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McInnes Manufacturing Ltd. began in 1989 when Ross and Diane McInnes were dairy farming on their 150 cow farm in Northland, New Zealand. They were not satisfied with the performance of calf feeding equipment that was available at that time, and as Ross had had draughting experience, they designed a feeding system for their own use. The design criteria that they set were:
The benefits and results from using the calf feeders were so great that they decided to make them available to all farmers in New Zealand. The Milk Bar 5 was exhibited for the first time at the New Zealand National Fieldays in 1990, where it won a design award. The response from fellow farmers to the Milk Bar 5 was overwhelming as, like the McInnes's, many were not satisfied with the performance of the calf feeding equipment available at the time, and could see the benefits of the Milk Bar system. Encouraged by this response new ideas and products were developed and they began to market and sell the Milk Bar Products at Agricultural Fieldays and retail outlets throughout New Zealand. Milk Bar Products have now expanded to other parts of the world and have been manufactured in Australia since 1992, in Chile since 1994, and U.S.A. and Korea since 1996. Milk Bar Products are distributed to most other agricultural countries.
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