“Farm equipment” means equipment that is used or intended for use in farming operations, including any combine, tractor, implement, engine, motor or attachment, but not including a motor vehicle.
Farm Tools – is a simple type of equipment which is used manually by a framer. Farm Equipment – are machines that are pulled behind and operated from the tractor. Farm Implements – are accessories which are being pulled by working animals or mounted to machineries.
It refers to a complex machine used for carrying out farming operations. Examples include: tractors, bulldozers, shellers, driers, and incubators. The most important implement or machines in the farm, which is used for operating many farm implements, is the tractor.
Axion 900 and Xerion 5000 series tractors
Regardless of your tractor affiliations and brand colours, I’d think you’d be hard-pressed to find a better-looking tractor than the Claas Xerion 5000.
It’s a brute of a machine that’s intended to go toe-to-toe with the “Yank Tanks” of the red or green persuasion, and Claas is adamant to show the world that its Xerion range can play ball in the high-horsepower game.
Rewinding back before the Covid pandemic, we spent the day with the Claas Axion 960TT and the Xerion 5000TS at a Claas facility in Germany. At that stage, the Xerion 5000TS was merely a concept and yet to be released to the world, while the Axion 960 featuring the new Terra Trac system had just received a substantial global launch at Agritechnica.
Naturally, our eyes were initially drawn to the Axion 960 and the Terra Trac, a flat ‘half-track’ system that had been trialled on the Lexion and Jaguar harvesters, now punched onto the rear of the brands’ flagship Axion tractor. It was an impressive tractor to look at.
Faresin 9.30C Agri GLS telehandler
is one of the newest machines to be added to the fleet at New Zealand distributor Jacks Machinery.
Brucie Donald from Jacks Machinery has sold more than his fair share of telehandlers over decades in the machinery business and is quite the fan of the Italian-made Faresin range.
The Faresin was being used for an array of jobs on a dairy farm just out of Whakatane, in New Zealand’s North Island. On the morning we arrived, it was ready to load the mixer wagon with silage and minerals to be fed on the feed pad later in the day.
Telehandlers are designed for loading tasks. They can do it safely, with sensors warning you if you are trying to operate the machine outside its safety margin.
With a 40-year history in the telehandler and mixer wagon business, Faresin seems to have things pretty well sorted. We were not entirely sure what to expect, initially. However, build quality is equal to that of other machines in this category.
Engine power and hydraulic flow certainly are not lacking, which are key factors for speed and function of a telehandler. At the end of the day, you could drive away in a Faresin telehandler for noticeably fewer dollars than most other brands, and have it do the same job and bring all the benefits a telehandler offers in terms of versatility and functionality.
Joskin trans-cap dumper silage trailer
It’s great to see this multi-purpose addition to the Joskin line-up. The fact that it’s not limited to being a one-trick pony and can be used for a range of tasks makes it a worthy contender when considering purchasing a new trailer.
Although grass and maize silage are almost done for the season, the ability to keep the trailer busy during the off-season hauling metal and soil would help justify the expense, or at least that’s what you could tell the accountant. Efficiency in having the right machine for the job helps drive productivity.
Key Takeaway
Mechanization can significantly bring down the cost of labor, particularly for labor-intensive crops such as rice, corn, and sugar. These equipment and mechanized procedures will definitely increase productivity.
