A look inside the highest horsepower tractor on the Australian market

John Deere’s new 9RX tractor promises faster seeding and better timing for broadacre farmers.

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00:00Well this is a new release from John Deere. This is one of their 9RX high horsepower tractors.

00:06They've spent a couple of years developing and yeah it's good to see them here in Australia.

00:10Only demoing a few at the moment but certainly taking expressions of interest and yeah really

00:16excited about them. The most profitable farmers in Australia are the ones that get their timeliness

00:22of operation right. So when I talk about timeliness of operation it's really getting

00:27things done at the right time and particularly as an example seeding a large broad acre farmer they

00:35might take four weeks to plant their crop. If they're getting into their fourth week and soil

00:40moisture's starting to get lower crop establishment can be affected. So with one of these tractors the

00:46real benefit is if we're pulling wider equipment at a faster rate we can close our planting window

00:53and really take advantage of that soil moisture. The serviceability of the tractor is really good you

00:58know all the service points are quite accessible there's been a lot of thought put into that area.