When the annual Commonwealth Bank AgQuip farm equipment show rolls around each August, the small city of Gunnedah, New South Wales, Australia (where the event is held) gets inundated with visitors from virtually every region of the country, not to mention foreign visitors. In fact, the demand for hotel accommodations becomes far greater than what’s […] Read more
AgQuip, one of Australia’s premiere farm machinery shows
The large outdoor equipment expo near Gunnedah, NSW, attracts visitors from across the country
PHOTOS: AgQuip farm equipment show in Australia
AgQuip’s 64 acre outdoor site gets roughly 3,000 exhibitors and organizations jammed into it. An interesting mix of Australian-, European- and North American-built equipment and vehicles are on display which included three different brands of Canadian-built seeding equipment. The event has a strong attraction to urban residents, some of whom travel long distances to come and spend a day […] Read more
Cattle bred for Australia’s north
Grainews in Australia: With a little Canadian help, producers down under created Droughtmaster cattle
There probably isn’t a cattle farmer anywhere across the Canadian prairie in January that wouldn’t gladly trade places with an Australian farmer, particularly when the mercury disappears in the bottom of the thermometer. But the generally balmy climate down under isn’t without its challenges for stock growers either. The conditions cattle must contend with in the northern […] Read more
Crowning a king
One of the biggest friendly rivalries between farm boys is about which brand of pickup truck reigns supreme. Check the rear windows of pickups around town and you’ll see all kinds of graphics that let you know what that truck owner thinks of competitive models, like an image of the cartoon Calvin character doing something […] Read more
The agricultural perspective from down under
Grainews in Australia
In the past, we at Grainews have travelled far and wide to bring you, our readers, the latest and best information on farm machinery. We feel its our duty to do that. But this year we really got carried with ourselves and logged more miles in a single trip than ever before, and in the […] Read more
Field bins keep the combines rolling
Grainews in Australia: Portable grain bins can be spotted in fields to help improve harvest productivity
Seeing one definitely stops you in your tracks if you’re not familiar with the Australian field- or mother-bin concept. These grain carts on steroids are massive, with capacities up to 150 tonnes. But they’re not built to chase combines with. Instead, they’re placed in a field and grain carts — or “chaser bins” as they’re […] Read more
GM and Navistar team up
In simultaneous announcements, both General Motors and Navistar (the parent company of International-brand trucks) announced this week that they’ve been secretly courting each other; and they intend to get together formally, albeit in a limited way, to create a pair of new Class 4 and 5 medium-duty trucks that will wear GM badges. That will […] Read more
New Leader demos a broadcast spreader
Technology has caught up with dry product spreaders, resulting in much better spread patterns
In past years, the uses for dry-product broadcast spreaders have declined. Aside from forage growers, most producers have turned to more targeted fertilizer placement alternatives. But with the introduction of slow-release nitrogen products and the difficulty of handling large amounts of fertilizer in the short spring seeding season, many are re-examining their placement alternatives. So broadcast […] Read more
High-speed sprayers come to Canada
Two models offer mechanical four-wheel drive and lightning-fast road speeds
The model names of RBR Enterprise’s two sprayer/spreader models, Vector and Venturi, are both associated with speed, at least indirectly. That inference seems pretty appropriate for the 305 and 350 horsepower machines that can hit 52 m.p.h. (roughly 83 km/h) on the road. That kind of speed would seriously cut down travel times between fields. […] Read more
Pushing the limit
This week’s revelation that Volkswagon deliberately cheated on official emissions compliance procedures with its diesel-powered cars is…well…mind blowing. In case you haven’t heard, the brand inserted software into the ECUs in diesel-engined vehicles that detected when the cars’s emissions were being tested. During the tests, the cars behaved themselves and conformed to legally mandated tailpipe […] Read more
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