FOR SOMEONE who has not done a lot of competitive ploughing, Colin Millar, of Rotorua (formerly of Reporoa), has come to the fore in this farming 'sport'.

A NEW 'sub-compact' utility tractor (1 series JD 1023E and 1026R), for work around home, will run implements and mow large volumes of grass with a high quality of cut, the maker says.

A SIMPLE new overload-protection device for Fella disc mowers (those with compact angle drive) prevents costly damage to the cutter bar, reports CB Norwood Distributors.

US ATV maker Polaris has launched another "extreme performance' 4x4 side-by-side machine: the RZR XP 4 900 with grunt – 88hp.

AN UNKOWN tractor collector has said "All machinery and tractors are man-made, except John Deere; God sent them direct."

‘WISH ME luck as you wave me goodbye’ go the words of the old song. 

HAY BALE 'bundling' (collecting, stacking, tying) is said to be easy with a new machine from Giltrap Agrizone, Otorohanga and Cambridge.

SOW GRASS into existing pasture, or sow grass or forage crops into cultivated ground, or over-sow and fix pugged paddocks – it's over to you, says Orgin Agroup of its new Hatzenbichler tine harrow with broadcast air seeder.

C-DAX HAS won a 2011 Innovators Award for the pasture meter it developed with Massey University.

GETTING ALONG at 13km/h during secondary cultivation and stubble burying impresses Hawkes Bay farmer and contractor Doug Drummond, using a Farmgard RZ Series multi disc cultivator, says the machine supplier.