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An Antarctic Massey Ferguson tractor for your farm

By Scott Garvey June 22, 2015

If the Massey Ferguson 5610 that made its way to the South Pole impressed you so much you want one for your own farm, AGCO’s newest marketing idea may be right up your alley. In late May, the brand sent out email notifications saying it is “proud to launch a Special Edition of the MF […] Read more

Machinery

AGCO updates its RG700 RoGator

The RG700 sprayer gets enhanced features, and becomes the RG700B

By Scott Garvey April 21, 2015

AGCO says it’s giving its RG700 self-propelled sprayer an update for model year 2015, with a simplified drive system to improve performance and make for easier operation. The RG700 is the junior model in AGCO’s RoGator line. With a 700-gallon-tank, it debuted last season as the newest and smallest member of the RoGator family. The plan […] Read more

Machinery

AGCO’s new pre-owned program

AGCO offers a warranty on selected used equipment from participating dealers

By Scott Garvey March 23, 2015

With a large volume of late-model, used equipment on the Canadian and U.S. market right now, some manufacturers have begun backing incentive programs to help dealers sell machines before they grow roots in dealership lots. AGCO has just announced it has taken its limited Certified Pre-owned Program to a national level, as well as expanding […] Read more

The VersaLoop offers easy maintenance and can move up to 6,000 bushels per hour.

Machinery

New grain storage products from GSI

A new high-capacity bin and belt conveyor are the latest from AGCO’s GSI brand

By Scott Garvey March 12, 2015

AGCO’s grain storage and handling brand GSI had a couple of new products to introduce at the U.S. Farm Progress Show in Iowa last August. It added a new 40-Series, four-inch corrugated high-capacity grain bin and VersaLoop round tube chain conveyor to its list of products. GSI carried forward some of the features of the […] Read more

Machinery

End-of-season storage tips from AGCO

The “FARMS” acronym summarizes AGCO’s recommendations for winter equipment storage procedures

By Scott Garvey January 7, 2015

To help farmers ensure all the bases are covered when winterizing their equipment, AGCO recently introduced its “FARMS” concept, which includes five primary steps designed to protect equipment during storage and ensure it’s ready to go next spring. “Without taking time this fall to care for their tractors and other implements, farmers are risking a […] Read more

Crops, Machinery

Que. Caterpillar dealer to shed ag equipment arm

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News December 31, 2014

Caterpillar’s dealer for Quebec and the Maritime provinces is set to sell its Quebec farm equipment business to a chain of Agco dealerships. Hewitt Equipment — the authorized Cat dealer for Quebec and western Labrador and, through its Atlantic Tractors and Equipment arm, for the Maritimes — announced recently it will sell its ag division […] Read more

Sunflower 6650 vertical tillage implements are now available in working widths up to approximately 48 feet.

Machinery

New implements from AGCO

At the U.S. Farm Progress show in August, AGCO introduced wider working widths for Sunflower tandem disc harrow and vertical tillage implements

By Scott Garvey December 23, 2014

AGCO added new Sunflower brand models to two of its tillage implement lines in August —the 1436SW (the SW refers to the split wing frame design) tandem disc harrow and the 6650 vertical tillage tool. AGCO gave farmers their first look at them during the U.S. Farm Progress Show in the early fall. The new […] Read more

Machinery

How engineers invented the rubber-belted ag tractor

Part two: We finish the story by revealing how two research engineers at Caterpillar teamed up to merge ag crawlers with rubber belts

By Scott Garvey November 7, 2014

In the late 1970s, Caterpillar had been selling a limited number of SA (Special Application) crawlers to farmers. But the high-horsepower, articulated, four-wheel drive ag tractors that were pouring onto the market were eating into demand for those machines. For that and other reasons Caterpillar executives eventually decided to develop and market their own four-wheel […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Reuters

Agco posts lower profit on falling crop prices

By Reuters, GFM Network News October 28, 2014

Reuters — Agco Corp. posted a lower quarterly profit Tuesday as growers around the globe, faced with falling prices for farm commodities, purchased fewer tractors and harvesters. The company, which makes equipment sold under the Challenger, Fendt, Massey Ferguson and Valtra brand names, reported a third-quarter net profit of $65 million, down from $125.2 million […] Read more

Machinery

Fendt 900 Series tractors offer updated features for 2014

AGCO included its German-built Fendt tractors  in a product demonstration day in Minnesota

By Scott Garvey September 24, 2014

When AGCO invited members of the farm media to its Jackson, Minnesota, tractor and sprayer assembly plant to look at new equipment, it didn’t limit what was on display to only machines built in there. Management also wanted to show off the newest models in its German-built Fendt tractor line, including a 900 Series tractor […] Read more

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Tag Archives agco

An Antarctic Massey Ferguson tractor for your farm

AGCO updates its RG700 RoGator

AGCO’s new pre-owned program

New grain storage products from GSI

End-of-season storage tips from AGCO

Que. Caterpillar dealer to shed ag equipment arm

New implements from AGCO

How engineers invented the rubber-belted ag tractor

Agco posts lower profit on falling crop prices

Fendt 900 Series tractors offer updated features for 2014

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