If you were loaned a $1099 mobile phone to review, would you test its maker’s claims that it was drop-proof to 1.8m and waterproof at depths up to 5m?

Best known as the dairy capital of New Zealand, Waikato can also claim to be the nation’s home of tea. 

Quads and light utility vehicles (LUV) get a bad rap because operators’ poor skills and riding judgement cause crashes. Quality training can reduce such incidents.

Ploughing may be traceable back to the dawn of time, but the first real references date to the early 12^thcentury in Europe. 

New Holland Agriculture has updated the TD4F series orchard tractors to meet stage IIIB emissions regulations.

Te Pari Products, well known here and offshore, has since its founding in 1980 by Pete French, been in animal handling gear. 

John Deere has announced several updates to its S-series headers for 2019, to improve performance, ride quality and small grain harvesting efficiency. 

New Claas Disco Move 3600 and 3200 mowers, with mowing widths of 3.4 and 3m respectively, are designed for 1m of vertical travel and 30 degrees lateral movement, allowing efficiency and safety in rough paddocks.

Two new products added to the hum on the Rurtec stand at Fieldays last month.

The new Kuhn Performer 3000 (3m working width) extends the existing Performer 4, 5, 6 and 7m tine/disc, deep cultivator range, allowing cutting, mixing, soil loosening and consolidation in one-pass.