Fendt’s new 300 series 100- to 132-horsepower utility class tractors are now available in North America.

Fendt 300 Vario Gen4 tractors arrive

The promised new 300 series tractors now available for order

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

Fendt’s Ideal combines now offer AutoDock, an automated header attachment system.

AGCO introduces the AutoDock for Ideal combines

The Ideal can connect to a head in just five seconds

Harvest is that time of year when every minute counts, and there probably isn’t a grower who hasn’t cut corners in some way to save time and cover a few more acres while the weather holds. Taking a gamble by not removing a very wide header from a combine to move it down a public […] Read more


AGCO’s Fendt brand has entered into a long-term partnership with Geringhoff. Germany-based Geringhoff is a combine header manufacturer, which builds a wide range of models, including flex draper headers, corn pickers and headers for specialty crops.

Geringhoff partners with AGCO

Last December, AGCO’s Fendt brand announced it had entered into a “long-term partnership” with Geringhoff, a combine header manufacturer based in the Westphalia region of Germany. Geringhoff builds a pretty wide range of models, including flex draper headers, corn pickers and headers for specialty crops. Geringhoff’s offerings also include the Harvest Star Vario, which features […] Read more



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

AGCO updates the MT800 Challenger tractors

Tracked Challengers an updated Fendt alternative

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.

Development of Fendt’s e100 electric tractor continues

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

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


The new FendtONE operator interface relies on up to three display screens.

FendtONE improves digital access

Improved operator interface makes tractor and implement control easier

Among the key trends influencing machinery design across all brands today is operator comfort. As part of that, making digital control and access simpler and more intuitive has figured high for engineering priorities as well. AGCO’s Fendt brand has been working on those priorities too. The latest result of that effort is the introduction of […] Read more

AGCO is introducing the 900 MT and 1100 MT tracked versions of its premium Fendt brand to North America.

Fendt expands its North American tractor offering

More model lines from AGCO’s Fendt

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


The new steering system increases the combine operator’s 
comfort and provides easy 
access to controls.

Joystick-controlled steering offered on IDEAL combine

IDEALDrive offers more operator comfort and better visibility

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)

Fendt takes (out) the wheel on new combines

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

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