Career
He was president of IAMFE for 36 years. The main objective of the association is to inform agronomists and plant breeders about new machinery, equipment and instruments to increase the capacity and accuracy of their experimental work. Øyjord has worked with construction of machinery and equipment for mechanization of field experiments.
Øyjord invented the interchangeable distributor heads in 1965.
This made the Øyjord plot seeders to a world article with export to 57 countries.