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The Fenix III metering system from Seed Hawk uses an entirely new and more powerful motor design mounted outside the metering body.
Crops, Machinery

Seeding innovations roundup

2016 saw manufacturers introduce several enhancements to their equipment. Here’s a look at the year’s highlights

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Reading Time: 6 minutes During 2016, several Prairie-based seeding equipment manufacturers announced new design enhancements to meet customer demand. Here’s a look at the major announcements that will begin production for 2017 model-year machines. Seed Hawk Responding to problems reported on the iCon seeding system it introduced in 2014, Saskatchewan-based Seed Hawk — now owned by Swedish manufacturer Vaderstad […] Read more
An international assemblage of reporters clambers to see the Premos 5000 in-field pelleter in action during Krone’s field day in Hungary in June.
Machinery

Krone wants you to buy

Is this the right time for offshore brands to make a play for a bigger chunk of the North American equipment market? Is it even possible for them to get onto your farm?

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Reading Time: 5 minutes As he stood in front of a group of more than 100 farm journalists from a wide range of countries, Bernard Krone, president of Krone, a family-owned forage equipment brand based in Germany, wanted us to know why his company had partnered with Lemken, another German manufacturer, to hold an international media event in northern […] Read more
The new Pro-Drive Standard tractors add lower-spec “economy” models to the existing X7 line.
Machinery, Machinery Guide

More new tractors from McCormick

The Italian brand adds both low- and high-spec utility models

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Reading Time: 4 minutes For several years now, ag machinery has been all about technology. But the more advanced our tractor design becomes, the more push-back we see from a segment of the market demanding machines without all the newest features and technology. After all, tractors have been doing farm chores since the early part of the last century […] Read more
The Harper Adams working group: (l to r) research assistant Martin Abell, robotics researcher Jonathan Gill and Kit Franklin, ag engineering and project manager.
Machinery

Thinking small with a big idea

Britain’s “Hands Free Hectare” project is developing the model that you may need to build tomorrow’s farm on

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Reading Time: 6 minutes As a kid, I can vividly remember one particular occasion sitting on the steps in my grandparents’ old farmhouse in the late 1960s looking at an issue of Country Guide. One image from its pages still sticks in my memory. It was an advertisement showing Massey-Ferguson’s newest line of tractors. Why did that mental image […] 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
Lemken’s new Azurit 9 planter is being introduced in Europe this year. The brand expects to offer a 16 row version in Canada in 
the future.
Machinery, Machinery Guide

Lemken gets strategic

German company puts its focus on building a wider range of machinery for Canadian farms

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Missouri may call itself the “Show Me” state, but in my experience, farmers demonstrate more of that “prove it to me” trait more than any other group — and for good reason. Over the decades they’ve heard machinery manufacturers make a lot of claims about the capabilities of their machines. Most of the claims turn […] Read more
Case IH adds to its AFS Connect product line.
Machinery

Case IH offers new guidance products

Dealer-established RTK network, easier data transfer and retrofit auto-steer packages

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Case IH announced early this year it is adding three new products and services to its AFS Connect product line. First, it will establish a network of dealer-supported RTK base stations across Canada and the U.S. This cellular-based guidance correction signal will be available via subscription through local dealers. The brand expects this network will […] 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
The 428 horsepower Kirovets K744 joined the MTZ tractor line in Canada in June. Base price for this tractor is just US$198,000.
Machinery, Machinery Guide

A new Tier 3 tractor

MTZ Equipment adds the aggressively priced, high-horsepower Kirovets tractors to its lineup

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Any farmer who’s ever worn a hat with a machinery-brand logo on it has likely heard of Belarus tractors, although that doesn’t mean all those farmers ever believed that Belarus really measured up to the top-selling North American-built machines, whether in green, red, blue or yellow. That’s fair enough, because right from their introduction to […] Read more
John Deere StarFire 6000 receiver
Machinery, Machinery Guide

John Deere offers new guidance receiver

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Reading Time: 2 minutes John Deere has again updated its satellite guidance product line with the introduction of the StarFire 6000 receiver and new SF3 signal correction. In a June press announcement, the company claims these new product offerings will give customers “greater precision capabilities, accuracy and uptime.” “The StarFire 6000 Receiver offers a full range of differential correction […] Read more

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