Farms and Farm Machinery

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It’s hard to imagine that Australian agriculture would have been able to compete globally if we had stood still in the early 1980s with machinery that maxed out at 350hp (261kW) tractors, 40ft bars (12.2m) and 30ft (9.1m) header fronts. Over the past 40 years the size of the largest new machinery has effectively doubled, and in some cases tripled, in size.

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