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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
new holland w60C loader
Equipment, Machinery

New Holland loads up on wheel loaders

More models of light articulating loaders are designed to appeal to farmers

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New Holland has added three new models to its line of light articulated wheel loaders, bringing the total number of machines to five. “We originally had the W50 and W80,” New Holland Construction’s product marketing manager Daniel Kakareka says. “To meet customer demands we launched additional models and configurations to target a couple more audience […] Read more
farmers at deere manufacturing plant
Equipment, Machinery

Farmers get in on new Deere tractors’ design

A Saskatchewan farmer was part of a consultation group that led to the development of the 9RX

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Anyone who has spent time operating and repairing machinery has probably at least once asked themselves: “Did some engineer really think this design was a good idea? If only they’d asked farmers …” The reality is, in today’s highly competitive environment, brands now make a special effort to do exactly that. Farmer panels are usually […] Read more
Bushel Plus conducts specialized training seminars or speaking engagements to help train farmers in how to optimize combine performance.
Crops, Equipment, Machinery

Learn to get the best performance from a combine

Bushel Plus Harvest Academy will run training programs for growers starting this year

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When the weather is good during harvest, every grower wants the combine to get right to work. There is pressure to just keep it moving to cover as many acres as possible while the weather holds and accept whatever threshing performance it offers. But not taking time to pay close attention to combine settings can […] 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
used tractors in a row at auction site
Equipment, Machinery

How to evaluate a diesel engine

Knowing what to check will give you a good indication of an engine's overall condition

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Are you thinking of buying a used tractor or other farm machine at one of this season’s spring auctions? When buying at auction, there is usually limited opportunity to give a machine or vehicle a thorough inspection. So here are a few useful things you can do at a sale to at least check the […] Read more
Case IH introduces three new combine models with upgraded features that will replace the current 7250, 8250 and 9250 models.
Equipment, Machinery

Case IH rolls out new Axial-Flow 260 Series combines

Three more new models debut for the 2025 growing season

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In February, Case IH pulled the wraps off its Class 10-plus AF11 twin-rotor combine at the National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville, Kentucky, describing 2024 as the year of the combine. By mid-April the red brand had three more new models to debut, the 260 Series. “You can kind of see we’re calling it the […] 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
JCB's side-entry cab and extendable-reach single boom make it skid steer models unique.
Equipment, Machinery

Hydrostatic-powershift transmission among latest from JCB

JCB shows three different on-farm handling machines with model updates

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In recent years there have been a few machines introduced to the market that aim to take jobs away from the typical loader tractor. And England-based JCB has been providing farmers with some of them. This year the brand showed three different machines at the Commodity Classic farm show in Houston in February carrying the […] 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

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