Before buying a tractor, you should first decide what it is going to be used for and whether you should rather consider purchasing a second-hand tractor. Thorough planning is the first step when buying expensive equipment and implements. Most commercial farmers need a tractor, but for many a newcomer, a…
New Holland has just revealed its methane powered concept tractor, taking a step to provide a self-sufficient fuel and lower carbon emission future for farmers. In practice, this means farmers with all the necessary resources won’t have to rely on fossil fuels to power their machinery, but can be energy…
PROMOTION Encroaching bush can take years and years for farmers to clear a few hectares of bush by hand to plant maize or soya or any other crop. In many parts, bush encroachment or invasion by alien plants are also problems. With a piece of equipment like Wuhlf's drum mulcher…
If you are in the second-hand business, you have to load and unload implements daily. A businessman from Cradock in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa converted an old hay rake into an ingenious device for loading ploughs, graders and other implements. You would have to search far and…
Here are a few agricultural implements for small-scale operations exhibited at the annual Nampo Harvest Day at Bothaville in South Africa. Prices are rounded-off and include Value Added Tax. Zambian Kwacha prices were calculated from the exchange rate at the time of publishing, and exclude any transport or export costs.…
We spoke to Mr. Jakkie van Heerden of Trelleborg Tyres about the right choice of tyre and the habit of filling it with water. The purpose for which the tractor is used should also determine your choice of tyre. Jakkie says it’s no good putting cheap rubber on an expensive…
Tyres have become some of the most expensive and sophisticated pieces of equipment on a farm. Yet people are still quite uninformed about how tyre pressure has an effect on the bottom line of the business. You know how it goes: that ripper should have been running yesterday. When you…
Mr. Pietie Conradie, well known for his farm solutions in the town of Richmond in South Africa, designed an oil purifying ‘rocket’ – practical, cheap, simple and easy to assemble. The goal of Pietie’s oil purifying system was to keep the oil in his tractors’ hydraulic system clean. The oil…
