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Newdegate Machinery Field DaysBrookton’s Eagle Eye among Newdegate award winners

Innovative designs, unique ventures and educational endeavours were celebrated at the Newdegate Machinery Field Days exhibitor awards ceremony.

Shannon Verhagen

Newdegate Machinery Field DaysPlans to take ‘Muscle Mite’ to schools to educate

The 1988 Mini Moke with a Mini Minor engine has a long history promoting road safety with the Livestock and Rural Transport Association of WA, dating back almost 30 years.

Shannon Verhagen

Dowerin GWN7 Machinery Field Days‘Ag is on the up’ — WA industry booming

If you ask around about the state of agriculture in WA at the moment, there is a general consensus that it is an exciting time to be in the industry.

Shannon Verhagen

Newdegate Machinery Field DaysPresident ‘honoured’ to be part of 49th Field Days

The idea of the Blue Tree Project combined well with our theme of Growing Mental Health and now has made a prominent impact on the landscape as you enter the field days.

Craig Newman

New DealershipPremiumWheatbelt Equipment dealership opens in Merredin

Eastern Wheatbelt farmers have another machinery dealership and two more brands at their fingertips with the opening of Wheatbelt Equipment Merredin this week.

Cally Dupe

streamlined journeyPremiumNew truck permits to allow Perth access via Greenmount

WA truckies forced to unhook trailers or detour for hours on “undesirable routes” due to State Government red tape are hoping a new permit system will streamline their journeys into Perth.

Shannon Verhagen

Long journeyPremiumChamberlain 9G Tractor Club’s long journey

“We re-did the trip in 2010 and were supposed to do it again last year but that was cancelled due to COVID-19 so now we’re just doing a run around the Eastern Goldfields.”

Carwyn Monck

Mingenew Midwest ExpoMingenew machinery section busiest it’s been ‘in years’

Sales are up across the State as agribusinesses recover from years of drought, sending machinery businesses into overdrive sourcing products, putting on extra staff and taking on more apprentices.

Shannon Verhagen

Newdegate Machinery Field DaysNewdegate’s ‘can-do’ attitude a stand-out

“It’s a very small town that can drag in 15 to 16,000 people to a field days each year, and they’ve been doing that for close on 50 years now. That says something about the community.”

Adam Poulsen

Newdegate Machinery Field DaysThe official Newdegate Machinery Field Days program

This year’s event will be held on September 1 and 2, with the theme: Growing Mental Health

Right to RepairMachinery brands back right to repair with caveats

Some of the nation’s biggest machinery brands have thrown their support behind farmers lobbying for the legal right to maintain and repair their own machinery.

Cally Dupe

Labour ShortagesPremiumWAFarmers’ Bootcamp to Employment heaped with praise

A senior figurehead at one of WA’s major machinery dealerships says WAFarmers’ inaugural Bootcamp to Employment is the “best and most exciting avenue” for attracting staff he has been involved in.

Cally Dupe

COVID cancellationTMA’s annual conference canned

Australia’s biggest machinery conference has been cancelled after Victoria was plunged into another snap lockdown this morning.

Adam Poulsen

New TechnologyData exchange key to top productivity

CLAAS and Bayer have teamed up to enable the exchange, analysis and use of precision agriculture data across different machinery and farm management programs.

40 Under 40 AwardsSeed Terminator inventor crushes 40 Under 40 Awards

An inventor who created the Seed Terminator weed crushing machine five years ago has taken out the Rural and Regional Award in South Australia’s 40 under 40 Awards.

Soil healthKalannie farm gears toward soil health

Soil health and liming have been a strong focus for the Hathway family near Kalannie, and since using Morrell lime reserves they have geared up to support their amelioration program.

MACHINERY BOOMLending points to confidence boost

The Australian agriculture sector is capitalising on improved seasonal conditions and government incentives, including the instant asset write-off scheme to invest in farm equipment.

Carbon AgProbe boosts carbon data gathering

A new high-definition soil mapping and furrow sensing module is set to help WA growers collect carbon data and other key soil measurements on farm.

CASE IHConnect with Case IH

Following hot on the heels of last year’s launch of the next-generation AFS Connect Magnum comes a similar makeover for the flagship of Case IH’s machinery fleet, the Steiger.

Training boomBoom drives training push in the regions

There are a few more fresh faces in AFGRI Equipment’s Esperance branch this year, with a surge in demand for machinery seeing apprentice intakes boom.

Shannon Verhagen

Seed DestructorSeed Destructor tackles weed toll

Destroying weed seeds via their harvesters was always going to be a natural progression for the Boultbee family near York.

Treasure familyBrothers Treasure integrated system

The Treasure farming family at Moonyoonooka near Geraldton were early adopters of harvester-integrated weed seed control and now believe they have the ideal system to help keep weed numbers down.

Afrgi equipmentPremiumDealer to close Pingelly and Wagin branches

A senior AFGRI Equipment figurehead says a decision to close its Pingelly and Wagin branches and consolidate them into a $1.2 million Narrogin branch was “not easy” but “unavoidable”.

Cally Dupe

Class resultsCLASS posts strong results despite COVID-19 shutdowns

CLAAS has posted a 3.7 per cent increase in global sales to $A6.3 billion, despite the coronavirus pandemic and shutdowns in production.