JAMES LUX, Papamoa Beach, has won the title of New Zealand’s top excavator operator, against 11 other contenders. The final took place at Central Districts Field Days, Feilding.

NEW HOLLAND has won the Tractor of the Year 2013 award in the Best of Specialised category with the T4060F. 

FINE weather and a jam-packed schedule pulled record crowds to the 2013 Northland Field Days this year, say organisers.

MID CANTERBURY Vintage Machinery Club’s 30^th anniversary event, Wheat & Wheels, next month, is shaping up large.

A NEW supplier in the side-by-side farm utility market, Avatar, offers two models: an 800cc an 1100cc, both with EFI petrol engines, CVT auto transmissions and, most importantly for hill country farmers, engine braking.

OPERATORS will be able to plant seeds in drier conditions with more confidence and travel between jobs easier with a new precision planter being imported by Tulloch Farm Machines. The company launched its 6M wingfold Monosem NX 2 pull-style planter at the Northland Field Days. 

PETER MOLLOY started contracting 43 years ago when he was 18 with a conventional baler doing 45000 bales in his first season.

CUSTOM SERVICE by sprayer/spreader firm Silvan is helping a Waikato/Bay of Plenty spraying contractor to pioneer a new way of fertiliser delivery.

THE SUBARU Forester is so well suited to rural use, it is astounding Subaru spend so little promoting it to the rural market.

A NEW way of handling grain could save grain farmers thousands and increase their mobility, says Farmgard marketing manager Scott Capper.