Machinery
Are you having issues with worn out transition cones and only getting 500 hours out of them? Then you’ll want to watch a video from Pam Fretwell with Ross Joost on a new product that will save you money!
Staying diligent means staying safe—and protecting your hard work from fire
As the number of machinery auctions increases across the country, prices for used combines remain strong. The data table on page 44 highlights auction prices for November 2017, and while not every combine sold on the high side, there are a few strong prices that jump off the page.
While you might be glad to finally be done with harvest 2017, don’t neglect to make any necessary notes to improve combine performance next harvest. Farm equipment mechanic Dan Anderson says to watch for the following three issues.
Rise of ‘hobby farms’ means more untrained growers get maimed, killed
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Optimizing the performance of draper-style small grain platforms
Benefits of draper platforms might warrant an upgrade this year
Unless you abstain from social media, you’ve likely seen the viral photos of what one father did to make sure rain didn’t ruin his daughter’s big day.
Four new models of self-propelled forage harvesters provide 10% improvements in horsepower and kernel processing compared to the previous John Deere series.
This month, U.S. Farm Report is on the road with Machinery Pete to P&K Equipment in Kingfisher, Oklahoma.
U.S. Farm Report is on the road with Machinery Pete in western Wisconsin at Frontier Ag and Turf.
As you manage through the capital-intensive decisions for machinery, there are three major areas of consideration which include an accounting perspective, replacement scheduling and market value conditions.
Here’s the all-new Lexion 8000-7000 series combine.
U.S. farmers’ incomes are set to plunge to a 12-year low, but that’s not enough to stop some from investing in new tractors and combines.
An American farming titan, Jessie Small, the king of combines, has passed on, and with him goes a sizable chunk of U.S. historical lore.
There is a wide continuum of options when prepping a combine for winter storage. Here’s a pre-storage list of those various options, from “park it and forget it” to “ready for next year’s harvest.”
With the four-fold goal of improving efficiency, grain quality, uptime and safety, AGCO has announced three optional features on its Fendt Ideal Combine.
To celebrate the milestone each new combine leaving the factory will have a 75th anniversary decal applied.
This is the famous and first original Busch Light combine
Understand how combine components interact to do a better job.
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Insurance companies that offer coverage for “rock damage” to combines often require claims be submitted within six weeks of the end of harvest.
Item highlights include five cotton pickers, five tractors, and lots of other items of high interest!
My only conclusion is that machines can secretly talk to each other via some sort of long-distance mechanical telepathy.
Whether you call it slugged, plugged or wadded-up, a combine jammed with weeds or damp crop is enough to make a preacher cuss. Here are tips to minimize your frustration and downtime.
“Precision and autonomy are an opportunity for us, and Raven really helps put us in a very, very competitive position,” Wine says.