Rural News reported on the launch of Kubota’s RTV X850 recently, and now we’ve spent a week with the new sport/utility on Waikato dairy farms.

News media gathered recently at Highlands Motorsport Park at Cromwell, Central Otago saw Japanese giant Kubota launch three new products for farmers and heard it announce it will open a New Zealand subsidiary.

Sure to brew up a storm in New Zealand, a Dutch Kubota dealer is marketing a Black Edition of a 150hp M7151 tractor.

Kubota is busy shedding its image of being only a maker of compact or municipal tractors.

Now part of the Kubota Corporation, machinery manufacturer Kverneland is on a roll, particularly with new products coming to market.

Kubota has unveiled three new models that will replace its previous T series mower line-up.

Kubota NZ has added another machine to its KX series of excavators.

A compact (2.6t) excavator from Kubota cleverly puts the operator in the ‘big’ class.

During Kubota's recent celebration of 40 years in Australasia, dealers got their first look at the new BX 80 sub-compact tractors which will hit the shores of New Zealand in April 2018.

The new Kubota RTV-X1140 transforms from a two-passenger vehicle with a large cargo bed to one that carries four passengers and still retains a cargo bed.