SERVICES: ROD FOX CONTRACTING
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Business Rural / Summer 2013
A Claas Jaguar 850 Green Eye silage harvester. Stuart Millar, from Rod Fox Contracting, says they are powerful, reliable and easy-to-operate machines. He says Jaguar is known for its benchmark features, and the 850 Green Eye comes with a wide range of front attachments, which provides ‘huge versatility’.
New machine gets on-job test Kelly Deeks Agricultural contracting company Rod Fox Contracting has been giving its new top-of-the-line silage harvester around Otago and Southland a solid work-out.. The company is immersed in a boom season of silage harvesting following an excellent spring that allowed Southland and Otago farmers to grow a lot of surplus pasture. Stuart Millar, from Rod Fox Contracting, says the Claas Jaguar 850 Green Eye – which was bought
through the Claas Harvest Centre – is powerful, reliable, and easy to operate. It has a wide range of front attachments, which provide “huge versatility” for use in harvesting or picking maize, whole-plant cutting, swath pick-up, grass-mowing, grain and willow harvesting. He says Jaguar is one of the world’s best selling forage harvesters, and is known for benchmark features, such as stepless cutting-height adjustment and a feed that has stone and overload protection. Rod Fox Contracting, established by dairy farmer Rod Fox, has been operating in Otago and Southland for more than 30 years.
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Five years ago, Fox’s son-in-law, Stuart Millar, joined the business. Millar is an agricultural engineer who previously worked for Claas Harvest Centre. The company now runs about nine staff, increasing to about 15 over summer. Staff have include class-five truck drivers, excavator operators, and two with a quarry manager’s ticket. The firm has operated a quarry for the last 10 years. Millar says the company’s agricultural work, including dairy conversions and the construction of lanes on dairy farms, has created enough demand for lane material for the company to lease a quarry at Berwick and obtain a resource consent to operate it. This move has seen Rod Fox Contracting become involved in civil projects as well, carting and supplying rocks for roading projects, including railway access roads and forestry roads. The company has recently been involved in many new effluent-pond builds and upgrades in the wake of new council regulations requiring effluent ponds to built 300mls higher than the level of the last recorded flood. Many dairy farmers are having to fill in ponds and build new ones on top.
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