Elmore Field Days: Machine of the Year award winners
A CLEVER mini seeder and a seeder bar that has been on the Australian market for a couple of years were judged Machine of the Year winners at the Elmore Field Days last week.
A CLEVER mini seeder and a seeder bar that has been on the Australian market for a couple of years were judged Machine of the Year winners at the Elmore Field Days last week.
The Greenpro 6-in-1 Seeder, which can be towed behind an ATV or ute, picked up the Australian Machine of the Year.
The judge, Graham Brodie, from Dookie agricultural college, picked it out from those who entered the award ahead of Gason’s 12.8-tonne fertiliser spreader.
The other entrants in the award were the Bamawm Roller Mills concentrate adder and a grain buggy PTO unit from Bute Engineering.
Also impressing the judge was the Horsch 12N Sprinter seeder bar, which was first seen in Australia in 2014. It picked up the Imported Machine of the Year prize. Runner-up was the Claas Arion 440, which was launched in Australia at the Elmore Field Days.
It was a hotly contested award, with Kuhn’s excellent Axent 100.1 trailed fertiliser spreader, the Lely Welger RP180V round baler and the new V1200E wheel loader by Victory also in the running.
Winning the Advances in Technology & Innovation prize was the Davey Water Products Monsoon IQ pump controller.
The system allows remote monitoring and control for water pumps and pipped the Dingo Fencing Systems fencing machine for the award.
Meanwhile, Claas Harvest Centre Echuca picked up the Best Overall Exhibit ahead of Tenpack and Kuhn Australia.
Kioti gaining traction
Visitors to the recent AgQuip, Henty and Elmore field days had the opportunity of a first-up look at the latest offering from Kioti Tractors – the company’s new 115hp cab model.
Sow easy with prize seeder
Agricultural machinery manufacturer and supplier Knuckeys, of Winchelsea, won The Weekly Times Australian Machine of the Year Award.