Inlon is an import, distribution and service support of tractors and farm machinery.
It focuses on specialist tractors and machinery required for particular farming niches in vegetables and market gardens, vineyards, orchards and horticulture in general, plus hay and silage for beef and dairy.
When the farming conditions create the opportunities for growers, often their needs for machinery have to be met quickly so that they can take advantage of those conditions.
Inlon’s business model relies on providing that machinery quickly from stock in Australia.
With factory lead times of many months, and two months of sea freight, it is critical to manage a pipeline of machinery stock to meet these needs.
Whether it is Landini specialist vineyard and orchard tractors, high-clearance row crop vegetable tractors, Strautmann forage wagons, SIP hay tools, Kronos cotton mulchers, or Falc rotary hoes for sugarcane, we manage a multitude of different seasonal peak demands each year, which ebb and flow depending on the particular conditions in that farming segment at the time.
How do you see agriculture as an industry developing in the next 10 to 20 years?
So long as Australia manages and protects its productive farming land, and manages its water resources with equity for all growers and users, then farming and food production has a great future in Australia.
Safe quality food for the world is the next global revolution.
Computers, internet and communications may have been the last great revolutions, but food and energy are the next.
Australia is on the doorstep of the fastest growing middle class in Asia, and demand for good food, which is nutritional and safe, will continue to grow for many decades.
Australian farming has a foundation in free markets, unprotected from tariffs and subsidies. It has prospered from its continual improvement in efficiencies and scale.
Machinery and systems, like that supplied by Inlon, offer farmers the technology and equipment to stay on this journey of improvement in efficiencies, whether scaling up in size for more production, or down scaling as small local organic growers.
The recent free trade agreements all have agricultural access as a key element and this will continue to give Australian farmers opportunities in the growing global middle class.
