In the rolling country of the South Waikato, where the land stretches green and steady between Tokoroa and Putaruru, a family business has quietly grown into one of the region’s most reliable contracting outfits. Putt Contracting, founded and run by Chris Putt, began in the most modest of ways nearly two decades ago with nothing…
Having built up business over the past decade, West Coast contractor Matt Knight has relied on Pottinger grass harvesting equipment. The Pottinger gear he currently runs includes a loader wagon, triple mower conditioners, rake and tedder. MJ Knight Contracting is based at Ahaura in the Grey Valley, midway between Greymouth and Reefton. Matt and his…
Two powerful Alpego implements have helped a Waikato farmer make the jump from dairying to cropping. Graeme Disher says he decided to convert his 100-ha dairy farm at Paewhenua, near Otorohanga, to a purely maize-growing operation. “I had grown some maize over the last 10 years so two years ago I stripped out some of…
When Canterbury farmer; Craig Clucas was looking for a new rear mower, a mate suggested he consider getting a Pottinger Craig purchased a Pottinger NovaCat 442 rear-mounted disc mower, with a 4.3m cutting width, six years ago and has not looked back since. He went for a large 10-disc mower for cutting grass seed and…
A cutting-edge Waikato maize grower and contractor is using a high-spec Bogballe Fertiliser Spreader to avoid overlaps and do variable rate application of Nitrogen, Potash and other products. Paul Hunter farms near Te Awamutu. He belongs to a group of farmers who are working with an agronomist and precision ag specialist David Densley to improve…
With his tridem-axle Pottinger loader wagon, Hauraki Plains contractor Richard Flint can now harvest grass on peat soils without getting bogged. Richard’s company RK Flint Contracting Ltd, mainly looks after dairy farmers from a base near Ngatea. He and his team do pretty much everything farmers need – precision planting, bulk silage, baling, spraying, fertiliser…
North Auckland contractor Wayne Preston says the strength of his Alpego heavy-duty power harrows and subsoiler are a big asset for his business and a huge bonus on his client’s undulating ground. Wayne and his wife Nicola’s business; Hilltop Harvesting, is based on the southeast side of Brynderwyn Hills. They offer a range of services…
Waikato contractor’s Langsford N&G employ 22 full-time staff, which requires different income streams throughout the year. these include the usual suspects – baling, cultivation and drilling – but Langsford offers additional services as well. Its fleet of trucks is one of these and its latest addition is three JOSKIN KTP tipping trailers. Based in Cambridge,…
After nearly three decades, mid-Canterbury contractor Neil Baxter has given up his balers and now runs three Joskin slurry tankers to cart milk waste and whey from the Fonterra factory in Darfield. Neil and his wife Raewyn run Baxter Ag Ltd from their home in Sheffield. The contracting business does cultivation, effluent removal and spreading.…
Duncan and Nicky Anderson milk 1650 cows on Auchenbrae Farm in Rotherham, North Canterbury. On their run-off block, they have another 900 yearlings. That is a lot of mouths to feed, especially as Duncan and Nicky grow all their own winter feed. This includes 100ha of fodder beet, swedes, kale, rape and oats. They also…