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TRS Tyre and Wheel (Yokohama TWS NZ Ltd) is the exclusive distributor of the Alliance Tyre brand in New Zealand, solidifying its position as a leading provider of specialised off-highway tyre solutions for the agricultural, construction, industrial, and forestry sectors.

While ploughing appears to become less fashionable than minimal tillage, it remains an important process in many areas.

A New Zealand startup is providing growers with vital information for daily operations and long-term vineyard management, using a unique and scalable AI vine scanner that gives a vine-specific view of disease, pruning, land productivity and yields. Forty Cropsy systems have been deployed throughout New Zealand, the United States and France, with more than 20 million vine scans conducted in the past 12 months.

The National Fieldays is an annual fixture in the farming calendar: it draws in thousands of farmers, contractors, and industry professionals from across the country.

CNH continues to reinforce its position in the New Zealand agricultural machinery market with the appointment of John Gilbert, previously New Zealand sales manager for CNH Capital, to the new role of business manager for its NZ operations.

While a leading New Zealand brand seems to have a stranglehold on the local electric fencing market, a company from the Green Isle seems to be making significant inroads, particularly in the Northern Hemisphere.

Recent results from its 2024 financial year has seen global farm machinery player John Deere record a significant slump in the profits of its agricultural division over the last year, with a 64% drop in the last quarter of the year, compared to that of 2023.

Kubota is thrilled to unveil three new models at National Fieldays this week.

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.

Dairy farm effluent has a part to play in complementing inorganic fertilisers, particularly as prices have risen over the last few years as a result of global conflicts.