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Australian farm machinery sales rise.


Australian farm machinery sales rise--Australian farmers spent more than $1.4 billion on new tractors, combine harvesters harvester, farm machine that mechanically harvests a crop. Small-grain harvesting has been mechanized to a certain extent since early times. In the modern period the first harvester to gain general acceptance was made by Cyrus McCormick in 1831 (see reaper). More recently the combine has been developed for small-grain harvesting., 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. See cultivation. bars and disc plows plow or plough, agricultural implement used to cut furrows in and turn up the soil, preparing it for planting. The plow is generally considered the most important tillage tool. Its beginnings in the Bronze Age were associated with the domestication of draft animals and the increasing demand for food resulting from the rise of cities. than they spent in the last fiscal year, according to 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 - Synchronous DSP specification language.

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Publication:Implement & Tractor
Date:Sep 1, 2004
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