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Case IH introduces the “all-purpose” AFS Connect Optum tractor series, offering two models with 270 and 300 horsepower.
Equipment, Machinery

Case IH introduces the AF Optum tractors

Two new models join Case IH’s AFS Connect tractor series

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Last August, Case IH announced it was adding another tractor series to its AFS Connect models, which already include the AFS Connect Steiger and Magnums. To this group of machines with enhanced integrated technology features now comes the AFS Connect Optum tractors. Unlike the Steigers and Magnums, which are basically designed for hard pulling in […] Read more
Fendt’s new 300 series 100- to 132-horsepower utility class tractors are now available in North America.
Equipment, Machinery

Fendt 300 Vario Gen4 tractors arrive

The promised new 300 series tractors now available for order

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Last July, during a global press conference streamed live online from Fendt Headquarters in Marktoberdorf, Germany, AGCO’s premiere brand promised North American farmers they would soon see the Fendt 300 series tractors arrive on these shores. In August, the brand followed through on that promise and announced the utility class 300 series models are now […] Read more
Deere adds two new models to its 6R line of tractors, the 
6R 145 and 6R 165.
Equipment, Machinery

Deere updates its 6R tractor line

The 6R range gets more features and two new models

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Last November, John Deere announced it had refreshed its 6R line of tractors and added two more models, the 6R 140 and 6R 165, to the series. That brings the total number of models in the 6R family to eight. Together, all the 6R tractors now span the 110- to 250-engine-horsepower range (86 to 203 […] Read more
Agrifac sprayers will be available with Exxact Robotics’ 3S green-on-green spot-spray technology for the 2022 model year.
Equipment, Machinery

Agrifac to offer green-on-green technology in 2022

Exxact Robotics’ 3S system will debut on Agrifac sprayers

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Advanced spot-spraying technology has become the hottest topic in application equipment recently, with numerous announcements from brands offering green-on-brown systems or talking about future green-on-green capability. Green-on-green refers to the ability of a sophisticated artificial intelligence-based software system to identify unwanted weeds in green, growing crops and spot spray them. Green-on-brown identifies weeds in fallow […] Read more
Amazone UX 7801 and UX 8601 pull-type sprayers are available with tank capacities of 8,000 and 9,000 litres and boom widths of up to 138 feet.
Equipment, Machinery

Two new PT sprayers from Amazone

New UX series models offer 8,000- and 9,000-litre tank capacities

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Although pull-type sprayers have largely fallen out of favour in the North American market in recent decades, they remain popular in Europe. Germany-based Amazone is one of several manufacturers that produce a full line of pull-type and self-propelled models. The brand currently offers PT sprayers here in Canada. Last August, Amazone announced the addition of […] Read more
Elmer’s Manufacturing has introduced a new 2,300-bushel-capacity grain cart.
Equipment, Machinery

Bigger grain cart from Elmer’s Manufacturing

The 2,300-bushel model can fill a super-B semi-trailer truck with one load

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Taking advantage of the continually growing capacities of harvesting equipment is one way many producers have improved efficiency with minimum manpower. Included in that trend of ever-increasing machine size is grain carts. And last October, Elmer’s Manufacturing announced it had added a new model to the upper end of its grain cart model range, the […] Read more
In 2015, Amazone had developed technology capable of identifying weeds in fallow fields and selectively spraying them. Now the company is field testing a sprayer that can identify weeds in a growing crop.
Equipment, Machinery

Green-on-green spray technology on the horizon

Amazone field tests sprayer with in-crop selective spraying capabilities

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In 2021, both John Deere and AGCO announced they were developing selective spraying technologies. Deere introduced its See and Spray Select as an option on model year 2022 400 and 600 series sprayers. That system is capable of identifying weeds in fallow fields and selectively spraying them. It’s what the industry now calls “green-on-brown” technology […] Read more
Blair Ford says he was impressed with how easy the Climate FieldView software is to use. Once he upgrades the air seeding system to a unit with variable-rate capability, he will be looking forward to creating variable-rate prescriptions for fertilizer application and seeding rates.
Equipment, News

Software provides a new view of all fields

Bayer technology makes digital farming easy to use and useful

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Blair Ford and Colette Thurston have been seeing their east-central Alberta farm from a whole new perspective over the past year and a half. Using an online program, they’ve got all 2,300 acres mapped, and throughout the growing season regularly receive satellite imagery showing variations in crop colour (a vegetative index) that can alert them […] Read more
New Holland introduced updated versions of its windrower, the Speedrower Plus series, for model year 2022.
Equipment, Machinery

New Holland introduces the Speedrower Plus

The brand gives its Speedrower line a “ground-up” redesign

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The model year 2022 Speedrower Plus from New Holland made its debut at the U.S. Farm Progress Show last August. The brand calls this latest version of its Speedrower line a next-generation model that has been “redesigned from the ground up.” NH believes the new Speedrower Plus models can provide more productivity and precision in […] Read more
John Deere has added a new model, the 9500, to its self-pro- pelled forage harvester line. The 9500 model and the larger 9600 will both get Deere’s new 18.0-litre engine for power.
Equipment, Machinery

Deere updates its self-propelled forage harvester line

New features and a bigger engine mean improved performance

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Three years ago, John Deere introduced its 9000 series, self-propelled, forage harvester line. For model year 2022, the brand is adding a new model to that series, the 9500. And the new harvester won’t be short on power. A new inline 18.0-litre John Deere 18X diesel will be the standard power plant for the new […] Read more

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