Machinery - General
High demand, low supply send planter and combine prices to the moon.
Deere & Co reported a 17% rise in quarterly profit on Friday, boosted by higher sales for its tractors, combines and sprayers.
Busch Light and John Deere are teaming up for a special “For the Farmers” beer can. The beer will be sold across the Midwest May 16-July 3, and $1 from each sale will be be donated to Farm Rescue.
CEO of ClearFlame says its modified diesel engines in trucks and farm machinery offer the same power and performance of traditional diesel engines but with lower fuel costs and fewer emissions. Look for them this summer.
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Could LED light be used to kill weed seed inside a combine during harvest? The technology has already arrived, according to an inventor raised in the corn and soybean rows of Ohio farmland.
Tom Corcoran, the sumbi#@% farmer, has paid the price of admission and turned formulaic agriculture on its head.
Fathers of invention: The Taggart operation built eight 4WD tractors from the 1950s-1970s, testament to the mechanical genius of an Arkansas farming family.
Andy Pasztor is an Ontario, Canada farmer first who’s also found fame on social media for his ability to make any tractor shine. Thanks to farmers on social media, that passion turned into a business for “Andy Clean.”
The National Mall in Washington, D.C. will look different this week. AEM is hosting a Celebration of Modern Agriculture event to showcase the nation’s finest agricultural machinery.
There are 47+ items for sale, including items of high-interest and unique equipment!
The Right to Repair movement in agriculture is a popular cause with farmers, for various good and questionable reasons. As multiple states create Right to Repair rules, it looks like we may be watching the wrong battle.
John Deere has captured the spotlight with pictures and descriptions of an autonomous tractor. Just like six years ago, Case debuted a concept model of an autonomous tractor, leaving farmers intrigued.
The strategy is propelling the business to reach the sweet spot when sustainability, productivity, and profitability overlap for its business and the business of its customers.
Is a revolutionary new material, reportedly stronger than steel and light as plastic, knocking at the agriculture equipment industry’s doorstep?
Parag Garg, Chief Digital Officer, “Our vision for the future is to make precision technology, so smart and so easily that the customers can focus on what really matters to them.”
In 2016, Dale Roberts began designing a DIY mower-sprayer in his farm shop, and six years later, he has a patent and a significant equipment innovation.
Whereas farmers used to look for tractors with less than 500 hours, now with demand so high and supply constrained, the threshold is less than 5,000 hours.
A homemade trailer offers customization and cost savings.
A fellow mechanic and I used to say, “Fire is our friend” when we were stymied making repairs.
What compelled a farmer to drive 1,800 miles in dead winter atop an open-cab tractor and rage against the political machine? Family, country, and a desperate love of agriculture.
Autonomy is poised to introduce new levels of productivity on the farm — and fun.
After ransomware attacks hit two co-ops and an equipment auction site last year, John Phipps says his guess is tractors being hacked to override factory engine or emission controls are ripe for self-inflicted hacks.
Some accuse me of having a “negative personality,” and say I focus too much on my mistakes.
Smashing a weed seed to death as it passes through a combine is a technological reality fast approaching U.S. farmland.
All items sell absolute with no buyer fees.
The Horsch Robo is equipped with a Trimble navigation system and fitted with a large seed hopper.
No matter how many sketches I draw with welder’s chalk on bench tops, no matter how many tack-welded prototypes I build, my “improvements” and “inventions” never seem to work as I envision.
The NEXAT is an autonomous all-in-one machine that can be used for tillage, planting, spraying and harvesting.