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Whether you’re applying snail pellets, lime, other soil treatments or herbicide, it’s essential to calibrate your spreader or sprayer before you start.

Four Year 12 students who achieved outstanding results in agriculture during their final year of studies have been recognised with a new award for excellence.

If you run into a problem during harvest, you can count on Ramsey Bros to be there for you, with longer branch hours, plus on-call service and parts support when you need it.

“Ramsey (Bros) did a great job of putting it together – they look after us – and we also get good support from Nigel Hodge (McIntosh Distribution, national distributor for Morris),” Ashley said.

THE thought of applying crop sprays with water rates as low as 30 litres per hectare was not easy for Callington brothers Nathan and Brett Wegener to comprehend, however since making the move to air-assisted spraying they have not looked back.

Trimble RTX guidance users are being given a stark choice: Upgrade your system settings or lose the critical satellite signal on 30 September this year.

Fat Farmers has been working to improve the health and wellbeing of farmers across areas of rural South Australia since 2010. The initiative was founded by a group of farmers at Maitland, Yorke Peninsula when they realized that farm work alone was not providing enough exercise to stay healthy, especially as they were getting older. So they decided to start a weekly group-fitness session and participating in fun runs like the City to Bay and gradually the word spread with more groups formed in other areas across rural SA.

“Ramsey Bros is one of the very few agricultural machinery businesses that can offer this kind of opportunity to young South Australians,” Ramsey Bros Group Service Manager Scott Wendland says.

Cleve Apprentice Technician Riley Haines appreciates his Ramsey Bros Apprentice Exchange Program experience at Riverton. (PHOTO: Sam Degoumois)