On Thursday, May 10 they were welcomed at Tzaneen Swaarvoertuie during a Launch function of the new McCormick X-Tractor series! The first stage of the expedition was undertaken across Australia last year.

According to a statement by McCormick, the XTractor expedition is a “docu-reality programme”, in which the tractors and their drivers are “participants in a journey to discover our planet”.

The South African stage started in the Western Cape and the tractors traveled through the Cape Winelands, the Garden Route, the Karoo, the Drakensberg, Lesotho, Uysalong the KwaZulu-Natal coast, through Swaziland, the Mpumalanga Lowveld an Limpopo, and eventually finish in Pretoria.

During its 50-stage journey across South Africa, the XTractor expedition also stopped to take part in humanitarian activities, including establishing an orchard and vegetable garden for a community in Limpopo’s Ephraim Mogale Local Municipality, and building a new soccer pitch for a high school in Gauteng’s Sedibeng West district.

Another highlight of the trip will be a stop at South Africa’s largest agricultural expo, Nampo Harvest Day, to be held in Bothaville in the Free State this week.

The drivers of the X7 and X8 McCormick tractors are members of Italy’s State Corps for Forestry, Environmental and Agro-food Protection and the 1st Paratroopers Carabinieri Regiment. The expedition aims to showcase the durability, effectiveness and efficiency of McCormick’s tractors and BKT’s Agrimax IF and Agrimax RT tyres.

Source: Farmer’s Weekly