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 […]
New spare parts warehouse for Mahindra
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd announced the opening of its state-of-the-art spare parts warehouse in Mahindra World City (MWC), Jaipur, India. Source: AFDJ eNews This is one of the largest, most modern warehouses in the country and the company’s first in northern India, it will cater to the requirement of Mahindra customers in north and north […]
Kinze wants court to block Deere
As an antitrust lawsuit continues over John Deere’s intended acquisition of Monsanto’s Precision Planting subsidiary, Kinze Manufacturing finds itself pulled into the fray. Source: Agweb Earlier in November, Kinze filed motions that asks a federal judge stop Deere from accessing information about its own planting business. Jennifer Zwagerman, the associate director of the agricultural law centre at […]
Meet the Claas team Toowoomba
The CLAAS Harvest Centre, Toowoomba has opened for business and is celebrating with on Thursday 17 November. Source: AFDJ eNews From 12 – 4pm on the centre located at 51 Carrington Road Torrington in Toowoomba will have a range of machinery experts on hand to answer questions and you can book an on farm demo. All […]
Australian ploughing for a win
The intensity of concentration leaves Shayne Neal with a headache and a crick in his neck from constantly craning. But the pain is worth it, he says, to represent Australia at the World Ploughing Championships. Source: The Weekly Times Shayne, from Cape Otway, visited the UK in September to compete against 30 other countries in the conventional mouldboard ploughing […]
Ruralco insures for the future
Agribusiness Ruralco is expanding its insurance and retail operations as it seeks to turn around a 69% fall in full-year profit. Source: The Australian Ruralco is acquiring a 50% stake in insurer Ausure Consolidated Brokers and will merge it with assets of its Ruralco Insurance business. Also, wholly owned Ruralco subsidiary Roberts Ltd will acquire the business of […]
Heart of Harvest photo competition
Take your camera out into the field for a chance to win in the Case IH #HeartofHarvest Photo Contest. It’s pretty simple but you do you need Facebook and Instagram. Source: AFDJ eNews Take your photo then: Like CaseIH on Facebook (CaseIHAus) and follow them on Instagram (caseihaus) Post a photo on Instagram of what […]
Caning the drones
We hear plenty about satellite and drone technology and the possibilities for it in the farming space, but now trials in North Queensland are taking things even further. Source: ABC Rural Experts have been in Mackay testing direct autonomous control of tractors via satellite with the use of drones. Essentially the drones map the farm on a pre-determined […]
TOMRA to acquire Compac in NZ
TOMRA has signed an agreement with the owners of New Zealand’s Compac Holding Ltd to acquire 100% of the shares in the company. Source: Potatopro Compac is a New Zealand based manufacturer of lane sorting machinery for the fresh fruit and vegetable Industry. This system uses nearinfrared (NIR) for the non-invasive testing of the internal properties of produce. In […]
World’s Best Tractor Collector
A man on a tractor is an iconic image that will be forever linked to modern agriculture. For farmer and avid collector Bill Shanley his love affair with the machines led to him being crowned the World’s Best Tractor Collector by National Geographic in 2014. Source: ABC Rural Mr Shanley said he caught the bug when he drove his […]