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.

THE WANGANUI Dog Trial Centre has started fundraising to enable it to hold the New Zealand championships at Mowhanga, near Taihape, in 2015. 

The Metalform Tow and Fert liquid fertiliser mixer/spreader is good for much more than spreading fertiliser, says Northland dairy farmer James Brady.