IN A bid to attract young farmers to ploughing, the Waikato Ploughing Match Association is staging a fun-filled ploughing instruction day for YFC members over the age of 15.

A NEW simple sheep weigher and drafter from Te Pari embodies technology well proven and respected, the company says, but without the full handling capability of its top-of-the-line ‘super handler’. 

TARANAKI CONTRACTOR Lloyd Gernhoefer’s new Kuhn VBP 2160 variable chamber BalePack is saving him time and labour with its simple bale-and-wrap operation, the machine supplier reports.

BALING CAPACITY is as much as 20% higher in Case IH’s new LB4 series large square baler than in previous models, the company reports.

NEW ZEALAND’S second-largest maker of calf milk replacers (CMR) produces them at one of the few plants approved by MPI for quality milk powder exports.

POWER FARMING Wholesale has just despatched a large consignment of tractors and equipment to Tuvalu, in the South Pacific.

MITSUBISHI ALREADY had a great car on its hands with the smart little ASX. 

WANTING TO avoid driving on hillsides while clearing surface drains, Kaiawa dairy farmer Paul Toft hit on an idea for an attachment to swivel his front loader bucket 23.5 degrees to left or right in the vertical plane.

A NEW wheeled version of Advantage Feeder’s NGF 1800 feeder can enhance a farmer’s management of supplementary feeding, says the company’s managing director Gerard Roney.

WHEN THE people from Isuzu NZ, and the local dealer, Manawatu Isuzu and Commercial, suggested testing the Isuzu D-Max Ute, I anticipated an interesting ride.