The Kubota “Transformer” KVPR concept autonomous tractor can change its dimensions and handle a wide range of implements.

Kubota introduces more tech at CES

The Japanese company displays two autonomous tractors including a futuristic model that doesn’t have an operator station

Ag equipment manufacturers were back showing their advanced technology at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in early January.






A Kubota C2501F high-speed compact disc.

Kubota to continue shortlines’ brand names

For Great Plains and Kverneland, the names remain the same

“We intend to respect the distinctiveness of the brands, trademarks and operational strengths. Doing so will allow employees, dealers and customers to do business with the same great companies they have come to know and trust.”

 Kubota's KATR autonomous off-road machine is designed to be the foundation for a system that can carry out a range of farming (and other off-road) tasks.

Ag brands show more autonomy, EV innovation at CES

Kubota, John Deere unveil new concept and production models

A decade or two ago no one likely would have imagined the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas would become the chosen venue for farm equipment brands to debut their machines. But in the last couple of years, major brands have started to use it to reveal their newest technologies. This year Kubota was back […] Read more


Two new hydrostatic-drive diesel UTV models from Kubota offer updated styling and a more comfortable cab, along with a transmission improvement.

Kubota’s new UTVs offer hydrostatic transmission for ‘finesse’ work

RTV-X Cab and Crew models offer updated styling, design improvements

In early November Kubota introduced two new models to its RTV line of side-by-side UTVs: the RTV-X Cab and RTV-X Crew. They will replace the current X1140 and X1100C. With these new models the band is also taking a little different marketing tack by moving away from straight number designations for its models and giving […] Read more

Kubota M7 and M8 tractors now come auto guidance-ready, with an open-architecture system that allows for any third-party GPS system.

Kubota to expand in-house guidance system offering

The brand’s current open architecture also allows for third-party guidance options

As Kubota continues to move toward being an ever-more-significant player in the ag equipment market, its two highest-horsepower tractor lines now come auto guidance-ready. The brand recognizes many of the farms that use its tractors are also likely to have other major brand machinery and already use the auto-guidance systems those companies provide. So Kubota […] Read more


Editors spent a week with Kubota’s RTV-XG850 Rancher Special Edition model to see how it would fit into a typical farm operation.

We review the Kubota RTV-XG850

Grainews’ practical test puts the new ‘full size’ UTV through its paces

In September, Glacier FarmMedia editors had a chance to spend a few days with one of Kubota’s newest side-by-sides, an RTV-XG850 Rancher Special Edition. Kubota calls this model line its “full size” UTVs. The XG850 model comes in five different variations. The Rancher Special Edition offers a sort of mid- to higher-range level of features, […] Read more

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VIDEO: Field testing the Kubota RTV-XG850 UTV

In the market for a new UTV to help out with chores on your farm? Greg Berg and Scott Garvey of Glacier FarmMedia spent a week with the Kubota-XG850 UTV, putting it to the kind of jobs farmers would use it for. What did they think of it? Here’s their review.