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    Sep 11, 2019 4 minutes
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    We venture a long way from Matamata Ag’s home base to check out one of its high-end offerings, the Ktwo Evo 1400, on a mixed dairy and cropping farm near Ashburton.

    Bruce Turpin and his team farm a 400-hectare property, run with 200 hectares as a dairy farm and the remaining as a cropping block.

    Having dairy cows turn food to effluent is a valuable nutrient tool that’s utilised fully across the farming operation on this property. Not only is effluent from the dairy shed and yard captured but the addition of a free stall barn three years ago also means a significant amount of the farm’s total effluent is

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