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While Chinese motor vehicle brands are becoming more commonplace on the roads of New Zealand, the same can’t be said about Chinese quad bike and side-by- sides on farms.

As the pressure mounts to reduce herbicide use and deliver chemicalfree food, farms growing ridge crops are faced with a problem of reducing weed burdens to maintain yields.

While much of the news coming from JCB is centred around its hydrogen combustion developments, it has also been looking at electric solutions as an alternative to its largely ICE-based machine ranges.

Sometimes less is more, meaning the need for technology isn’t always the answer, just a wellbuilt, simple machine to do a job efficiently.

Back in May, Claas announced the cessation of its Cargos loader wagon production, citing falling or at best static demand, while optimists suggested that the move would open the arena to other manufacturers to increase their market shares.

While Yardmaster shore-mounted stirrers have been around for a few years, health & safety compliance, innovation and ease of maintenance has been driving this product to a market leading position.

Most agricultural machinery manufacturers are struggling with increased order books, reduced component supply and increasing costs.

Nationwide crop packaging distributor ProAg-Wearparts has joined the Plasback on-farm plastics recycling scheme.

Following a four-year collaboration between global giants John Deere and Ford’s sustainable materials team, the duo set out with a goal of developing a prototype vehicle using waste streams converted into viable machine components.

German front-end loader specialists Stoll has recently introduced the new ProfiLine FZ and FS Series loaders, the first of which are just landing in New Zealand.