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Forage Harvesters are one those farm machines you could look at forever and still find things to appreciate. Their sheer size alone steers your glance towards them and often you hear diesel being turned into noise before you see them, but that’s before you begin to recognise the amount of technology the ag giants pump into them.

So, on a shoot for Mighty Machines TV in New Zealand, we tested one of the best on the market, the John Deere 8500, at a maize farm in New Zealand’s South Island (if you haven’t seen Mighty Machines yet, then here is your official invitation to take an afternoon off and binge-watch the whole series).

For the price of two Porsche sports cars, a