Sadly the days of leaving your house unlocked or the keys in the car ignition are long gone and it appears commonplace to hear of someone in your locality who has been burgled. 

Rotary swathers have been the choice of farmers and contractors for producing large swaths to increase forager and balers outputs, so the new Kuhn GA 13131 from CB Norwood Distributors should interest those wishing to improve daily clearing rates.

Vaderstad has a long association with drills, the first production Rapid models drilling peas in Suffolk, UK, for supply to Birdseye in 1992.

Carlo Lambro, president of New Holland Agriculture, spoke in late June at the general assembly of The World Farmers Organisation, at Expo Milan 2015.

While the modern farm tractor runs almost exclusively on a diet of diesel, over the years we have seen derivatives running on bio-diesel and one unit out of Germany that ran on pure rapeseed oil (Canola).

Christchurch-based Forest Quip NZ is to market Tobrocco Machines’ Giant wheel loaders in New Zealand and Australia.

CB Norwood Distributors, importers of Vaderstad cultivators, has launched the maker’s Carrier L and XL cultivators.

When Smythe Contractors, Hautapu, recently won the contract to install the irrigation system for the new second drier being constructed at Fonterra Lichfield, it was a case of déjà vu. 

Warren Darling from Timaru knows a bit about growing barley, so much so he broke the Guinness World Record for the crop with 13.8 tonnes/ha in April, with crop harvested on January 23 this year.

Like many engineers, Des James’ early days were focussed on tractors.