Air seeder hasn't missed a beat in 20 years

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Updated May 15 2019 - 1:57pm, first published May 14 2019 - 1:00pm
Peter Knowles with his home-made air seeder which has done 20 crop planting seasons since built in 2000. It works behind at Daybreak disc seeder of 8m width.
Peter Knowles with his home-made air seeder which has done 20 crop planting seasons since built in 2000. It works behind at Daybreak disc seeder of 8m width.

INNOVATION born through necessity by conservation farmers along the Eastern seaboard following no-till practices of Western Australian croppers from the early 1980s had many building their own machinery implements on-farm and sometimes ahead of manufacturers.

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Mark Griggs

Journalist 0- Central West NSW

Central West and Western editorial reporter living at Wellington and based out of The Land, Dubbo office.

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