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2009 Commodity Classic

New Syngenta herbicides for cereals, grain sorghum

Business brisk at MachineryLink

Big interest in Trimble’s FmX display

Hero and Authority herbicides from FMC

BASF Kixor herbicide pending for 2010

Agrisure Viptera trait from Syngenta for 2010

New Ignite herbicide, LibertyLink soybeans from Bayer CropScience

Crushing knife rolls for Calmer Corn Heads

Chrome Shop Mafia restores combine for MachineryLink

Post your questions here about hard-to-find machinery parts and check out the solutions other farmers have found.

What's New?

Accelerated depreciation for farm equipment

Next generation of hybrid alfalfa

DuPont, Bayer sign biotech cross-licensing agreements

Product Of The Week

Upgradable GPS

Leica Geosystem’s new mojoGlide technology provides dual-frequency positioning capability with 6- to 8-in. pass-to-pass...

Ag Gets a Save (For Now) With Climate Change Bill Amendment
June 25, 2009 Blog by Lynn Grooms
This week, Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) authored an amendment to the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (H.R. 2454), which helps address serious agricultural concerns...

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Jeff Ryan: Guy No. 2

Wednesday means hay stories

Wednesday is the day when the weekly Fort Atkinson Hay Auction is held in beautiful downtown Fort Atkinson, Iowa. Forage producers from near and far bring in loads of ...

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Current Issue

Big thinker

By Karen McMahon and Jodie Wehrspann

Qin Zhang Associate Professor Agricultural and Biological Engineering University of Illinois, gives farm equipment a brain. The mechatronics expert...

Qin Zhang, University of Illinois agricultural engineer, is a mechatronics expert and discusses the role autonomous tractors may hold in for farmers and agriculture in the future.

Good News for Ethanol
May 1, 2009 12:00 PM, From Editor Karen McMahon

Ethanol Fans and motor buffs, take note of an automotive research project just completed at Minnesota State University, Mankato. The project compared...

The Grizzly 550 FI
May 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Jeff Ryan

Just When you think ATVs can't get any better, they do. I agreed to test one of the most recent entries to the utility ATV market the Yamaha Grizzly 550...

Going Green
May 1, 2009 12:00 PM, by Mark Moore

Welcome to BTI-Greensburg, one of the nation's dealerships and that has nothing to do with the paint on the equipment it sells. Every inch of this John...

Frazzled by the sun
May 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By David Hest

Over the next few years, intensified storm activity on the sun could put you in the market for an upgraded guidance system. That's because an expected...

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