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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
Some ag tech startup companies continue to get funding, but it isn’t as much or as likely as during the pandemic years. Photo: Avalon_Studio/iStock/Getty Images
Machinery, News

Ag tech venture capital stays on sidelines

Entrepreneurs need patience, more plan to achieve profitability to unlock investment

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Agriculture venture capital investment was an outlier in 2023, as it increased slightly over 2022, according to the Canadian Venture Capital Association (CVCA). However, that news belied pessimism on the state of ag tech at the recent Agri Tech Venture Forum in Toronto. The forum heard that the availability of capital for agriculture technology entrepreneurs has dried up significantly compared to the heady days of investment growth during the pandemic years.

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