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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.
Case IH has been at work on new farm equipment and improvements to its existing machinery. Earlier in August, the company announced the latest two changes to its product lineup.
Hagie Manufacturing LLC has announced it is building a limited number of enhanced STS16 Self Propelled Sprayers. New for 2017, the 1,600-gallon sprayer will include a 375 HP 9.0-liter John Deere PowerTech PSS engine, along with several other improved features.
A 2016 Farm Journal Media equipment and machinery research study revealed that 78% of respondents don’t own or lease a self-propelled sprayer, and another 46% don’t own or lease a pull-behind sprayer. What’s holding them back?
Cotton isn’t king in Kansas, but it’s a fine prince for many Jayhawk growers, boosted by the arrival of new 2,4-D technology.
Farming in Nebraska is a challenge every year, especially when the weather doesn’t deal a favorable hand. However, last year rains came at the right time for soybeans, with some farmers seeing one of their best soybean crops ever.
Fall burndown applications coincide with the harvest season in a lot of areas. That means farmers, their employees and retailer spray applicators are driving up and down rural roads and highways, working hard and working fast to get every acre treated. While a lot of farmers and applicators are experts in the field that’s not always the case as they move to and from the field, according to Fred Whitford, Purdue University coordinator of pesticide programs.
It’s a mixed bag for dairy farmers in Wisconsin. 2016 was produced a bountiful harvest, setting these dairies up for a good year of feed.
Illegal use of dicamba was a devil in 2016 and begs the question: With EPA’s labeling approvals on new dicamba formulations, how might the off-target scenario play out in 2017?
When Mikey Taylor broke the century mark with dicamba-tolerant soybeans, yielding over 100 bu. per acre, he did so in straight-laced fashion, in direct contrast to the dicamba debacle of 2016.
A robotic pigweed killer may provide a 90% reduction in chemical use, maintenance of tractor speed at 6 mph, and the polar opposite of broadcast spraying.
As 2016 started to wind down, it appears there was a spending spree on sprayers.
What’s the biggest surprise in the used equipment market thus far this year?
New Holland Introduces Guardian SP310F and Miller Nitro 7310 Sprayer.
If it’s green, it goes. A new weed technology uses a combination of infrared, sensors and nozzles to detect plants and aim a blast of herbicide at a spot the size of a nickel. WEEDit is an automatic plant detection technology that allows chemical application solely to green matter, rather than spraying bare dirt, all while the sprayer rolls at 15 mph, light of day or dark of night.
Old man winter is moving into the country, bringing colder temperatures and snow with him and making farmers push harder than ever to finish up harvest operations and ready their equipment for storage. One more job to put on your already long to-do list is to winterize your sprayer. Being proactive now will help ensure you have a sprayer that’s in good working order next spring.
Old man winter is moving into the country, bringing colder temperatures and snow with him and making farmers push harder than ever to finish up harvest operations and ready their equipment for storage. One more job to put on your already long to-do list is to winterize your sprayer. Being proactive now will help ensure you have a sprayer that’s in good working order next spring. Here are some quick reminders to help you complete the job.
Kentucky farmer Aaron Reding will be the first to admit 2019 hasn’t been easy, but his ability to adapt to a recent diagnosis with technology, that’s allowing him to continue to farm.
Don’t waste expensive chemicals. Learn how to select the right sprayer nozzle for drift control, coverage, and efficacy, plus tips for checking nozzle wear.
Effective communication between chemical applicator and farmer is a key element in helping prevent costly and dangerous misapplications.
FAST Global Solutions, Inc. announces the divestiture of the Fast Ag Solutions product lines and associated facilities in Windom, MN and Gilman, IL to the existing management team led by Cody Fast.
A new wave of technology development is putting farmers in the driver’s seat. Examples include EarthSense, Rantizo, Rabbit Tractors, PumpTrakr, Zimmerman Manufacturing and GroGuru.
For model year 2022, John Deere is introducing new 400 series, 600 series and Hagie STS sprayers. “We have a complete offering for all sprayer customers,” Joel Basinger says.
Used equipment values have continued to increase the first quarter of 2021. That’s true across nearly all equipment categories, including self-propelled sprayers.
From boom priming and a nozzle control system to multiple camera functions, the six new sprayer products will be further field-tested this year.
The arrival of a precision, pellet-slinging, automated rover may provide almond growers with a cutting-edge NOW control weapon. Welcome to the age of robotic mummy removal.
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“The more tech we can develop to allow farmers to get productivity out of their land without having to spend so much money on fertilizer and inputs, the better off everybody is,” says John Deere’s Julian Sanchez.