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Today’s agriculture headlines and expert perspectives serving farmers, ranchers, crop consultants, livestock nutritionists and the entire U.S. ag community.
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.
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 head adjustments help prevent cracked or chipped kernels in the grain tank, grain lying on the ground after a pass and whole stalks and trash moving into the machine.
No component on a combine functions independently; the header, feeder house, thresher, separator, cleaning fan and straw chopper all interact with effects that can reach all the way to planting.
corn headers and soybean auger and draper platforms for harvest
Over the past few years Geringhoff has worked with farmers who have taken to twin row corn production to develop a combine head specifically for the narrow row configuration.
Drago’s corn head features unique technologies that allows it to reduce shelling loss.
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.”
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
Versatile Tractors, Bush Hog 4430 Utility Vehicle, Gleaner R Series Combines
Case IH Magnum Tractors, John Deere Manure Spreaders, Bobcat compact tractors, New Holland Combines, Club Car Utility Vehicles
Everyone has had one of those days when weather, your machinery or just plain luck works against you.
Trimble has introduced yield monitoring and mapping capabilities, allowing combines to accurately monitor and map harvested crop yield and moisture.
The Guiness World Record-setting New Holland CR9090 is now available in North America.
The Massey Ferguson 9005 Series of combines expands with the MF9695 and MF9795 models.
Joel Armistead, a farmer from Adairville, Ky., gives a farmer testimonial about his Lexion combine, a Lexion 570R.
MachineryLink, Inc. is expanding its fleet of machines to include new John Deere 9770 STS and Case IH 7088 AFX combines.
For their second Smarter Harvester Tour, MachineryLink delivered another show-stopper.
Harvest Solutions, new combine rental company, features the AGCO equipment and the service of select CAT dealers.
Jared Gray of Bedford, Iowa is the winner of the contest and received a $1,000 Visa gift card.
Wider than previous models by 5', DragoTec’s new corn head extends its product line.
The Association of Equipment Manufacturers reports tractor sales were slightly up and combine sales were slightly down.
The four models in New Holland’s CR9000 Series combines range from a Class 6 machine to a Class 9 that claims to be North America’s largest combine.
Case IH welcomes two 20 Series machines and a trio of 88 Series harvesters to its growing family of Axial-Flow combines.
Patterned after the Class 8 680B combine, Challenger adds two models to its harvesting lineup.