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Scoop
27-07-2025
- Business
- Scoop
Carrfields To Take Over MANITOU Agricultural Equipment Retail Distribution For New Zealand Alongside Giltrap Agrizone
Carrfields will work alongside Giltrap Agrizone, who will continue to distribute and retail Manitou in the Upper North Island. AB Equipment will continue to distribute the Manitou product range for industrial and construction equipment in New Zealand. Carrfields has signed an agreement with Manitou to take over the distribution and retail rights for Manitou Agricultural Equipment covering the Lower North Island and the South Island, effective 1st August 2025. Carrfields will work alongside Giltrap Agrizone, who will continue to distribute and retail Manitou in the Upper North Island. AB Equipment will continue to distribute the Manitou product range for industrial and construction equipment in New Zealand. Carrfields Managing Director Craig Carr says, 'Manitou will complement our current machinery portfolio, which includes the well-established global brands of HORSCH, KRONE, MacDon, Novag, Grange, Coolamon, and Anderson. By adding another reputable brand in Manitou, Carrfields will be able to offer a solution in material handling for the agricultural sector. Established in 1958, Manitou have a long history in the materials handling space and has been manufacturing telescopic agricultural machines for over 45 years. The investment and knowledge that have been committed to engineering the Manitou Telehandler in Ancenis, France are very impressive and present an exciting opportunity to us all. Stuart Walker, Manitou Managing Director, said, 'We are thrilled to have Carrfields join our network as Agricultural material handling specialists. Their dedication to customer care and services aligns perfectly with our values. Their impressive previous market share and customer satisfaction history make Carrfields great partners as we look to grow our presence in New Zealand. Manitou has been serving farmers globally for decades and is fully aware of the constraints and business issues in the AG market, offering versatile handling equipment that accompanies professionals in all their agricultural activities.'
Scoop
27-07-2025
- Business
- Scoop
Carrfields To Take Over MANITOU Agricultural Equipment Retail Distribution For New Zealand Alongside Giltrap Agrizone
Carrfields has signed an agreement with Manitou to take over the distribution and retail rights for Manitou Agricultural Equipment covering the Lower North Island and the South Island, effective 1st August 2025. Carrfields will work alongside Giltrap Agrizone, who will continue to distribute and retail Manitou in the Upper North Island. AB Equipment will continue to distribute the Manitou product range for industrial and construction equipment in New Zealand. Carrfields Managing Director Craig Carr says, 'Manitou will complement our current machinery portfolio, which includes the well-established global brands of HORSCH, KRONE, MacDon, Novag, Grange, Coolamon, and Anderson. By adding another reputable brand in Manitou, Carrfields will be able to offer a solution in material handling for the agricultural sector. Established in 1958, Manitou have a long history in the materials handling space and has been manufacturing telescopic agricultural machines for over 45 years. The investment and knowledge that have been committed to engineering the Manitou Telehandler in Ancenis, France are very impressive and present an exciting opportunity to us all. Stuart Walker, Manitou Managing Director, said, 'We are thrilled to have Carrfields join our network as Agricultural material handling specialists. Their dedication to customer care and services aligns perfectly with our values. Their impressive previous market share and customer satisfaction history make Carrfields great partners as we look to grow our presence in New Zealand. Manitou has been serving farmers globally for decades and is fully aware of the constraints and business issues in the AG market, offering versatile handling equipment that accompanies professionals in all their agricultural activities.'
National Business Review
10-06-2025
- Business
- National Business Review
Featured Newcomers: Carr family
Category: Agribusiness $150 million See all profiles, rankings and feature articles on The NBR List 2025 home page. Ashburton-based, family-owned, global agribusiness Carrfields has a simple purpose: create value for farmers. The group – which consists of several businesses within the agricultural
Otago Daily Times
05-05-2025
- Business
- Otago Daily Times
Farm machinery sale one of the biggest
A southern landowning business, believed to be selling up to convert pasture and arable land into forestry, is auctioning off all its machinery this week in the largest agricultural sale the area has had in recent memory. Glen Islay Station is selling more than 120 items tomorrow through the agricultural services company Carrfields, including 12 tractors, 13 other farm machines and 21 motor vehicles. Carrfields livestock representative Matt McBain said the volume of equipment for sale was the biggest he had seen for several years, which was to be expected from about 8000ha of farming land. He said he would not comment on the sale any further as per the wishes of the station's owners, the Roy family, who own land around Eastern Southland and South Otago. Although Glen Islay Station is thought to have been sold for forestry conversion, the Roy family has declined comment. This follows several livestock sales on the property, with trees having already been planted in some areas. The conversion of farmland to forestry is a contentious issue among farmers, because as well as being lucrative, planting and then replanting trees can offset carbon emissions, earning carbon credits. Under the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) these credits can be converted into extra profit. In December, the government put a halt to entering the ETS and receiving carbon credits if converting actively farmed land into exotic forests. Only last week, Agriculture and Forestry Minister Todd McClay said in a statement that restrictions on full farm-to-forest conversions on LUC 1-6 farmland would be in place this year and reaffirmed they would take effect from December 4, 2024 — the date of the original announcement. "The government remained concerned about the effect that farm conversions were having on highly productive land — particularly sheep and beef farms in Northland, the East Coast and parts of Otago and Southland,' Mr McClay said. Vocal Southland farmers and beef and lamb lobbyists alike have said converters are exploiting that intent loophole and it was leading to a rush of farms converting to forestry before the government clamps down any further. A month ago, Federated Farmers meat and wool executive member Dean Rabbidge, of Wyndham, said the growing number of conversions was a "gold rush'' that would lead to fewer jobs in small rural communities. Beef and Lamb NZ climate change programme manager Madeline Hall said the market moves and finds loopholes faster than the government. Research commissioned by Beef and Lamb NZ showed from 2017-24, 261,733ha — bigger than Stewart Island — of sheep and beef land was converted into forestry.
