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New mower conditioners from MacDon

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In August MacDon announced it was introducing a two-model line of pull-type mower conditioners called the R1 Series. The model on display at Manitoba Ag Days in Brandon this past January provided farmers with one of their first opportunities to get a close look at one. The R1s are available in 13- and 16-foot working[...]
Machinery

In the field with an AgEagle UAV

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Standing in a demonstration field at the Ag in Motion farm show near Saskatoon in July, Markus Weber, president of AgEagle Canada (AgEagle.ca), launched one of the company’s unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as the Grainews video team looked on. The battery powered, flying-wing model quietly took to the air and flew the preplanned route Weber[...]
Features, Machinery

MyNewHolland.com goes mobile

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In 2014 New Holland launched a website called MyNewHolland.com. It is open to anyone to use. Anyone visiting it can engage in ag-related discussions, enter contests or access some services. But for New Holland equipment owners, it can be personalized to help maintain and operate their machines. Owners of New Holland equipment can access other content[...]
Features, Machinery

New Holland expands PLM Connect

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At a media briefing at New Holland’s North American headquarters in Pennsylvania last July, marketing managers updated journalists on the brand’s then-pending expansion of its PLM Connect telematics offering. The official public introduction was made at the U.S. Farm Progress Show in August. At the company’s test facility, Jordan Milewski, brand marketing manger, gave members[...]
Machinery

New C Series loaders from New Holland

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If you need a machine that does most of what a skid steer can do but you don’t need to get into confined quarters, moving up to something like one of New Holland’s new C Series compact wheel loaders may be a better investment. NH’s redesigned 50 and 80 horsepower C Series wheel loaders can[...]
Machinery

How to build a robotic tractor

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This past year Manitoba farmer Matthew Reimer announced he had successfully built his own robotic tractor to pull a grain cart at harvest time. Fully autonomous farm equipment is something the big equipment brands haven’t yet offered customers. But, the reality is they could. Only one small thing is holding them back: the risk of[...]
Equip Blog

Resistance is futile

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A few years ago when the smartphone began to really gain market share and we found we could do much more with it than something as lame as actually talk to a person, I wrote a blog entry comparing it to Captain Kirk's Star Trek communicator. Just like Kirk's small communicator, the smartphone allows you[...]
Machinery

UTV sprayers for spot applications

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Today’s high-clearance farm sprayers come equipped with boom widths of 100 feet or more, which makes getting them into sharp corners or tight places pretty difficult. And with some precision ag data collection systems now able to pinpoint small problem weed areas in a field, spraying them with very wide booms may mean wasting product.[...]
Machinery

PHOTOS: Small-scale sprayers offer targeted weed killing

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Today’s high-clearance farm sprayers come equipped with boom widths of 100 feet or more, which makes getting them into sharp corners or tight places pretty difficult. And with some precision ag data collection systems now able to pinpoint small problem weed areas in a field, spraying them with very wide booms may mean wasting product.[...]
Equip Blog

Doing the robot math

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In my last post I talked about the scale of some of today's largest farm machines and what the future may—or may not—have in store for them. As technology advances, however, the question is becoming how much longer will we see very large scale equipment at work on broad-acre farms. The reason I say that[...]

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