» 2010 National Fielday’s
22 June 2010
The 2010 National Fielday’s at Mystery Creek was once again a great success for Power Farming, giving the company the opportunity to showcase an outstanding range of new machinery and tractors.
» POWER FARMING GROUP SIGNS DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT WITH SAME DEUTZ-FAHR
11 June 2010
The Power Farming Group announced today that it has signed an agreement with
SAME Deutz-Fahr to become the exclusive distributor of their tractors and related
agricultural machinery products for both Australia and New Zealand. This is effective from 1 July 2010.
» Schuitemaker SR
18 May 2010
We are pleased to announce Power Farming New Zealand and KV Agriculture Australia have been appointed sole distributors for Schuitemaker SR.
» 100 Years of Vicon
30 April 2010
2010 marks a significant milestone for the Vicon brand – it is 100 years since
Dutch founder Hermanus Vissers started his agricultural contracting business.
» Safety Bulletin - ATTENTION ALL TELEHANDLER OWNERS
23 March 2010
Death prompts telehandler warning
» Power Farming appointed SIMBA distributors for New Zealand & Australia
15 March 2010
I am pleased to announce we have been appointed SIMBA importer for New Zealand and Australia.
» Power Farming gets green light on McHale distribution in NZ
1 December 2009
The Australasian farm machinery industry is in for a major shake up as Morrinsville-based Power Farming Machinery takes on the distribution of the McHale range of balers and bale wrappers in New Zealand and Australia.
» JAYLOR® wins Ag Innovations 2009 Award
12 November 2009
JAY•LOR of Orton, Ontario was named winner at the prestigious Ag Innovations 2009 Awards, for their Alexander Knife (patent pending).
» POWER FARMING ROADSHOW BRINGING HEAVY ARTILLERY TO YOUR TOWN…
9 June 2009
Attention! If you need more firepower in the paddock, report to Power Farming.
Power Farming is using National Fieldays to introduce new models from four of the biggest names in tractors. They include some real heavy artillery from the legendary Versatile brand as well as new models from McCormick, Landini and Iseki.
And if you won’t have a chance to get to Mystery Creek, don’t fret – an eight-week, nation-wide roadshow featuring the new big guns is coming your way.
» "New generation” Versatile tractors come to New Zealand.
27 April 2009
We are pleased to announce the introduction of the “new generation” Versatile tractors to New Zealand.
These high output tractors will compliment our current offering from the McCormick camp which currently peaks at 230 HP and allow us to enter into the broader market with a product that has a long heritage of powerful, rugged and reliable operation over many hours in difficult conditions.
100 Years of Vicon
30 April 2010
Contributor:
Vicon (Vissers Construction Nieuw-Vennep), has evolved into an international manufacturer of farm equipment, with over two million Vicon machines sold throughout the world.
The first Vicon machine was a horse-drawn semi-automatic potato planter, it was the first in a series of horse-drawn equipment that led to the development of the mower bar, finger-wheel rake and pendulum-type fertiliser spreader for which the Vicon brand is know for World Wide.
During the 1950s the eldest son Herbert Vissers expanded the company. New markets including the North America were found, and in 1955 Vicon opened a larger new factory in Nieuw-Vennep to cater for increased demand.
Vicon was successful in the 1960's with a sugar beet harvester, which performed extremely well even in the wettest conditions. Vicon extended the product programme with the spading machine, an innovative alternative for ploughing. Later that decade, the Vicon rotary mower was introduced as an important extension to the hay and grass harvesting programme.
In the early 1980s, Thyssen Bornemisza, a large industrial group looked upon the agricultural industry as a growth market and acquired full ownership of Vicon. Vicon attained the Belgian sprayer specialist Allaeys, this set the foundation stone for the Vicon sprayer range. They also purchased two manufacturers of cultivators, field sprayers, round balers and pull type combines to serve the North American wheat belt areas.
Vicon’s Nieuw-Vennep factory became a development centre of farm electronics and in the early 1980s pioneered the ISOBUS standard, which is now adopted worldwide throughout the agricultural industry as the next generation of machine control systems.
Thyssen Bornemisza combined Vicon, Zweegers, Rivierre Casalis and Deutz-Fahr implement companies together to create one organisation, called Greenland. This newly re-organised company adopted the single and strongest brand name, Vicon.
In 1998 the Norwegian Kverneland Group acquires Greenland. In 2008, the Kverneland Group simplifies its brand strategy to concentrate on its two strongest brands – Vicon and Kverneland.
Kverneland Group (Kverneland ASA - OSE: KVE) is a leading international company developing, producing and distributing agricultural machinery and services. They offer an extensive package of systems and solutions to the professional farming community. The offering covers soil preparation, seeding, forage- and bale equipment, spreading and spraying. For more information on Kverneland Group visit www.kvernelandgroup.com
