Gazeeka in Adelaide, South Australia | Agricultural cooperative

Gazeeka

Locality: Adelaide, South Australia

Phone: +61 8 8297 0000

Address: Unit 3, 2-4 Marker Avenue MARLESTON 5033 Adelaide, SA, Australia

Website: https://vomax.com.au

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20.01.2022 Come see the all new Gazeeka Colt Microwave Moisture Meter for small square in-line balers. This week at the World Ag Expo booth 6200 and National Farm Machinery booth 1100

20.01.2022 We did a trial at Brecon over 5 days and the results were amazing! The full video will have you thinking. Stay tuned. https://youtu.be/MBvNiX0rhh4

16.01.2022 Good looking! KUHN Australia

14.01.2022 Just a few essential hay making tools.

14.01.2022 Mark, Scott and Viv talk about the advantages of making higher moisture hay and the key tools used in the process. https://youtu.be/P_H3TyV7MBk

14.01.2022 Dave Staheli of Staheli West Inc. utilising the new small DewPoint 331 steamer and the new Gazeeka 180 microwave moisture system, to get everything baled before the weather hits. Awesome work Dave!

13.01.2022 Let's make great hay!

12.01.2022 Our friends at Dalkeyhill Contracting running the WeatherBox and 870 in unison, allowing informed decision-making on when to start and when to pull up.

12.01.2022 *** EOFY SALE *** Very limited numbers. Contact your local Gazeeka dealer today.

10.01.2022 More sleep, more bales. Maximise your time by minimising the guess work. Know before you go, with the Gazeeka WeatherBox. https://vomax.com.au/products/gazeeka-weatherbox/

09.01.2022 Welcome to the new WeatherBox User Portal! Over the next couple of days we are going to take you through a few of the new features. We are very excited about what this platform is going to offer, especially as we push into the future. Now live at https://gazeeka.com.au/weatherbox/login.php.

09.01.2022 Identify potentially hazardous bales without leaving the cab. It's the Gazeeka signature

08.01.2022 That time of the year Gazeeka

08.01.2022 The Model 180, small square microwave moisture system, working hard on this beast of a setup!

08.01.2022 We have been asked recently why don’t we measure the hay moisture at the pickup of the hay baler? The answer is all about sample presentation. The more consistent a sample is presented to an instrument the more accurate the result. (As an aside, correct sample presentation is why hay samples have to be partially dried and then ground up to allow NIR instruments to measure the properties of hay).... A compressed hay bale with a fixed path length through it will always provide a much more accurate moisture measurement than the loosely flowing and inconsistent bulk density of the hay being collected at the pickup. In the pre-compression chamber just before it trips to be loaded into the main bale chamber does present an opportunity for moisture measurement. However, once again the variability of the final bulk density there is less consistent than the made bale. Plus, if microwaves are being used to measure the moisture at this point, all the metal around the chamber causes microwave reflections that distort the spectrum. These distortions have to be electronically and or software rejected or they will cause a reduction in the accuracy. Such rejection systems are never as accurate as having a clean spectrum in the first instance. From the feedback we get from our many Gazeeka model 870 users we have concluded the following. Generally, the Gazeeka is not used to determine when to start baling (a trial baling). Most operators can assess the windrows and determine when the hay is ready to bale without first making a few bales. Needing to measure the moisture at the pickup is generally only required when there are two things happening. One is that the moisture in the windrows is very inconsistent, and secondly, a hay preservative is being used which requires the exact moisture level to change the dose rate of additive. Generally, a change in additive dose rate is only the case if one is using propionic acid as a hay preservative. All other preservatives generally have a fixed dose rate per tonne and vary the flow rate based on mass flow (tonnes per hour). The main use of the Gazeeka is to determine when to stop baling as the dew comes in, or when the hay becomes too dry, without having to stop and measure moisture by some other means. Measuring the moisture as the bale exits the chamber also allows bales that have a moisture level greater than a pre-determined moisture set point to be marked with the marking system and thus possibly handled differently to the rest of the hay bales made. This process would be extremely difficult and prone to errors if the moisture at the pickup was used to determine which bales and where the high moisture points were to be marked.

07.01.2022 Scott speaks about his experience with the Gazeeka 870. https://youtu.be/WDLuTmjMBec

07.01.2022 Gazeeka & Krone https://youtu.be/0aRgwAOnmBM

06.01.2022 https://vimeo.com/301078523 Angus talks us through the Gazeeka WeatherBox. A handy tool for tracking fire danger on days like today (SA SES Extreme Heat Warning).... Stay safe and cool everyone.

03.01.2022 'Tis the season!

03.01.2022 In the field with the small square moisture gauge, today. Getting very close now. Thanks, Grant.

02.01.2022 The first feature we are going to look at is the Delta T visual function. This is for our users that mount their WeatherBox on their sprayer and use the data for their spray logs. Here you can see that we have selected the last 10 days, from the graph zoom presets. The colour shading helps to easily depict when the Delta T is within or outside of the "safe zone", in the selected period. The moment picker (explained in a subsequent post) can then be used to see all recorded data from that particular point in time.

02.01.2022 Know when it's ready to go! The Gazeeka WeatherBox sends a notification to your phone, when conditions are right to bale.