the John Deere Operations Center.

Electric power on show

New Holland’s T4 Electric Power utility tractor is the first zero-emission, light utility tractor with no internal combustion engine.

The New Holland T4 Electric Power utility tractor will be making its European debut at November’s Agritechnica 2023.

AGCO to take majority stake in Trimble

The plan is to leverage multi-channel access across Trimble Ag, and AGCO OEMs, which include Fendt, Challenger, Massey, Valtra, and Gleaner.

Global agricultural machinery manufacturer AGCO is set to become a majority owner of Trimble’s precision agriculture business.

An around the world approach to fighting drench resistance

Internal parasites, or worms, cost the livestock industries in New Zealand, Australia and Europe over $4 billion annually in lost production.

Beef + Lamb New Zealand is seeking global partnerships as it works to revolutionise internal parasite management in the face of increasingly widespread drench resistance.

Sheep milking wool's future?

Canterbury sheep farmer and woolgrower Joe Catherwood has diversified into sheep milking. Photo Credit: Kim Lewis.

Long-time Canterbury sheep farmer and woolgrower Joe Catherwood has diversified into sheep milking.

Another tough year ahead!

B+LNZ is warning that some sheep and beef farmers are unlikely to make a profit this coming season.

Beef + Lamb New Zealand warns that the country's meat producers face another tough year as demand for sheep and beef recovers slightly, but not enough to outweigh increases in on-farm costs.

Lowdown on low methane sheep

Dan Brier says breeding low-methane genetics is part of Beef + Lamb New Zealand’s Cool Sheep programme.

OPINION: More than 100 farmers, rural professionals and international researchers recently took part in a webinar about breeding toward low-methane genetics as part of Beef + Lamb New Zealand’s Cool Sheep programme.

Time for rural bank inquiry

Feds Richard McIntyre says the rural lobby is calling for the new Government to support an independent inquiry into rural banking.

OPINION: Farmers are doing it tough right now with rising costs, bad weather and falling payouts.

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Editorial: What next?

No clearer message could have been sent to the outgoing Labour Government by rural NZ than Damien O’Connor’s loss of West Coast/ Tasman.

OPINION: As predicted there was a definite mood for change in rural and provincial New Zealand at this year's election.

Gumboot diplomacy!

OPINION: Your canine crusader notes that the new parliament will have a fresh array of new MPs from farming backgrounds taking up seats in the nation's capital.