Dear Santa, with just a week to go to Christmas Day, I’d thought I’d drop you a note.

While many industry watchers have been singing the praises of the latest and greatest innovations at the recent Agritechnica Event, held recently in Germany, agricultural journalists have been deliberating the winners of the Farm Machine of the Year 2024.

The farm machinery business has been extremely buoyant following the original onset of Covid-19 in mid- 2020.

Following 54 years of representation by the same importer and distributor, Kubota New Zealand and Tulloch Farm Machines have announced the transfer of Krone Agricultural Machinery distribution rights to Kubota.

It's remarkable that it is now 70 years since the first JCB backhoe loader was released on an unsuspecting world.

Massey Ferguson has announced the launch of the new MF 9S Series, which includes six models with powers from 285hp to 425hp.

Grassland specialists Kuhn has extended its Gyrorake offering with the addition of the GA 8731+ and GA 9531+ models.

Following much speculation, New Holland used last week’s giant Agritechnica event in Germany to finally show off its new flagship combine harvester.

Cultivation and seeding specialist LEMKEN has topped off its Rubin compact disc harrow range with massive ten-metre working width.

Canterbury-based Vantage New Zealand has recently acquired Carrfields soil moisture technology and services business.