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Offering models from 3600 to 20,000 litres, all HiSpec slurry tankers use a unique low-profile spreading system that increases controllability, while also decreasing air pollution, particularly offensive odours.

Traditional spreading via tankers or umbilical systems have typically discharged effluent onto splash-plates, resulting in small droplet sizes, which in turn lead to odours, but probably more importantly, the loss of nitrogen by volatilisation.

With last year’s spike in the cost of artificial nitrogenous fertilisers, there has been a renewed interest in using dairy effluent as a nutrient source, with additional benefits gained by increasing soil organic matter, leading to improved water holding, aeration and drainage.

With effluent becoming a more important part of farm management, particularly as an alternative to “bagged” fertiliser, the Fliegl range of tankers from the Power Farming Group looks to fit the bill in most situations.

While we continue to search for sustainable fuel alternatives to power agriculture’s prime movers, a glimpse into the not so distant future was given by CNH Industrial at its Tech Days held in Arizona at the end of 2022.

McIntosh of Palmerston North has a reputation for building feed equipment with a robust construction, clever engineering and a long working life.

Kubota New Zealand has recently added to its product line the new U10-5 excavator that will replace the existing K008-3.

There will be many advocates for different methods of crop drying, but the aim of on-floor crop drying is to get a totally uniform airflow across the whole floor.

Furrow presses can be useful for tilth breakdown, soil consolidation and moisture conservation.

A local phenomenon in Motueka has just celebrated 40 years in business.