WHEN Lachlan Corridan made the move to a new role as a service technician in the broadacre business with Haeusler's John Deere dealership in Sea Lake, he first had to go on a harvest crash course – without any crashes.

He managed to pull that off, and now he finds himself a finalist in the 2023 John Deere Technician of the Year Awards in the agriculture and turf section, going up against technicians from NSW, S