The Rata Blog

Everyone likes a good field day! Farmers, Manufacturers, Machinery Dealers and even those that don't have anything to do with farming can find something interesting to look at, or just generally have a good day out!

We too like a good field day, it's where we get to meet our customers, hear success stories and above all receive feedback on our quality equipment! And since Rata is built on customer feedback, and working to solve problems for farmers, your feedback is both much appreciated and highly utilised!

Rata have got a good number of field days marked down for attendance this year, with some others still being considered! All the main New Zealand Field days (In Waimumu, Fielding and Hamilton are on the list!...)

In the next two months we'll be at four field days throughout New Zealand & Australia. Find out where below! More details on these to come later on, once dates and bookings have been confirmed.

Do you rely heavily on irrigation to prevent your pasture turning brown through summer? Or have you noticed reduced pasture resilience to warm and dry spells?

Subsoil compaction may well be the culprit!

Read on to find out how you overcome this & take advantage of water sitting in your subsoils!

When you have kilometers of washed out fence wire & posts to clean along with a large amount of general trash from flooding it's a good idea to get an extra hand to help with the clean up job! Check out the footage below of the Rata Power Claw helping to get the job done faster, smarter & easier on one Rangitata island farm.