Machinery
With the new 8 Series, John Deere deepening its focus on how its machinery is more about delivering agronomic solutions than just iron, and it has two new offerings as examples.
The company has also announced a new model naming system highlighting series, opener style and width.
When should a combine or planter be replaced? Technically, the answer is “never,” if the owner is willing to replace parts as they wear out, but there are considerations.
Changes in crop rotations and the popularity of cover crops have given way to a new generation of box drills.
Changes in cropping rotations and the growing popularity of cover crops have focused attention on a new generation of box drills.
Here are tips to avoid adding to that inventory of mangled drill bits.
Values on used planting equipment in good condition have been rising throughout 2021.
Available to order for spring 2023, both the 2150S Early Riser front-fold trailing planter and the Precision Disk 550 air drill offer added capacity to get more done in a day.
Planters have multiple chains and drive systems that benefit from regular inspection and maintenance. Here are four tips for this spring.
Modern planters with high-speed seed meters, hydraulic downforce systems and other high-tech options sometimes require a little TLC to get them ready for the field.
Folding planters often use a big, hydraulic mono-block outfitted with lots of solenoids to control hydraulic functions. Oil dripping or spurting from the vicinity of that block looks disastrous, and may be.
Starting in 1993, Precision Planting was led by founder Gregg Sauder. In 2012, the company went through a series of acquisitions (and one potential acquisition). With the launch of Radicle Agronomy, here’s a look back.
Here are a few tricks to make those repetitive planter procedures easier and faster this spring.
Mondays on AgDay mean Machinery Pete.
Search traffic for used skid steers at MachineryPete.com jumped 80% in fourth quarter 2017 versus the previous quarter and 62.6% compared with fourth quarter 2016.
The next time you change or clean engine air filters in ag machinery, take time to examine the inside of the air filter housing on the “clean” side of the filter.
When dealing with hay crops, it is especially important to take safety precautions, considering that hay crops are typically grown on rough, steep or other ground unsuitable for row crops.
When dealing with hay crops, it is especially important to take safety precautions, considering that hay crops are typically grown on rough, steep or other ground unsuitable for row crops.
It’s Monday, so Machinery Pete is on AgDay!
Equipment sales in the first half of 2018 are up sharply over last year, lead by a 20.5% increase in combine sales according to the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) flash report.
Thursday, Case IH introduced its limited edition 50 series axial-flow combine lineup to U.S. farmers with a special-edition 150 series.
Draper platforms for soybean harvest
corn headers and soybean auger and draper platforms for harvest
Vermeer Corporation approved Woodford Equipment as a new dealer in Emmetsburg, Iowa. The new Vermeer dealership will provide equipment services including parts, service and sales support for Vermeer biomass harvesting equipment.
Greg Briggs, a customer of Sloan Implement Company, has a new combine that marks a milestone for John Deere. Briggs’s 9870 is the 500,000th combine the company has made. “We’ve been making John Deere products at this factory for almost 100 years and self-propelled combines for more than 60 years,” says Dennis Muszalski, factory manager. “Reaching this milestone is a very proud day for all the employees at Harvester Works.”
Drago’s corn head features unique technologies that allows it to reduce shelling loss.
Claas Orbis 900 header, Demco 1350 grain cart, DynaFlex draper header, New Holland Workmaster Tractors
Apache self-propelled sprayers, New Holland H7150 Mower, Massey Ferguson 9005 Combines, Challenger MT700C Tractors
Everyone has had one of those days when weather, your machinery or just plain luck works against you.