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Unverferth Visit OZ Ag
June 2022 Recently we received a visit from Eric Myhre on behalf of our US Chaser Bin Supplier Unverferth Manufacturing Co, Inc. Unverferth have been operating in America since the early 1950’s and have been producing Chaser Bins since the 1980’s. With an initial design that has been improved upon across the last 40 years.…
Read MoreFavourable conditions set up season 2022
Ben and Karli Findlay farm at Weatherboard, north-west of Ballarat, at an elevation of 400 to 700 metres in an area subject to cool conditions, high rainfall and wind. They grow wheat, canola and faba beans and graze first-cross breeding ewes. We built a new airseeder machine and had to wait for parts, so seeding…
Read MoreMadara in The Weekly Times ‘Crop Gear’ May 2022
Madara is a relative newcomer to the Australian market, offering a rock picker and rake made in Bulgaria by one of that country’s biggest farm machinery manufacturers. Picker The Madara Agro rock picker is a reel-type picker with a working width of 1.52m. It is hydraulic-driven and comprises a lattice rake with replaceable teeth,…
Read MoreUS-made bins offered by Oz Value
Oz Value Ag offers a range of chaser bins which are made in Ohio, United States, by the Unverferth family. Unverferth owns and manufactures Brent, Killbros and Parker chaser bins in North America. The range covers an 1138 model (38 cubic metres capacity or about 30 tonnes of wheat) on a single axle, an 830…
Read MoreSpreading Bigger Benefits
A VERSATILE broadacre spreader out of South America is the latest new name to launch on the Australian farm machinery market. The first shipment of the Argentinian-built Fertec 9500 Series 6 trailing spreaders is expected within the next few weeks, to be handled exclusively in Australia by OzValue Ag in Ballarat. Sales manager Mitch Blackmore…
Read MoreGrowers weigh high cost of inputs with new season promise
Each year GroundCover™ follows a group of growers from across Australia as they manage the cropping season. In this first instalment for 2022, Melissa Marino introduces this year’s participants. Victoria Ben and Karli Findlay farm at Weatherboard, north-west of Ballarat at an elevation of 400 to 700 metres in an area subject to cool conditions,…
Read MoreGTS Flexes Its Muscle
A NEW-LOOK header front from South America has landed in Australia and will be put through its paces at an introductory in-paddock demonstration next month. The GTS Flexer XS front, manufactured by GTS do Brasil, will be imported and distributed exclusively by Oz Value Ag Machinery, a company based in Ballarat with branches in Kingaroy…
Read MoreOz AG Launches in NSW
Recently Oz Value Ag Machinery expanded it’s operation into New South Wales, purchasing property and setting up in Wagga Wagga. Over the last few years more and more Oz Value had seen the business quickly grow throughout parts of NSW, across its entire range of products they have on offer. They saw a real opportunity…
Read MoreAgronomic finesse underpins winning crop
Sixth-generation Weatherboard grower Ben Findlay produced an award-winning wheat crop, pushing above 10 tonnes per hectare, on his family’s farm near Ballarat, Victoria. Photo: Clarisa Collis In most years, snow settles on the shoulders of an extinct volcano that dominates the landscape where six generations of the Findlay family have farmed their ‘Heathfield’ property in…
Read MoreBenchmarking project helps to close yield gap
Oz Value Ag’s Ben Findlay was one of Nine Australian grain growers earned top honours in the 2020 Hyper Yielding Crops (HYC) awards, a project encouraging the growth of hyper-yielding and more profitable crops of wheat, barley and canola by closing the gap on potentially achievable yields. The awards are part of GRDC’s HYC initiative,…
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