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Setting up at the Clipex stand at AgQuip 2019. See their new units on site, including the PGX series of manual crushes with a new headbail featuring replaceable rubber and new locking cells along with noise dampening side panelling. Gates open Tuesday to Thursday at 9am and, after 47 years, entry is still free! #Clipex #Gunnedah #Farm

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The majority of this Friday night's Channel 7 "Better Homes and Gardens" episode features Commonwealth Bank AgQuip 2017. See Fast Ed cooking, Johanna Griggs driving a $600k Komatsu on the Soil Conservation Service dam-building site and much, much more. 7pm Friday 8th Sept on Channel 7.

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AgQuip 2017 is over and now the follow-up on sales inquiry commences for many exhibitors. Following strong sales over the three field days, Tamworth-based Western Ranges Motorcycle sales manager, Rod Bruce (pictured), will commence delivery, inquiry follow-up and on-farm demonstrations of the full Honda range. Honda proudly supplied side-by-side 1000cc units for Fairfax Rural Events, organisers of the 45th Commonwealth Bank AgQuip.

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The yards are down, tents are empty, pallets are stacked and trucks on their way home after a big Commonwealth Bank AgQuip 2017. Set your dates for next year - 21, 22 & 23 August 2018!

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A drink and a steak - legend at Commonwealth Bank AgQuip. To celebrate the 45th AgQuip we have limited edition stubby holders at the HQ stand for $10. For a steak, there are nine cattle breed societies on site, including the Devon Beef Cattle stand where you can see the heaviest bull at last week's Brisbane Royal Show (the Ecca) - this is Vix Krypton (from Coonabarabran) - he weighs 1330kg - the size of a small car! Commonwealth Bank AgQuip runs until 5pm today and 9am to 4pm tomorrow (Thursday) at Gunnedah, NSW.

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Dam-building at the NSW Soil Conservation Service demonstration area at Commonwealth Bank AgQuip is proving popular, with a visit today from Channel 7's Better Homes and Gardens presenter, Johanna Griggs (left), and tomorrow from NSW Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Water, Niall Blair MLC. They are demonstrating the latest innovations in automated machine control to build a dam each day at the event, using a bulldozer and an excavator in tandem. Soil Conservation Service Senior Environmental Officer, Brett Hanly (pictured), says the machines follow a pre-programmed computer model, using GPS technology, to be very precise in moving dirt and directing water where it is needed. Dam building exhibitions run right across the day on Wednesday and Thursday at Commonwealth Bank AgQuip at Gunnedah. The event will be a major feature on the Better Homes and Gardens program in a few weeks time.

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Crowds line up at the gates, then pour into day one of Commonwealth Bank AgQuip, filling the roads, pavillions & tents, plus hiring the hundreds of golf carts on site! Its a big start under blue skies, with weather predictions for three fine days and temperatures up to 23 degrees at Gunnedah. Gates open at 9am each day and stay open until 5pm today and tomorrow, closing at 4pm on Thursday.

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Crowds line up at the gates, then pour into day one of Commonwealth Bank AgQuip, filling the roads, pavillions & tents, plus hiring the hundreds of golf carts on site! Its a big start under blue skies, with weather predictions for three fine days and temperatures up to 23 degrees at Gunnedah. Gates open at 9am each day and stay open until 5pm today and tomorrow, closing at 4pm on Thursday.

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Less than ten years since they burst onto the Australian fencing scene, Brisbane-based Clipex are expanding into South America from a new base in Uruguay. This follows expansion into Europe and Ireland over the last few years, plus new Australian offices in Tamworth, Roma, Wagga and other centres. Clipex founder, Ashley Olsson, says they needed to balance this with an expansion of the Australian product range, meaning they even needed to expand their site at Commonwealth Bank AgQuip this year to show off the new products including this new sheep loading race capable of reaching multi-deck sheep trucks. See it all Tuesday to Thursday this week, just west of Gunnedah, NSW.

