Agricultural Equipment Articles

LiuGong Brings Battery Electric 856H-E MAX Wheel Loader to North America →

From Construction Equipment Guide... LiuGong will showcase its newest battery electric wheel loader for the North American market at the 2023 ConExpo-Con/AGG show. The LiuGong 856H-E MAX wheel loader is part of the company's range of electric construction vehicles worldwide. At ConExpo, booth F9205 in the Festival Grounds, LiuGong will demonstrate how its battery electric vehicles stack up with conventional machines and guide dealers through the process of going electric. Click for more...

New Holland, Raven Industries Donate Precision Agricultural Education Simulators to 11 FFA Chapters →

New Holland North America and Raven Industries, on the occasion of supporting and celebrating National FFA Week's Give FFA Day, announced the donation of agricultural technology education simulators to 11 FFA chapters across the United States. After a rigorous selection process, the FFA chapters picked as finalists are Botkins FFA in Ohio, Cedar Crest FFA in Pennsylvania, Chicago Ag Sciences FFA in Illinois, Dodgeville FFA in Wisconsin, Graves County FFA in Kentucky, Imbler FFA in Oregon, Mosinee FFA in Wisconsin, Rossville FFA Chapter in Indiana, South Hamilton FFA in Iowa, Stockbridge Valley FFA in New York and Whitehall FFA in Wisconsin. Click for more...

Kinze Introduces 5000 Series Row Unit, New Planters for 2024 →

Kinze Manufacturing is launching two planter models for 2024 featuring the company's new 5000 Series row unit that's designed to enhance planting precision, boost productivity and reduce daily maintenance time. The sleek-styled cast row unit is fully redesigned for planting at any speed up to 12 miles per hour. The unit will be available on Kinze's new 5900 and 5700 planter models, both equipped with the easy-to-use Blue Vantage display and powered by Blue Drive electric drive. Click for more...

John Deere, Nutrien Release Advanced Digital Connectivity Solution →

Nutrien Ag Solutions Inc. , a subsidiary of Nutrien Ltd., and John Deere jointly announced the release of advanced digital connectivity between the John Deere Operations Center and Nutrien Ag Solutions' Digital Hub. This connectivity enables both companies to better serve growers by optimizing logistics and enabling variable rate agronomic recommendations to be seamlessly transferred to their equipment for execution. Click for more...

Autonomy Startup Sabanto Expands Business →

Autonomy startup Sabanto brought its unique approach to agriculture by performing field operations for farmers as a service. That's changing with the availability of a retrofit kit for the Kubota M5 tractor. Craig Rupp, founder and CEO of Sabanto, said the idea of bringing autonomous tractors to farmers to do fieldwork in those early days had a purpose. "The onus was on us to get it to work," he said. Click for more...

Trimble Announces Advanced Path Planning Technology Towards Fully Autonomous Equipment →

Trimble announced its new advanced path planning technology. This software-based technology gives Trimble end users and equipment manufacturers the ability to optimize and automate the trajectory, speed and overall path design of industrial equipment to increase efficiency of work. Manufacturers worldwide can now provide their customers with an easy-to-integrate, automated solution that works not only with Trimble systems, but also with an equipment manufacturer's existing system. Click for more...

Raleigh Hosts Successful 45th Annual Farm Show →

The 45th annual Southern Farm Show wrapped up Feb. 3, 2023, and was deemed a great success by an overwhelming number of the 385 exhibiting companies. With nearly 300,000 net sq. ft. of indoor and outdoor exhibit space, the show used nearly all of the NC State Fairgrounds in Raleigh. Approximately 30,000 agricultural, landscape and construction professionals were estimated to have attended the free-admission event. Click for more...

Bobcat Company Advances Innovation in Agriculture Through Partnership With Agtonomy →

Bobcat Company, a global compact equipment, innovation and worksite solutions brand, has partnered with Agtonomy, to advance productivity in the agriculture industry through collaboration in the areas of electrification, autonomous operation and digital technology. Through this partnership, Bobcat and Agtonomy, a Silicon Valley agtech software company, will collaborate to create new and innovative ways of enhancing Bobcat equipment for increased productivity and performance. Click for more...

New Holland Agriculture Launching New Equipment, Highlighting Future of Biomethane Fuel at 2023 World Ag Expo →

At the World Ag Expo, Feb. 14 to 16, 2023, in Tulare, Calif., New Holland Agriculture North America will showcase for the first time in North America a range of new tractors, harvesters and tractor features. New Holland also is hosting an education seminar on biomethane as a fuel source. The World Ag Expo is one of the largest agricultural trade shows in the world. More than 1,400 exhibitors display the latest in farm equipment, services, communications and technology on 2.6 million sq. Click for more...

USDA Officials Tour Iowa's Thunder Creek Equipment →

Thunder Creek Equipment and its parent company LDJ Manufacturing Inc. hosted officials from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) at its newly expanded manufacturing plant in Pella, Iowa, on Feb. 1, 2023. The company added more than 25,000 sq. ft. of new manufacturing space to handle growth in demand for its products in the construction and agricultural sectors — made possible by a $1.5 million loan through the USDA Rural Economic Development Loan and Grant Program (REDLG) and the Pella Cooperative Electric Association (PCEA). Click for more...

