RURAL CONTRACTORS are being urged to keep abreast of changes to transport regulations on the use of agricultural machinery.

ANDREW COOMBE grew up with Massey Ferguson on his family’s farm at Te Aroha. Now he and his wife Anita own two dairy farms in Otorohanga and three MF tractors.

A REAR-MOUNTED mower uses a new middle attachment to cut even wider, says the New Zealand importer.

TAUMARUNUI FARMER Ron Carey sticks to a philosophy of ‘if it’s not broken, why fix it?’

A NEW mid-sized turbine has made setting up a wind and solar energy generation system more of an option for farmers, says Tecnico managing director Tony Pearson.

WHAT TO do when you’re loaned the Toyota Land Cruiser 70 to review? 

STORM CLOUDS rolled across Canterbury at record speeds earlier this month, causing huge damage and highlighting the need for fast communications to obtain new parts, locally and overseas, for damaged irrigators. 

THE MERGER of two prominent farm machinery brands, Fairbrother and Hooper, is starting to bear fruit.

A NORSEWOOD farmer whose used Kubota tractor (bought 17 years ago with five years service to its account) refuses to lie down, has relented and bought a new one.   

AS MUCH as 200,000 L of fuel are known to be pumped annually through one of many Sebco diesel stations on farms and in contractors’ yards, says the brand owner, Ed Harrison.