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Channel 7's Sunrise will be broadcasting from Commonwealth Bank AgQuip tomorrow, with weather presenter Sam, who's no stranger to field days - here he is at Henty Machinery Field Days last year. They will also feature the autonomous tractor and the Croplands Weedit sprayer which has been set up by Dave Farmer (pictured). It will run over this cropland without a driver and is the first of its type available on the market in Australia. See it around 7.30 in the morning, plus Johanna Griggs from Channel 7's Better Homes and Gardens will also be recording stories for a future program, including having a run in the autonomous tractor - now that's a big garden!

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Trucks keep rolling in for a busy final day of preparations at Commonwealth Bank AgQuip with lots of media interest in the event as we get ready to open tomorrow until Thursday. Ella from the Northern Daily Leader interviews Tom Lyle from Gunnedah Rotary Club at the Bunnings sausage sizzle; Member for Tamworth, Kevin Anderson catches up with Fairfax Rural Events Group Manager, Kate Nugent, and Kate creates the news for Prime 7 - we have great media support for this huge event - the largest farm field day in Australia.

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Launched in the US, shipped to Brisbane and now on the highway from Qld to Commonwealth Bank AgQuip at Gunnedah for its ONLY showing in Australia - the CaseIH Magnum concept driverless tractor! It will be 'unveiled' Tuesday morning at a special function to celebrate 175 years of Case machinery and tractors, since the first threshing machines were built by Jerome Case in Racine, Wisconsin. Then back on a truck and back to the CaseIH Museum in the States. Your chance to see the future of tractors, freeing up staff and owners to do other jobs on the farm, this Tuesday to Thursday at Commonwealth Bank AgQuip, Blackjack Rd, Gunnedah, NSW - Australia's largest farm field days.

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Simply Sensational - from Santa steaks to Socks and Silos - its all here at Commonwealth Bank AgQuip 2017. Allan Cherry from AGVAC Pastoral, Gunnedah and Robin Hooper from Boolarong Santa Gertrudis Stud, Somerton, setting up the BBQ for the competition of the best steak sandwich on site! At the other end of the site its a busy day in the AAA Sock stand setting up a truckload of socks just arrived from Melbourne. Its also a silo supermarket with sixteen silo sellers on site (say that quickly!) See it all Tuesday to Thursday this week with free entry and gates open from 9am each day, up until the close of the 'bargains afternoon' on Thursday 24th at 4pm. All at Blackjack Rd, Gunnedah, NSW - Australia's largest farm field days.

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Simply Sensational - from Santa steaks to Socks and Silos - its all here at Commonwealth Bank AgQuip 2017. Allan Cherry from AGVAC Pastoral, Gunnedah and Robin Hooper from Boolarong Santa Gertrudis Stud, Somerton, setting up the BBQ for the competition of the best steak sandwich on site! At the other end of the site its a busy day in the AAA Sock stand setting up a truckload of socks just arrived from Melbourne. Its also a silo supermarket with sixteen silo sellers on site (say that quickly!) See it all Tuesday to Thursday this week with free entry and gates open from 9am each day, up until the close of the 'bargains afternoon' on Thursday 24th at 4pm. All at Blackjack Rd, Gunnedah, NSW - Australia's largest farm field days.

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Sunny Gunny Sunday at Commonwealth Bank AgQuip at Gunnedah. It's starting busy with semi loads of big machinery still rolling in the gate, sun shining on the silos (they must be full of sunflowers leaning into the sun) and tractors big and small under a blue sky. A bit of cloud predicted for Monday and then sunny, 21-23 degrees predicted for the whole event, Tuesday to Thursday 22-24 August. Australia's largest farm field day - Free entry!

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Final preparations going into the various stands at Commonwealth Bank AgQuip, including the Commonwealth Bank ATM's, the expanded Clipex site with yards, crushes and fencing material, Peel Valley Machinery green tractors (John Deere) and Case IH red tractors. See it all Tuesday to Thursday next week, 22-24 August at Blackjack Rd, Gunnedah, NSW. Free admission.

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Final preparations going into the various stands at Commonwealth Bank AgQuip, including the Commonwealth Bank ATM's, the expanded Clipex site with yards, crushes and fencing material, Peel Valley Machinery green tractors (John Deere) and Case IH red tractors. See it all Tuesday to Thursday next week, 22-24 August at Blackjack Rd, Gunnedah, NSW. Free admission.