The best: The Gyral STR Air Seeder blends the best of the brands' earliest models with a host of improvements and new features.

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For close to 80 years family-owned Great Western Corporation continues to be one of Australia's leaders in providing a diverse range of services encompassing component manufacture, light to medium metal fabrication and assembly to customers Australia-wide and into New Zealand.

For close to 80 years family-owned Great Western Corporation continues to be one of Australia's leaders in providing a diverse range of services encompassing component manufacture, light to medium metal fabrication and assembly to customers Australia-wide and into New Zealand.

Strategically located at the crossroads of Queensland's regional road network in Toowoomba - 120km west of Brisbane in Queensland - Great Western Manufacturing is easily accessible by road, rail and air, including the nearby Wellcamp Airport.

Great Western Manufacturing sales and marketing manager Stewart Kings said the Great Western Corporation range encompasses the established Excel Agriculture and Gyral Implements brands.

"We bought these brands as a way to value add to the existing products and services the company had available," Mr Kings said.

"These products provide Great Western Corporation with the capability to offer our customers a complete kit to meet their row crop, broadacre, spreading, and fertilising requirements."

Mr Kings said Excel is a market leader in the supply and support of agricultural machinery to the row crop and broadacre farming industries, supplying customers with a range of no-till and zero till planters and seeders, as well as as cultivators and fertiliser rigs.

"The Excel seeder range includes single disc, tined machines that suit a range of soil conditions and crop types.

"Our machines are successfully working in a diverse selection of crops, including wheat, cotton, corn, peas, beans, canola, all cereals, sorghum and many other broadacre and row crops.

"The ability to direct drill crops into stubble and all soil types from Tasmania to North Queensland is one of the key advantages of using an Excel disc seeder.

"These machines are well-built with low maintenance service points to provide customers with a product that will last for close to 40 years."

He said the Gyral brand is universally recognised as having developed the modern day air seeder.

"We can tailor Gyral products to suit individual requirements, including the choice of variable rate drive or ground drive so customers can adapt their load fill in the air seeder.

"We can also isobus it to the existing system in their tractor to streamline the process allowing the air seeder to be driven without additional technology.

"While the Gyral Air Seeder is the pinnacle of the brands achievements, we also manufacture a complete range of Gyral-branded broadacre products to suit industry needs, including fertiliser and manure spreaders, a leucaena planter and more."

Flexibility: The Excel High Lift Single Disc 12m planter is suitable for a range of soil conditions and crop types.

Mr Kings said since both brands were incorporated into Great Western Corporation, they've added their personal touch to the product range.

"From steels to wheels and tyres to hubs, we're manufacturing products for both brands with common parts so they can be easily used in together.

"We also manufacture a large range of spare parts for both brands as a major part of our business is backup service and repairs."

He said Great Western Corporation is proudly Australian-owned and manufactures products designed to specifically suit Australian conditions.

"Where we start with a product design, and where we end up with are two different things. We listen to feedback from our customers and build from there.

"The Great Western Corporation is committed to the Australian farming community, which our range manufactured in the factory in Toowoomba has proven.

"We will continue to build on our extensive abilities and depth of experience, seeking to identify and focus on further opportunities to grow the group. We're focussed on providing customers with market driven value propositions that enhance their businesses."

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