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deere 8r tractor with agco outrun autonomous system
Crops, Equipment, Machinery

Can autonomous systems cut costs?

Agco claims its prototype Outrun system has shown ROI benefits

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Could having autonomous equipment working on your farm improve the operation’s overall profit picture? Agco claims it has demonstrated exactly that during initial field trials of its Outrun retrofit autonomy kit, which it introduced to the farm media near Salina, Kansas in late June. “What we’re providing is a kit that takes a tractor and […] Read more
A weed destruction system, to mount on the rear of combines, that uses a specific spectrum of light, is being developed through a partnership between Redekop and Global Neighbor Inc.
Crops, Equipment, Machinery

Redekop partnering on new system for weed seed destruction

Canadian manufacturer's work with U.S. company allows for light technology to destroy weed seeds

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One way to defeat the problem of weed resistance is to keep as many weed seeds out of a field as possible. Redekop’s Seed Control Unit (SCU), which pulverizes seeds coming out of the back of a combine, is one tool to help do that. But it can only be used on Class 8 and […] Read more
John Deere T6 800 Combine
Equipment, Machinery

Deere’s T6 800 combine expands on conventional wisdom

New, updated model due out for the 2025 season to replace John Deere's existing conventional T670

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It didn’t take long after New Holland introduced farmers to the rotary combine concept, with its first TR model in the 1970s, for that threshing system to dominate the market in North America. While it may feel like the conventional straw walker combine has since faded into obscurity, it certainly hasn’t. Many brands are offering […] Read more
FieldOps is a new digital platform available for mobile and web users that consolidates all field operations into one interface.
Equipment, Machinery

FieldOps: a new digital platform from CNH

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CNH is set to debut a new, free platform for mobile and web customers to better monitor field operations from a single site. “This is something we’re really excited about,” CNH’s chief digital and information officer Marc Kermish says. “We realize more and more farmers are on the go and need to manage their farm […] Read more
Satellite communications firm Intelsat, which last month agreed to a US$3.1 billion acquisition offer from Luxembourg-based SES, will provide field connectivity for CNH customers in Brazil.
Equipment, Machinery

Improved connectivity coming soon from CNH

Satellite link to debut next year for the New Holland and Case IH brands

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As real-time digital connectivity from the field to the cloud increases in importance for farmers with the move to widespread precision farming, regular cellular service providers haven’t really been fully up to the task of supporting it in every location. Most farmers have fields in at least some areas where cellular service is reduced or […] Read more
Agco has acquired 85 per cent ownership of Trimble’s agricultural products line. Trimble products sold under the new joint venture will now have the brand name PTx Trimble.
Equipment, Machinery

New PTx brand a blend of precision farming systems

Joint Agco-Trimble venture combines digital technologies for both retrofit and OEM applications

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As of early April there’s a new name on the precision farming landscape: PTx. It includes a joint Agco-Trimble venture that will take over Trimble’s existing agricultural products line as well as Agco’s JCA Technologies business under the newly-coined PTx Trimble brand. Agco has acquired an 85 per cent share in the j.v., while Trimble […] Read more
How should growers and agronomists interpret the gigabytes, even terabytes, of ag data available?
Equipment, Features

How to deal with the farm data deluge

The growers have all the data, but do they necessarily use it?

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Glacier FarmMedia — The launch of the first GPS yield monitors altered the world of on-farm data collection. That was followed by variable-rate technology, precision planting and aerial/satellite imaging. Most growers have now been accumulating data for 20 years or longer — and many have resolved to keep that data in the hopes of finding […] Read more
In orbit since 2017 with an expected design life of 15 years, the SES-15 (PRN 133) satellite will be offline in “test” mode this spring from mid-May into early June.
Crops, Equipment, Machinery

WAAS signal outage planned

Satellite 133 will not be available during some spring seeding weeks

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If the GPS system in use on your farm relies on a WAAS (Wide Area Augmentation System) signal, then be aware there will be an outage right in the middle of spring seeding this year. The United States’ Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which administers the civilian-use GPS network, plans to switch WAAS GEO 6 (S15 […] Read more
A May 2022 RADARSAT Constellation Mission satellite image of fields in Manitoba, including many affected by flooding. Adoption of satellite imagery in agriculture is seen to have lagged compared to other sectors.
Equipment, Features

Farm focus needed for eyes in the sky

An ag expert with NASA talks about why on-farm adoption of satellite imagery has lagged

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Satellite imagery has potential to revolutionize agricultural management, but that isn’t likely to happen unless on-farm adoption rates increase, the head of a NASA-led consortium said during a recent event in Winnipeg. NASA Harvest executive director Alyssa Whitcraft told attendees at this year’s Canadian Crops Convention that use of satellite imagery has exploded in some […] Read more
The new 5670 planters from Kinze are available for the 2024 model year.
Equipment, Machinery

Kinze cranks up convenience on new 5670 Series planters

New models -- and a new digital agreement with John Deere for data integration

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In January Iowa-based Kinze manufacturing announced the debut of its new model 5670 line of pivot-fold, split-row planters, which it says offers more convenience and easy serviceability. The planters are available in 12/23-row and 16/31-row configurations that will work on both 15- and 30-inch row spacings. The pivot fold gives them a narrow width for […] Read more

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