Australian farm machinery sales rise.Australian farm machinery sales rise--Australian farmers spent more than $1.4 billion on new tractors, combine harvesters combine harvester Farm machine used, mainly in developed countries, to harvest wheat and often other cereals. The mechanical ancestor of today's large combines was Cyrus H. McCormick's reaper, introduced in 1831. , balers, air seeders, cultivator cultivator, agricultural implement for stirring and pulverizing the soil, either before planting or to remove weeds and to aerate and loosen the soil after the crop has begun to grow. The cultivator usually stirs the soil to a greater depth than does the harrow. bars and disc plows than they spent in the last fiscal year, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Tractor & Machinery Association of Australia. The areas' increased sales breakdown includes: $900 million for new tractors, up 25 percent; $86 million for cultivator bars, up 60 percent; $70 million for air seeders, up 40 percent; $70 million for balers, up 60 percent; $20 million for disc plows, up 21 percent. The sales of combine harvesters dropped 30 percent to about $260 million. Sales of windrowers and self-propelled sprayers are expected to exceed $40 million when market reports are complete. The increased total does not include the range of hay and silage silage (sī`lĭj) or ensilage (ĕn`səlĭj), succulent, moist feed made by storing a green crop in a silo. The crop most used for silage is corn; others are sorghum, sunflowers, legumes, and grass. machinery or pulled sprayers. |
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