A VERSATILE 9-tine Jumbo Buster Ripper has slashed cultivation time by 60-90 hours for Northland farmer Sam Burke.

A NEW Zealand company's 'revolutionary' brushcutter blade that won a 2011 product-of-the-year award from the Australian Outdoor Power Equipment Association got its start chiefly through National Field Days and with crucial help from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.

THE SUBARU Legacy X could be seen as the answer to a question nobody was asking: a high-riding all-wheel-drive (AWD) sedan.

FARMING’S ONLY tractor designed specifically for rubber tracks has emerged in a new series with two models, reports the maker, AGCO.

THE NEW Kia Sorento R is more sophisticated and starts at a lower price than the outgoing model, says Kia Motors.

YOU LEARN from your mistakes, observes quad loading-ramp supplier Ian McNeill, of Macs Equipment.

TE PARI Products new Cattlemaster iDraft cattle crush is said to be getting the ‘thumbs up’ from Lochiel Farms, Franklin, general manager Kim Robinson. The 3600ha farm has bought two units.

A FLAT floor and a remarkable sense of cab space distinguish the new T4 tractor range from New Holland.

NEW MASSEY Ferguson mowers and rakes are said to be making a measurable difference to Phil Hawke’s Waikato contracting business.  Chiefly he bales silage, 30,000 big round and square bales being a typical annual output.

KUHN’S LATEST centrally articulated mounted mower to use the maker’s patented ‘lift control’ facility is on offer for this season.