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The system can prevent tired operators from missing an unexpected hazard during a long day of harvesting.
Equipment, Machinery

Cognitive Agro Pilot provides autonomous combine navigation

AI-based system eliminates the need for GPS

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Recently, major machinery brands have introduced artificial intelligence (AI) features into their combines’ threshing systems allowing them to automatically self-adjust, which minimizes losses and improves grain quality without operator input. At a glance: Cognitive Agro Pilot’s system not only allows a combine to steer itself but also to understand and react to its surroundings. Instead […] Read more
(LakelandCollege.ca)
General, Machinery

Alberta’s Lakeland to offer ag tech degree

College to launch first-in-Canada program in September

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East-central Alberta’s Lakeland College is set to offer what’s billed as Canada’s first degree program in agriculture technology, as a two-year post-credential program, starting in September. The program, announced Wednesday, will consist of full-time studies at Lakeland’s campus at Vermilion, about 180 km east of Edmonton, plus “experiential learning practicums” off campus, en route to […] Read more
AGCO’s “Virtual Product Showroom” allows for enhanced looks at machinery as well as tours of its Jackson, Minn., assembly plant and visitor centre.
Equipment, Machinery, News

No farm show, no problem

Brands go digital to keep in touch with farmers

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There have been many changes to our lives lately because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The cancellation of farm shows all across North America is just one of them. The trouble for farm machinery brands is those shows have long been an important part of their marketing efforts as places where potential buyers get up close […] Read more
Can your cash flow handle new farm machinery payments?
Equipment, Features, Machinery

Can your cash flow handle new farm machinery payments?

Hidden profit robbers, Part 2: Real numbers on new and used machinery

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In this series of articles, I am identifying some profit robbers I have noticed in my 16 years of farm business consulting in Alberta. In Part 1 of this series, I identified depreciation on farm machinery as a significant profit robber. Since depreciation doesn’t affect your bank balance, it is easily overlooked. High loan payments […] Read more
Since machinery is a depreciating asset, the author recommends minimizing that investment and maximizing investment in appreciating assets.
Equipment, Features, Machinery

Depreciation and farm machinery, a rule of thumb

Hidden profit robbers, Part 1

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In my farm financial talks, I usually ask, “What’s the biggest cost in owning any piece of machinery?” In this case, I’ve already given you the answer but surprisingly some people don’t seem to be aware of that. In my 16 years of consulting farmers, I’ve noticed the old expression “guys (and gals) love their […] Read more
CupWheels are now available for tractors, skid steers and combines.
Equipment, Machinery

CupWheel moves toward fuller market availability

Inverted sidewall tire advances from prototype to market

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In 2013, while walking the aisles of the Agritechnica machinery show in Germany, I happened upon a unique-looking tractor tire called the PneuTrac from the company Galileo Wheel out of Israel. Its design turned conventional tire technology on its head. An inverted sidewall, the ability to run with little or no air pressure and a […] Read more
A CNH manufacturing plant at Sorocaba, west of Sao Paulo in southeastern Brazil. (Photo courtesy CNH Industrial)
Crops, Machinery, Reuters

CNH to work with Microsoft, Accenture on ‘smart’ vehicles

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Milan | Reuters — CNH Industrial has set up a five-year collaboration with Microsoft and Accenture to help it to develop “smart” and connected industrial vehicles, the Italian-American vehicle and equipment maker said on Monday. The programme, part of CNH Industrial’s digital transformation plans, is expected to help the group “achieve significant revenue growth,” the […] Read more
(Deere.ca)
Crops, Machinery

Deere buys up ag software maker Harvest Profit

Software's integrations with non-Deere systems to continue

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A North Dakota company whose software is used to help farmers gauge a crop’s profitability on a field-by-field basis will now run with the Deere. John Deere on Nov. 12 announced it has acquired Fargo-based Harvest Profit for an undisclosed sum. Harvest Profit — whose software was already integrated with the John Deere Operations Center […] Read more
(Photo: Reuters/Chris Wattie)
General, Machinery, Markets

Telus’ farm and food sector acquisitions take new shape

Canadian telco giant launches new Telus Agriculture unit

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Canadian telco and info tech giant Telus has consolidated its recent — and ongoing — acquisitions in farm tech, ag data management and supply chain management into a single new business unit. The Vancouver company, one of Canada’s “big five” telecommunications firms, on Thursday formally launched Telus Agriculture, billed as “a new business unit dedicated […] Read more
File photo of Rocky Mountain’s dealership at High River, Alta. (Country Guide photo by Scott Garvey)
Crops, Machinery

Equipment dealer chain Rocky Mountain to go private

Publicly traded CNH dealer's top brass make offer

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Canada’s biggest farm equipment dealership chain has made a deal to take itself private after almost 13 years on the TSX. Rocky Mountain Dealerships (RME) announced Monday it has an agreement in place with a numbered Alberta company controlled by CEO Garrett Ganden and board chairman Matthew Campbell, for 100 per cent of RME at […] Read more

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