Massey

• Massey Ferguson will display the MF 500R Series Sprayer during the 2023 Farm Progress Show and is currently accepting orders for 2024 through select dealers.
• View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230829756229/en/
  Massey Ferguson introduced the MF 500R Series Sprayer, a reliable, user-friendly solution that provides cost-effective spray applications and increased independence for North American farmers.
• The MF 500R Series Sprayer gives producers the flexibility to apply product at the peak window for their particular crop, maximizing yields and positively impacting their bottom line.”
  The Massey Ferguson 500R Series Sprayer is user-friendly and easy to operate.
• Like all Massey Ferguson machines, the MF 500R Series Sprayer offers a wide range of customizations, allowing farmers to design the sprayer that fits their operation and budget.

• View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230822570374/en/
  AGCO’s exhibit at the 2023 Farm Progress Show will include a special “Wrapped in History” Gleaner combine to celebrate the brand’s 100th anniversary.
• Also on display will be a new sprayer and balers from Massey Ferguson, an expanded Momentum planter line from Fendt, and award-winning precision ag technology from Precision Planting and GSI.
• Gleaner ’s 2023 model year marks 100 years of farmer-focused innovation and a simple harvest experience unlike any other in the industry.
• Fendt, Fuse, Geo-Bird, Gleaner, GSI, Hesston, IDEAL, Massey Ferguson, Momentum, Precision Planting, Rogator, and Vario are registered trademarks of AGCO.

• Jason Massey , who previously served as the company's Chief Financial Officer for six years, has returned as President.
• Massey is charged with building on Wilbow’s legacy of delivering high-quality, highly amenitized, residential communities in the Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston markets.
• “I look forward to working with our team to create a new generation of award-winning communities,” says Massey.
• “Jason represents the insight and instincts that result in more livable and appealing communities.”
  Both Wilbow Corporation and Wilbow Group were founded by William Bowness and are owned by the Bowness family.

• Yesterday’s announcement of NZ$128 million in new funding for universities has naturally been welcomed as a badly-needed reprieve.
• But we have to ask, is this a bailout for struggling institutions, or is it just a Band-Aid on a tertiary sector with deeper structural wounds?
• It’s clear the pandemic massively exacerbated the challenges caused by years of funding below inflation rates.

The ‘per student’ funding problem

• But that fairness also reveals the problem with our funding settings.
• We fund research in universities in this way, through baseline funding topped up by contestable grants, but not teaching.
• Yet it will pick up more new funding than any other university by virtue of having the most students.
• The downside of “fairness” is that the funding holes at Victoria and Otago universities will not be covered.

Value and equity

• First and foremost, the New Zealand public owns and operates tertiary education institutions because they deliver economic and social value: value for the student who learns and acquires a qualification; and value for those who don’t attend but will rely on those who do (such as doctors and nurses).
• There is a question of equity, too.
• Some New Zealanders might be able to pay for their children to study overseas, but equal access to education at home should be a fundamental principle.
• But the fact that each university has its own identity, developed over many years in collaboration with its local community, is also something to celebrate.

3 important questions

• The two-year time frame for the review of funding structures is probably realistic, given the complexity of current funding models.
• The interdependence of research and teaching income streams needs to be examined carefully.


Academic freedom is enshrined in the law as meaning universities operate as the “critic and conscience” of society. But their responsibility to community is a useful way of thinking about what that means, in my opinion. Either way, these seem like the necessary questions to ask if we want to get back to basics.