MAIZE MAKER: Wade Theodore, Jaryd Leblanc, Wayne Bowden and Hayden Bowden of Bowden's Agricultural Contracting with the strip till planter.
An innovative hybrid machine designed by Bowden's Agricultural Contracting, Yarram, could conserve the equivalent of 50 millimetres of water, making maize in dryland, medium-rainfall areas viable or reducing irrigation use without long fallow periods.
Maize crops can be sown just two weeks after silage and spraying.