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John Austin Ltd uses the latest technology and equipment to deliver a quality job.
John big on ‘latest technology’ spraying; fertiliser spreading; ploughing and cultivation; precision planting; maize for grain and silage; side dressing; drilling pasture, cereals and brassicas; harvesting grain and silage; round baling and wrapping (for silage); baling of hay. In addition the company offers specialist equipment for peat land development. John says that he seeks world-leading technology to improve the quality of the company’s services, both to improve efficiency and develop new or improved ways of doing things. He regularly travels overseas and maintains contact with researchers, farmers and agricultural machinery companies around the world. “We always aim to offer the best value and do the best job we can for our customers,” he says “The latest technology plays a big part in achieving this. For example, RTR GPS is used to drive the tractors to ensure strip tillage planting is even, and all planters are also GPS controlled.
Karen Phelps John Austin Ltd offers farmers a full agricultural contracting service. The company even employs an agronomist on staff to support farmers with their cropping. “It’s part of our drive to give quality and value to our customers,” says company owner John Austin. He started his business in 1980 after having grown up in a rural community. He began working on farms from a young age during his school holidays, then went contracting full-time at the age of 16 before taking over the business five years later. John Austin Ltd can provide a large range of agricultural contracting services, which, John says, are designed to maximise the productivity and profitability of clients’ farms. These services include: pasture and crop
All of the company’s combine and forage harvesters have yield-mapping technology, which can be provided to customers if required. One of the latest purchases is the John Deere HarvestLab, which allows the company to offer customers constituent sensing. “This helps our clients determine corn-silage nutrient quality to get the most out of their feed and ultimately increase production. “John Deere HarvestLab constituent sensing allows us to determine the content of several quality parameters simultaneously in various crops and organic material. Using corn silage as an example, we can measure the content of moisture/dry matter, protein, starch and NDF/ADF (fibre). HarvestLab uses near infrared technology to determine the constituent characteristics. John Austin says it also enables more precise application of silage inoculants at harvest time because rates can be adjusted according to crop sugar and dry
matter readings. The result is higher quality silage with greater feed value and less spoilage. Processes are another important part of the drive towards greater efficiency. John Austin says his firm was the first agricultural contractor in New Zealand to become ISO 9001:2008 accredited. “Since our inception our ongoing standard has always been to maximise the quality of our workmanship, processes and all we do for our customers. “Our quality is influenced by the quality of our equipment, our knowledge and our staff and together these components combine to deliver the value and quality our customers require. We really try to be as professional as we possibly can be in all aspects of the business.” . John Austin Ltd employs around 70 staff in the peak of the season. The company has two depots servicing the Waikato, Matamata-Piako, King Country and Ohakune areas.
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