NZ looking for innovators
Applications are open for New Zealand’s most prestigious and innovative agricultural awards. The 2017 Fieldays Innovation Awards seek to celebrate and support New Zealand’s most innovative agricultural inventions and showcase emerging products and technology that will lead change in the rural sector. Source: AFDJ eNews Applicants in the awards will showcase their ideas, designs and products at the […]
CLASS’ mobile RTK
CLAAS has released a mobile RTK base station that provides high accuracy for automatic steering systems in any location, however remote. Source: AFDJ eNews CLAAS Harvest Centre Product Manager – Precision Farming, Travis Ryan-Salter says RTK FIELD BASE is ideal for use in regions that are unserviced by a RTK base station network or have poor mobile phone coverage. “Automatic steering systems […]
Case IH apprentice wins bronze at WorldSkills
A young apprentice from Western Australia has taken out the bronze medal in Heavy Vehicle Mechanics at the 2016 WorldSkills Australia National Competition in Melbourne recently. Source: AFDJ eNews Cameron Lennox, a third year heavy plant mechanic apprentice at Cunninghams Ag Service in Moora, earned his spot in the National Finals after winning the state […]
Aussie farm production to top $60b
Good news continues for much of the Australian farming sector, following on from last week’s record winter crop forecast, with the gross value of farm production set to increase by 6%, topping $60 billion in 2016–17 for the first time, according to the latest Agricultural Commodities report. Source: AFDJ eNews Deputy Prime Minister and Minister […]