Computer vision and AI processing for farm machinery show up many times in Agritechnica’s 2025 innovation award winners.
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Machinery automation runs through 2025 Agritechnica innovation awards
Computer vision and AI processing is bringing more control to farm machinery
New Holland 9200 Series corn heads
“We need high-capacity front equipment to get the high capacity out of the base unit”
The 9200s come in four configurations: eight-row, 12-row, 16-row and 18-row, with spacings ranging between 20, 22 and 30 inches.
Research confirms value of taller crop stubble
Technology is available to help set up, measure and monitor on-farm research projects
Leaving taller crop stubble in the fall can improve the odds of higher crop yield in the following year, says Saskatchewan crop consultant Mike Palmier. His field observations in the 2021 growing season, followed by on-farm research trials through 2022 and 2023, produced data to support a recommendation to leave taller crop stubble. Even a […] Read more
MacDon’s FD261 meant to feed more ravenous combines
Winnipeg manufacturer's new header stretches to 61 feet of cutting width
All the major brands now have Class 10-plus combines on the market — and those machines have a big appetite. Winnipeg-based MacDon has introduced a massive header that can feed those machines fast and keep their hunger satisfied. The new 61-foot wide FD261 FlexDraper header will be available in limited quantities for the 2025 harvest […] Read more
We check out an Italian-made Drago GT corn header
Italian-built brand available from four- to 24-row widths
As growing grain corn gradually increases in popularity in some prairie regions, more options for combine corn headers are appearing on the market. The Italian-made Drago GT header is one that many producers may not have heard of — yet. Grainews recently reviewed some of the features of the newest Drago GT with the vice-president […] Read more
Learn to get the best performance from a combine
Bushel Plus Harvest Academy will run training programs for growers starting this year
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
Code clash limits header options
Digital lockouts by OEMs may begin forcing combine buyers to forgo shortline headers
For many farmers, pairing their favourite brand of combine with a header from a Prairie shortline manufacturer makes a preferred package. Recently, though, some OEMs have denied header manufacturers the command set code needed to link the header with some combine and swather models’ digital systems — which means buyers of those machines will have […] Read more
TruFlex Razor Draper header a “premium” design
Geringhoff header's features include air system, hydraulic drive, maximum flex
One of the European implement brands that have set up shop in North America in recent decades is Geringhoff, a combine header manufacturer based in Germany — and it’s offering Canadian producers a draper model its western Canadian territory manager, Lucas Haas, calls a premium design. Geringhoff’s TruFlex Razor Draper header offers some unique features […] Read more
Straight combining — a new learning experience
Harvest underway, and here’s hoping there is enough hay bales for the winter
This year I had the opportunity to learn something new. I had never combined with a straight cut header. We had some organic barley that was very short. Gregory was afraid that we would lose most of it if he swathed it, so he put the straight cut header on my combine as well as […] Read more
New combine header line from John Deere
Updated header options for X, S and T series combines
Ever since the initial introduction of the S series models, John Deere engineers have been offering buyers additional ability to spec out green combines to better suit either corn and beans or small grains crops. And this year, Deere has gone another step further with the introduction of a completely new group of headers tailored […] Read more
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