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    active soil CULTIVATION

    Sep 11, 2019 4 minutes
    Images by Justin Bennett

    To put the machinery through some testing conditions, we headed north to Dargaville where Jono Leigh from Norwood invited us to test the Kubota M7-171 tractor, hooked up to the Breviglieri (Brevi) Mekfold 300 five-metre power harrow.

    Dargaville is renowned as a kumara growing area, so rotary hoes are a common sight, crawling through paddocks to achieve the fine, lump-free soil bed ideal for growing and harvesting.

    Crop rotation for kumara is often either being left fallow between planting or being sown in pasture for 12 months to help build up organic matter before going back into kumara. While I

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