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A forecast model telling orchardists and their contractors when it is a good time to apply spray won an innovation award at the recent Hawke’s Bay Primary Sector Awards.

Within five days of picking up her calves in August 2020, Taihape farmer Sandra Fannin knew she was going to have trouble.

Andy Gower and his wife Ange have been operating Parawera Farm for 19 years, where they milk 350 dairy cows.

Robotic milking can open the door to many different management tools driven by data received in the farm office or via hand-held devices.

Always keen to listen to feedback from customers and implement suggested improvements, Advantage Plastics ensures its products evolve to meeting ever changing needs.

Case IH's introduction of AFS Connect, an option for its high horsepower tractor ranges, has now been rolled out across its popular Puma models.

According to numbers sourced from national authorities, 151,800 tractors were registered across Europe in 2023, of which 26,200 tractors (17%) were 37kW (50 hp) and under and 131,900 (83%) were 38kW and above.

Carrfields has launched a new partnership with Waikato-based Piako Tractors, where the latter will become the exclusive retailer and service provider of the German Horsch brand throughout the upper North Island.

For Otago farmers Michelle and Rogan Borrie, a newly constructed feed pad on one of their three farms has been a game changer.

CNH has sold its agricultural plough business, including the production facility in Sweden, along with the Overum brand name.