ASV to Introduce New Machine, Showcase Numerous 2022 Introductions at ConExpo-Con/AGG 2023 →

ASV, a manufacturer of all-purpose and all-season compact track loaders and skid steers, will introduce a new product and feature the RT-75, RT-135F and the Yanmar-powered RT-40 equipped with ASV's rapidly expanding attachment line in Booth W40059 at ConExpo-Con/AGG 2023 in Las Vegas. ASV will be next to the Yanmar Compact Equipment booth as a visual representation of the two brands working together as one team under the Yanmar Compact Equipment North America umbrella. Click for more...

New Holland Offers Upgrades to T4 F/N/V, TK4 Series Tractors →

New Holland Agriculture is introducing the VisionView cab on the T4 F/N/V Series tractor and a new, more powerful engine and compact hood on the TK4 Series. This series has already started to earn international praise, as the T4.120F won Best Specialized Tractor at the Tractor of the Year 2023 Awards. The coveted title, assigned by a jury of independent journalists specializing in agricultural mechanization, recognizes the best tractor in the market. Click for more...

New Flagship Model in New Holland T7 Long Wheelbase Range Delivers More Power, Comfort, Choices →

A new power-to-weight ratio and performance standard is being set by New Holland Agriculture with the North America introduction of the T7.300 Long Wheelbase (LWB) tractor with PLM Intelligence. As the most powerful and compact tractor in its power bracket, it delivers more power while maintaining the dimensions and maneuverability of other T7 models, the manufacturer said. Complementing this performance, the new model utilizes the superior operator environment of the Horizon Ultra cab and a range of inter-cab technology and features to maximize productivity, efficiency and uptime. Click for more...

Titan Machinery Acquires Pioneer to Improve Case Sales, Service, Support →

Construction and farm equipment heavyweight Titan Machinery has strengthened and unified the positions of Case Construction Equipment throughout the upper Midwest and western United States with the acquisition of Pioneer Farm Equipment Co. The deal closed Feb. 2, 2023, and includes five Pioneer locations throughout Idaho in Rexburg, Idaho Falls, Blackfoot, American Falls and Rupert. Locations will offer the full line of Case Construction Equipment and Case IH agriculture equipment, with the exception of the Rupert location, which will operate only as a Case IH dealer. Click for more...

Premium Performance, Simple-to-Use Technologies Advance Operating Efficiency, Productivity of Cat 950, 962 Wheel Loaders →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Delivering premium performance, the new Cat 950 and 962 Next Generation wheel loaders feature standard simple-to-use technologies that boost operator efficiencies, provide consistent bucket fill factors and increase productivity by up to 10 percent over the previous models. These flexible loaders offer application-specific designs to excel in the toughest applications, while service intervals are extended to lower maintenance costs by up to 30 percent. Click for more...

Bloomfield Robotics Announces Investments From Kubota Corporation, Oeneo →

Bloomfield Robotics, a Pittsburgh-based company that develops AI-driven plant imaging technology for use in specialty crops, announces investments from Kubota Corporation and Oeneo Group SA. Kubota, a world leader in the design and manufacture of agricultural tractors, is renewing its investment and strengthening its commitment to Bloomfield. The aim of this deepened relationship with Bloomfield is to ensure that each farm vehicle becomes a platform for continuous data collection to assess both the health and performance of each plant in the specialty crop sector. Click for more...

CNH Industrial Takes Minority Stake in EarthOptics →

CNH Industrial announced a minority investment in the U.S.-based ag tech company EarthOptics through its Ventures arm. EarthOptics' proprietary sensor technology precisely measures the health and structure of soil through a combination of ground-based sensors, satellites, physical soil samples, machine learning models and agronomic expertise. By providing such a wide range of soil data, this technology enables farmers to better manage their land and enhance its value. Click for more...

John Deere Announces Its 2023 Startup Collaborators →

Deere & Company has released the names of eight companies chosen for its 2023 Startup Collaborator program. The Startup Collaborator was launched in 2019 and helps John Deere enhance precision technology in its agriculture and construction equipment. "This year's group shows the importance of connecting with the startup community across a broad range of applications and technologies," said Julian Sanchez, director of emerging technology at John Deere. Click for more...

New Holland Wins Good Design Award With Straddle Tractor Concept →

New Holland's Straddle Tractor Concept and T4K Tractor are winners in the Good Design Award in the Industrial 2022 category. The Good Design Award is presented by the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd. and each year it honors the most innovative and cutting-edge industrial, product and graphic designs produced around the world. The Straddle Tractor Concept was revealed at SITEVI (salon international des équipements et savoir-faire pour les productions vigne-vin, olive et fruits-légumes) 2021 and is a co-production of New Holland Agriculture and Pininfarina, the internationally recognized design house. Click for more...

Volvo CE Introduces Collision Mitigation System for Jobsite Safety →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Delivering on its vision for zero accidents, Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) launched its collision mitigation system for Volvo wheel loaders — an automatic braking feature that supports operator response and helps reduce the risk or consequences of collision when working in reverse. The first system of its kind from any original equipment manufacturer (OEM), it assists operators while working in reverse and automatically applies service brakes when the wheel loader approaches any obstacle, alerting the operator to take further action. Click for more...

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