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XtraBlatt Issue 01-2021

  • Text
  • Xtrablatt
  • Crop
  • Australia
  • Dairy
  • Grassland
  • Straw
  • Agricultural
  • Silage
  • Forage
  • Machinery
  • Krone

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INTERNATIONAL Because of an often-extreme shortage of moisture, no-till has become established in Australia – drilling seed without prior stubble cultivation. For hay production the cereal is cut by disc mower and swathed. Here a farmer works with a mower combination. where we are active with our business. If you move still further inland, the countryside becomes progressively drier and almost the only farms to be found are extensive grazing enterprises”, explains Lars Pasedag. The range of dairy farm sizes is very large in Australia too. On average, farms milk around 650 cows with an average annual production of some 6,200 l. The customers, above all the agricultural contractors that during the season can also find themselves working 1000 km from their home offices, are used to great distances and are organised to deal with this situation. They would have prepared themselves before season’s start. Replacement and wearing parts are bought beforehand and kept ready in accompanying support vehicles. “Our customers are extremely resourceful and know how to keep their machinery fleets running by their own efforts”, he says, adding “We also believe that digitalisation and telemetry will in the future bring us still nearer to our customers. They are very interested in these technical solutions 32

The Australian market for self-propelled forage harvesters is limited. Only some ten machines are sold annually. because potentially they can bring with them substantial time savings when an electrical machine part strikes and the customer service can switch onto the case long-distance.” MACHINERY AT THE LIMIT From a product manager’s point of view, the Australian farm machinery market is a demanding one. “Here, a lot is expected from machinery. Temperatures are extreme, the dustiness of conditions at times very bad, the soil sometimes stone hard. The weather can be too wet. More often, however, much too dry. We have degrees of wear on machinery that would never be experienced in less extreme middle European latitudes. Accordingly, Australia is a very interesting land for the developer of agricultural machinery. Machines that continue working here wouldn’t wear out nearly as fast in other “WE THINK THAT DIGITALISATION AND TELEMETRY WILL BRING US STILL NEARER TO OUR CUSTOMERS IN THE FUTURE.” LARS PASEDAG, KRONE PRODUCT MANAGER, KUBOTA AUSTRALIA parts of the world.” An example of this: Where a big baler is seen as being worked nearly to full capacity with 6000 to 7000 bales per year in a country like Germany, 15,000 to 20,000 bales is regarded as a normal year’s work in Australia and, in extreme examples, annual output per machine can edge up to around 40,000 bales. “The bales in this case are the HDP ones weighing from 700 to 850 kg”, adds Lars Pasedag. Australia is a big exporter of so-called “oaten hay” which sees oats cut with the grain at milky stage and swathed behind the disc mower. After the cereal is dry enough, it’s baled in BiG Packs and transported for further processing with the bales opened and the forage re-baled with an industrial packer before being loaded into oversea shipping containers. “Australian oat hay is especially popular in Japan, Taiwan, Korea and China as high-value feed for dairy cows. About 33