Sales of new big rigs in Australia in the past 11 months are on track to surpass last financial year’s 333 units, which in turn more than doubled the annual sales recorded for each of the previous four years.

Last year’s sales spike saw self-propelled units rise to 20 per cent of national sprayer sales.

NSW followed the national market trend, with an impressive 68 of the $250,000-plus units sold in the State in the past financial year, up from 27 and 33 in the previous two years respectively.

Tractor and Machinery Association executive director, Vin Delahunty, of Melbourne, said the self-propelled market had initially been associated with the cotton industry, and later grew into the horticultural industry.

But the present growth spurt was largely being driven by the broadacre sector.

Read the full story in this week's The Land.