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We all know it’s easy to make money selling cars: get a clever geek to design something using CAD, build it, sell lots, bank the money and live the life of Riley with a bevy of dusky maidens, or toy-boys, in the Cayman Islands. Yeah right!
With the market for light trucks in New Zealand at around 20% of the total market for new vehicles, it’s no surprise the major vehicle manufacturers have large budgets to get their products in front of potential customers.
Fieldmaster from Pukekohe used its Fieldays site to show an interesting incarnation of its GMF series wide area mower.
The New Zealand market for off-road vehicles seems to know no boundaries, and over the last few years we have seen an evolution of quads into a new category called side-by-sides well suited to NZ farming practice.
Back in 1970 we were wearing tank-tops, tie dies and platform shoes, and mirror must have been in short supply, but the year marked the birth of a motoring genre that has just reached its 45th birthday.
One of the more interesting first-time exhibitors at National Fieldays was Storti, from Verona, NE Italy, showing a self-propelled, self-loading mixer wagon. This large machine was catching the eye of large scale dairy farmers.
Introductions of new technology in agriculture seem to be happening on a daily basis, and innovation in the dairy technology sector will reduce labour for the boring stuff and allow more time for better animal husbandry.
Pakarata sits on the western flanks of the Kaimai-Mamaku Ranges, at 335m altitude, overlooking Okororie in Waikato.
The rise in the number of families moving to the country and buying lifestyle blocks was always going to be good for the agricultural machinery industry.
Australian farmers Trevor and Anthea Saunders are dedicated Jersey breeders and their enthusiasm about their herd showed when we visited in late May.
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Wiht tight budgets this year, inexpensive improvements can be made to improve calf housing and conditions, says SealesWinslow nutrition and quality assurance manager, Wendy Morgan.
Adding yoghurt to colostrum gives it longevity and stops it from separating, says SealesWinslow nutrition and quality assurance manager Wendy Morgan.
About 30% of Australian dairy farmers are missing out on the advantages of a transition cow nutrition management programme, says Dairy Australia.
Leaders of a three-year trial into the relative profitability of palm kernel expresser (PKE), cropping or pasture-only systems think a system using pasture and PKE should bring the most returns.
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