When asked about what operational size justifies an investment in radio frequency identification (RFID) technology in a food and beverage business, industry expert John Meaney responds back: when isn’t it the right size to adopt an RFID solution? As the National Sales Manager for Inventory Control Systems (ICS), John...
The LOCTITE red bottles have become synonymous with agricultural equipment assembly and maintenance since Vernon Krieble’s invention of the liquid threadlockers in the early 1950s. According to Michael Rowe, BSC Product Manager for Adhesives & Sealants, using threadlockers to safeguard threaded assemblies helps provide peace of mind for farm equipment users as they work in the field. But...
Baker Farm is a third-generation farm producer in the Riverina region of New South Wales, offering services ranging from contract farming services, feedlot facilities, freight, and storage of grain, hay and machinery since 1989. Maintenance Manager Andrew Stiler recently found an efficient way to maintain the farm’s fleet of Kenworth trucks....
For nearly two decades, BSC and Collier & Miller’s have worked together to provide wholesale and retail supply to industries in the Griffith region. BSC National Account Manager - Agriculture Russell Randal and Collier & Miller’s Mark Stewart talk look back at how the business relationship grew over...
Australia’s award-winning extra virgin olive oil, Cobram Estate, is advertised as ‘the only oil you need,’ and while that message pertains to the delicate process of cooking, the less delicate process of harvesting the olives relies on other types of lubricants, as Bryden Coote, Branch...
Air compressors have been used on farms for decades, but as the air compressor manufacturing technologies and their energy efficiencies improve, more agricultural businesses are realising the full scope of benefits that can be derived from adopting air compressors across their operations, for crop production,...
As an Application Engineer with Henkel Australia, Rocco Mammoliti has held hundreds of LOCTITE maintenance and repair workshops for BSC customers over the years, but there was one such event that still brings a smile to his face every time he recalls it. “One of the...
Autumn rainfalls of above average in most of Victoria and New South Wales this year mean busy times ahead for Shaun Thorneycroft, whose business, Precise Header & Ag Repairs, helps more than 70 growers in north-west Victoria with their header services each year. With over 17...
As an agricultural service contractor, Daryl Phillips, the owner of Nendy Enterprises, spends the harvesting season conducting harvesting and windrowing projects near Albury and in the Riverina region of New South Wales, occasionally taking up projects as far as Geelong in Victoria. No matter where the...
Down in the Southern Riverina region of New South Wales, it is nearly ‘go time’ for harvesting most crops, which for the most part consist of cereals, legumes, oilseeds, hay and a growing cotton industry. The team at Marshall Ag Repairs, an agricultural machinery and parts...
