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Going nuts about almonds

Publish date: 08/01/2018

Cummins power is behind an impressive irrigation system at a new almond orchard development in the NSW Riverina. The big money momentum fueling almond orchard expansion in Australia shows little sign of slowing. Australia is the second largest producer of almonds in the world, with 10 million plus irrigated almond trees in the Murray Darling Basin and a continuing dramatic increase in greenfield developments in Victoria, NSW and South Australia. Already Australian production exceeds 82,000 tonnes worth around $600 million a year, about 65 per cent of it exported.

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The little engine that could

Publish date: 07/20/2018

Fuel-sipping Cummins is a big performer at leading merino stud. Cummins’ smallest diesel engine, the QSF2.8, is delivering big cost efficiencies for Paraway Pastoral Co at its iconic Pooginook property in the NSW Riverina region. One of Australia’s leading merino studs, Pooginook produces more than 1200 merino rams annually. The property comprises 19,656 hectares (48,570 acres) of native and irrigated grazing land and is one of 23 pastoral enterprises operated by Paraway in Queensland, NSW and Victoria.

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Swinging from the treetops

Publish date: 07/20/2018

Cummins QSL9 engines are assisting in the successful yields at one of Australia’s largest olive groves. Treetops Plantation near Goolgowi in the fertile NSW Riverina region is one of the single largest table olive groves in Australia. In 2018, around three million kilograms have been harvested from the grove which has over 100,000 olive trees. Part of a boutique industry, Treetops Plantation is a ‘tree to table’ producer, claiming: “We grow and process our olives locally, naturally without chemicals and with full traceability.”

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A passion for persimmons

Publish date: 07/20/2018

Cummins gas engine is delivering irrigation cost efficiencies for NSW farmer. A Cummins natural gas engine is slashing irrigation costs at a NSW farm where 4000 persimmon trees are grown for both domestic and export fruit.Chris Stillard and wife Belinda farm 260 hectares (700 acres) at Barooga on the Murray River where they produce around 1000 tonnes of lucerne, pure clover and oaten hay a year along with persimmon fruit and winter cereal crops.

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Who said kiwi's can't fly

Publish date: 07/10/2018

Maarten Durent is a force to be reckoned with, as is the team he has built at New Zealand’s Southpac Trucks which won the prestigious Kenworth Dealer of the Year Award for the first time in 2017. Southpac sold over 230 Kenworths in 2017 and Durent is quick to reveal that, at the beginning of March, the company already had orders for more than 150 Kenworths for 2018. “In 2017 we actually sold more Kenworths in New Zealand than the combined number of trucks sold by all our North American competitors,” says the CEO of Southpac Trucks.

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