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Origin Ag’s recent annual conference saw an opportunity for the company to showcase its existing and new products to sales teams and dealers from throughout NZ.
Origin Ag is New Zealand’s only farm machinery co-operative and owned by a group of farm machinery retailers.
It was set-up in 2004 to provide its members and their customers with high quality farm equipment directly from the manufacturers. Over time, the company has experienced formidable growth and has firmly positioned itself on the NZ farm machinery scene.
Managing director David Donnelly says cooperatives are founded on strong values, and Origin Ag puts these into practice every day.
The company imports its products directly from overseas manufacturers, including well-known names such as Pöttinger, Alpego, Bogballe, Hatzenbichler, Gascon and Joskin.
Its recent annual conference, held at the Mystery Creek Event Centre, used the main building to showcase the existing and new products to an audience of sales teams from throughout NZ. The event also brought together key personnel from overseas suppliers.
This included Jacques Duyckaerts from Joskin, Alex Zaffonato, export area manager of Alpego, Markus Gahleitner of Pöttinger Austria and Ben Mitchell, sales & service manager for Pöttinger in Australia.
European-based personnel explained the difficulties experienced during the Covid-19 and the Ukrainian tensions. They said this had led to short working, reduced production and difficulties in acquiring raw materials and components.
However, they all suggested that in the last six months or so there has been a move back to normality, with major investment in new factories and infrastructure and a host of new products in the pipeline.
With the grass harvest season approaching quickly, Origin took the opportunity to introduce the new Pöttinger TOP 882C twin rotor rake to their range of popular centre-delivery swathers.
Like its predecessor, the TOP 882C, the new machine is said to offer excellent tracking, manoeuvrability and high output. It has a working width of 7.7m – 8.80m and swath width adjustment of 1.3m to 2.6m.
Despite a rotor diameter of 3.7m, the transport height – without removing the tine arms – is still below 4m.
It features suspension control springs, working in conjunction with the MultiTast jockey wheel system and a 5-wheel chassis that delivers the best ground tracking and reduced dirt ingress in the forage.
The MultiTast wheel tracks hit the ground immediately in front of the tines and responds to each undulation. With the new TOP 882C, the new Flowtast glide bar is available as an option, replacing the conventional rotor chassis wheels, with a glide bar for particularly challenging ground conditions.
This system glides over uneven deep plugging, peat, holes and wheel marks, making it suitable for soft and damp soil conditions.
An extended machine life is ensured by using special wear-resistant plastic, with each glide bar consisting of five individually exchangeable 15mm thick plates.
An individual rotor lifting system – with electrical preselect for raking headlands and field borders – is also available as an additional option.
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With the biannual Italian EIMA machinery Expo less than a month away, Case IH has taken out a Technical Evolution award for the Advanced Vehicle Suspension system available on its Optum 360–440 series tractors.
The Advanced Vehicle Suspension system, available on Optum 360, 390, and 440 models, responds to changing conditions, automatically adjusting how the suspension reacts to absorbs shocks and controlling vehicle movement.
In operation, sensors monitor the vibrations transmitted from the tractor chassis to the operator cabin, allowing the system to adjust suspension damping in real time. The control system incorporates key priorities, such as comfort at lower speeds and stability as speed increases, while also reacting to factors such as lower tyre pressures, where the tyres absorb more of the initial shock.
Case IH said as suspension requirements change throughout the working day, as tractors move between the paddock and road transport, the system manages suspension response in the background as tasks, speeds and conditions change, leaving the operator without the need to make manual adjustments.
Richard Hollins, Optum series tractors global product manager, said: “Pioneering technology must earn its place in the working day. Farmers and contractors will judge an investment by what it delivers, including manageable ownership costs, dependable up-time and the versatility to tackle different jobs. With AVS, we are putting intelligent control to work for comfort and stability, without giving the operator another setting to manage.”
Organised by FederUnacoma, the Italian Agricultural Machinery Manufacturers Federation, the contest has been part of EIMA since 1986, with the Technical Evolution distinction awarded to products that introduce original improvements to solutions already manufactured or patented.
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