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AGCO has introduced an updated line of four MT800 tractors that top out at 673 horsepower.
Equipment, Machinery

AGCO updates the MT800 Challenger tractors

Tracked Challengers an updated Fendt alternative

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Last December, AGCO gave its Challenger dealers a bit of a Christmas present. It announced an updated line of MT800 Challenger tracked tractors that mirror its Fendt 1100 MT series brothers. The four new Challenger models, with 511, 564, 618 and 673 horsepower ratings, match the Fendts’ power outputs exactly. A spec sheet comparison between […] Read more
Fendt continues to develop the 65-horsepower e100 electric drive concept tractor.
Equipment, Machinery

Development of Fendt’s e100 electric tractor continues

Fendt’s pursuit of electric drive concepts goes back about a decade

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Last October, AGCO’s Fendt brand announced that its engineers were still working on the e100 concept electric tractor it debuted in 2017. It’s apparently a promising design making measurable progress toward possible future commercialization. “The current development status of the Fendt e100 Vario compact tractor is encouraging and promises high efficiency with a careful use […] Read more
AGCO’s “Virtual Product Showroom” allows for enhanced looks at machinery as well as tours of its Jackson, Minn., assembly plant and visitor centre.
Equipment, Machinery, News

No farm show, no problem

Brands go digital to keep in touch with farmers

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There have been many changes to our lives lately because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The cancellation of farm shows all across North America is just one of them. The trouble for farm machinery brands is those shows have long been an important part of their marketing efforts as places where potential buyers get up close […] Read more
Improperly cleaned spray booms create a V-shaped pattern of crop damage when starting a new field requiring a different herbicide.
Equipment, Features, Machinery

How recirculating booms can help slow herbicide resistance

AGCO demonstrates value of new sprayer tech with crop tour

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Just a few years ago, herbicide resistance in weeds was something that seemed like a distant concern, something occurring elsewhere; however, it should be no surprise to anyone that today the International Survey of Herbicide-Resistant Weeds, which is a collaborative effort between weed scientists in more than 80 countries, says that is no longer true. […] Read more
AGCO is testing the effect of tire inflation pressures on crop growth with its new Fendt Momentum planter.
Machinery, News

High tire inflation pressures stunt plant development

AGCO Crop Tour demonstrates tire pressure’s effect on crop growth

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Two years ago, AGCO media relations staff introduced Jason Lee at a press event at the AGCO assembly plant in Jackson, Minn. He was the company’s new agronomist and farm solutions specialist and his job — among other things — was to measure the brand’s equipment designs’ effects on crop production. That data, he said, […] Read more
AGCO is introducing the 900 MT and 1100 MT tracked versions of its premium Fendt brand to North America.
Features, Machinery

Fendt expands its North American tractor offering

More model lines from AGCO’s Fendt

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Fendt’s traditional home and main tractor manufacturing facility is nestled in picturesque Bavaria, in southern Germany, and it’s just a 35-minute cab ride at 210 kilometres per hour on the Autobahn from Munich’s airport. (Trust me on that.) The Marktoberdorf facility is extremely modern and builds the brand’s several wheeled tractor model lines. But here […] Read more
GrainViz engineer Braden Pierce explains the system to farmers at Ag Days at Brandon, Man. in 2018. (Screengrab from GFM/Greg Berg video)
Crops, Machinery

Agco to buy GrainViz system’s Winnipeg developer

System due out in limited release this fall

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U.S. farm machinery firm Agco has set up a deal to buy its Winnipeg partner in the development of the GSI GrainViz grain monitoring system. Georgia-based Agco announced Friday it now has an agreement to acquire 151 Research, with which it had signed an “exclusive technology partnership” back in December 2018 to develop the GrainViz […] Read more
The new steering system increases the combine operator’s 
comfort and provides easy 
access to controls.
Machinery

Joystick-controlled steering offered on IDEAL combine

IDEALDrive offers more operator comfort and better visibility

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AGCO continues to improve its award-winning Fendt IDEAL combine. IDEALDrive is a joystick-operated steering system that will be available to North American farmers for the 2021 harvest season. The innovation is a direct result of the implementation of customer suggestions. How it works: IDEALDrive is a joystick-operated steering system that will be available to North […] Read more
Agco plans to have its IdealDrive joysticks in North American fields in 2021. (Photo courtesy Agco)
Crops, Machinery

Fendt takes (out) the wheel on new combines

Agco says it's first of majors to offer joystick steering

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Agco has officially declared itself to be the first major farm equipment player to put joystick steering in a combine. The ag equipment manufacturer unveiled IdealDrive on Thursday during the Commodity Classic in San Antonio, billing the new steering system for its Fendt Ideal combines as “the first joystick steering system on a combine from […] Read more
The number of authorized Fendt dealers across Canada and the U.S. has doubled in the last 12 months.
Machinery

AGCO doubles Fendt dealerships

AGCO operations ramp up North American focus on Fendt

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If it feels like you’ve been hearing the Fendt name more than usual lately, you’re probably right. Of the four major brands acquired by AGCO since it was formed, Deutz-Allis (which was discontinued), Massey Ferguson, Challenger, and Fendt, AGCO is beginning to put more of its marketing eggs in the Fendt basket here in North […] Read more

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