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

FendtONE improves digital access

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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.
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
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
In July AGCO introduced the 296 to 415 hp 900 Series row-crop Fendt tractors designed for the North American market.
Equipment, Machinery

Fendt introduces the 900 Series tractor

AGCO looks to dominate the premium high-horsepower tractor market

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In late June Grainews joined a group of machinery writers that was given a preview look at Fendt’s newest tractors, the 900 Series Gen 6, which offers five models between 296 and 415 engine horsepower. To put it plainly, they are smaller versions of the unique 1000 Series tractors introduced a couple of years ago. […] Read more

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