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AGCO bets big on China
Guide Business, Machinery

AGCO bets big on China

While the war of words heats up between Beijing and Washington, AGCO is becoming a major player in the Chinese economy

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Reading Time: 6 minutes One of the world’s largest farm equipment manufacturers is predicting a bright future in China, and it is putting its money behind that belief. AGCO, parent company of well-known brands Massey Ferguson, Fendt, Valtra, GSI, and Challenger, has opened a new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Changzhou to serve both its international needs and what it […] Read more
Brand executives believe the 1000 Series machines can replace two tractors by combining the pulling power of a smaller articulated tractor with the convenience of a rigid-frame machine.
Machinery, Machinery Guide

Challenger tames the tiger

Two transmission outputs drive AGCO’s new 1000 Series

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Reading Time: 4 minutes At this year’s U.S. Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa, AGCO’s senior VP and general manager for the Americas Bob Crain was clearly enthusiastic about the new tractors he was there to introduce, particularly the 1000 Series very-high horsepower, rigid-frame models that were originally introduced under the Fendt brand last year. Now, they are also […] Read more
(Greg Berg photo)
Crops, Machinery, Reuters

Deere challenges U.S. federal block on Precision Planting bid

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — Deere and Co. said its proposal to buy Precision Planting, an agricultural equipment and technology company, will increase consumer choice and directly benefit growers, in a response filed on Wednesday to the U.S. Department of Justice’s lawsuit to block the acquisition. Deere announced its planned acquisition of Precision Planting in November 2015, for […] Read more
In an unusual move, AGCO president and CEO chose to introduce new Challenger tractors to stock market investors rather than at an agricultural event.
Guide Business, Machinery

Bad news for ag’s Big 3 farm equipment manufacturers

With three-quarters of machinery makers already planning lay-offs, Brexit’s damage to the EU is creating more worry

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Reading Time: 4 minutes On the eve of Britain’s June 23 vote, I was in Hungary eating supper with a group of journalists including a freelancer who is also part of a family farm operation in England. She was the one to correctly predict the “leave” victory. That farmers would vote to leave the EU was astonishing to me. […] Read more
Robert Ciecko, vice-president of Hesston manufacturing, discusses the assembly procedure for these Massey Ferguson swathers while guiding journalists through the hay tool and combine assembly plant.
Machinery

The four Ms get down to work

AGCO’s Robert Ciecko shares his strategy for winning with lean manufacturing in agriculture

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Reading Time: 5 minutes While touring the assembly lines at AGCO’s huge combine and hay-tool plant at Hesston, Kansas, I admit I stopped counting how many workers were greeted by name by Robert Ciecko as he guided our group. But I didn’t stop being impressed by how, at virtually every station, waves came from the workers, or at least […] Read more
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Crops, Machinery, Reuters

Farm tech investment drops off after record year

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — Investor backing for agriculture technology startups cooled in the first half of 2016 after record global investment last year, according to industry data released on Monday. Funding from venture capitalists and others totaled US$1.8 billion through the first six months of the year, down 20 per cent from a year earlier, while the number […] Read more
A 4709 on display at AGCO’s exhibit during Agritechnica in November. The “Tractor of the Year” award decal is visible on the 5713SL behind it.
Machinery, Machinery Guide

Farm tractors with global design in mind

AGCO’s new MF utility tractors are designed for worldwide appeal

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Back in early 1970, International Harvester released two tractors that made up what it called its Worldwide Series. The idea was to use shared platforms to build tractors that could appeal to farmers in every market where the brand had a presence. They would meet a global need — or that was the hope. Standardized […] Read more
Fleet management technology is already pre-wired into an increasing number of tractors and combines. To date, uptake has been modest, but the machinery sector expects interest to explode in the next two years.
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Manage your farm fleet

The trucking industry is adopting technology to ramp up its strategic fleet management. Is it time for farmers to get on board too?

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Reading Time: 6 minutes It’s standard now for truck companies to use GPS and sensors to track operations and vehicle maintenance from a central office. Driver performance gets recorded, efficiency gets analyzed and truck costs get scrutinized, not to mention all the stats that need to get pulled together for government paperwork in the transportation sector. On the farm, […] Read more
At the 2013 Agritechnica, Fendt introduced the X Concept tractor, which is capable of delivering 700-volt DC power to implements. But it is not yet market ready.
Machinery, Machinery Guide

ElectricPOWER your farm implements?

These 700-volt systems may be the kickstart the industry needs

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Reading Time: 3 minutes For a group of young boys standing around the Fendt display at the Agritechnica machinery expo in Hanover, Germany, earlier this winter, the prototype model Former 12555X electric hay rake on show was a little like a video game. By sliding a finger across a screen, they could use the touch pad computer on the […] Read more
On display at Agritechnica, the Fendt 1000 tractor will be launched in North America early this year, wearing both Fendt and Challenger badges.
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Farm machinery gets political

AGCO chief Martin Richenhagen fields unusual questions at a corporate press conference in Germany

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Suddenly the discussion became political, turning AGCO’s Fendt-brand press conference during last November’s Agritechnica machinery show in Hanover, Germany, into one of the most unique I can remember attending. Standing on stage with a German journalist who was acting as event host, AGCO CEO and president Martin Richenhagen eventually found himself talking about larger political […] Read more

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