Reading Time: 2 minutes Here it is, late April, with harvest still a distant dream, yet we’re talking grain carts and wagons? Yes, because with agriculture evolving so rapidly, there’s no such thing as an off-season in farming. Farmers are always learning, always looking for options. That’s why this post to Machinery Guide is taking a seasonally proactive approach. […] Read more
Grain carts and wagons: Part 1
Equipment to get your crops off the field when it's ready for harvest
Planter equipment to help you in the field
Plus, a new Bobcat compatible with 40 or more attachments
Reading Time: 3 minutes What’s new? At this time of year, that’s a question that applies to a lot of things on the farm, from the weather forecast to the crop plan, the commodity price outlook, and of course, machinery. This is that “in between” time, after the farm shows and before the ground is quite ready. This past […] Read more
Get ready to “make hay” with new offerings of mowers and windrowers
Reading Time: 3 minutes If the number of product launches is any indication, there’s a sense of anticipation in forages this year. In this edition of Machinery Guide, you’ll see that mower conditions and self-propelled windrowers make up an exciting segment of offerings from manufacturers wanting to “make hay” in 2014. Check out these descriptions, first, then get ready […] Read more
Chain reactions
Reading Time: 5 minutes Losing a dealership chain creates distance between manufacturer and customer. As farmers get more sophisticated, the companies are exploring new strategies to bridge that divide “Claas to open corporate dealership chain,” the headline above the brief news item said in a European farm magazine this spring. But beneath that simple announcement lay a difficult marketing […] Read more
Making a comeback
New Holland’s restructured management team has launched an aggressive plan to push the company back into the spotlight
Reading Time: 4 minutes New Holland is back,” Abe Hughes II, the company’s vice-president of sales and marketing for North America declared to a group of farm writers in late April at the company’s North American headquarters in Pennsylvania. It was just one sentence, but it is worth coming over 1,500 miles to hear. In a very real sense, […] Read moreMachinery Guide
On more and more farms, the grain cart is as vital to getting the crop out of the field as the combine. That’s increasingly true regardless of farm size, with many smaller operations pencilling out the advantages that come from their enhanced efficiency. Whether your operation is expanding or specializing, grain cart manufacturers are tweaking their designs to take those efficiencies to new heights, as you’ll see from this month’s brief survey of some of the newest models.
Reading Time: 2 minutes J&M LEANER As farms get bigger, so do combine headers, and one challenge growers face in the field is overlaps between the grain cart and the combine. But J&M grain carts have an answer, with the Leaner series for 1,130-, 1,250- and 1,500-bushel capacities. The Leaner is an extender that is bolted on to […] Read moreMachinery Guide
Getting that crop into the ground quickly, accurately and on time is crucial. Increasingly on today’s farms, innovative air seeders and drills can help us do just that. It’s all about air, and it’s also all about precision placement of seed and fertilizer, which is why this edition of Machinery Guide is all about air seeders.
Reading Time: 3 minutes horsch anderson planting systems ps 40-15 ps 60-15 Horsch Anderson offers the 60-ft. PS 60-15 and 40-ft. PS 40-15 air drills. Both drills have a 19-ft. transport width and a 16-ft. transport height. The five-section PS 60-15 has 48 openers versus 32 for the three-section PS 40-15. These “planting systems” can be used for […] Read moreMachinery Guide
Reading Time: 3 minutes dynamic tire corporation galaxy ag radials The Galaxy line of agricultural tires are imported from China and compete on price. The company says they compete on performance too. The Galaxy line features many farm tires, with the Galaxy Ag Radial R-1 tractor tire offering a highly versatile multi-angle design. The Galaxy Ag Radial has a […] Read more
Machinery Guide
It’s no wonder farmers put such pride in their combines. There’s no feeling like the harvest season when every thing is working smoothly. Besides, today’s combines are beautiful feats of engineering — and as the new breakthroughs in combine technology show, they just keep getting better.
Reading Time: 3 minutes massey ferguson 9500 series Massey Ferguson introduced their Next Generation axial combines in August 2011, saying the new 9500 Series combines are the most productive and efficient combines they have ever offered. The 9500 Series consists of three models, the 9520, 9540 and 9560 from 313 to 460 max horsepower. At the heart of the […] Read moreMachinery Guide, April 2012
It’s all about speed, power and efficiency when it comes to today’s self-propelled field sprayers. In this issue, we take a closer look to find where those differences start.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Rogator rg900, rg1100 and rg1300 Rogator RG900, RG1100 and RG1300 sprayers are designed to move quickly and easily among a wide variety of crops, crop heights and field conditions. According to Rogator, their drive package also gives you more horsepower than ever before and matches it to the payload capacity, giving you more consistent […] Read moreA message from April Stewart, Country Guide's Associate Editor
