Syngenta's Garst brand ends in 2014
The Garst name on hybrids will not be used by Syngenta after 2013. Syngenta is rebranding its hybrids under Golden Harvest and upgrading its Seed Advisors who sell the seed.
Steerable grain cart tracks, tillage tools, loaders and more from 2013 National Farm Machinery Show
New equipment at the National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville included products from Balzer, Air Barn, Unverferth, PECO, Chandler Spreaders, GVM, JCB, MacDon, Agromatic, Salford, Schulte, and Loftness.
New products at National Farm Machinery Show from Air-Barn, Kemco, Digi-Star, Thunder Creek, Norstar Industries, and more
The National Farm Machinery Show features a wide array of products. Team FIN farmers for Farm Industry News identified a number of products that caught their eye, from a bagging system for dry hay and a 3-in-1 welder/compressor/generator to durable work lights and a simple rack for storing hose. Here's a look at products from Thunder Creek, Digi-Star, Norstar Industries, Gecko's Toes, Kemco Manufacturing and Trouble Free Lighting as well as the Air Barn and Creatherm products.
Iowa Power Farming Show - gallery 2
New products at the Iowa Power Farming Show held last week in Des Moines, Iowa, were Capstan's PinPoint nozzle system, Unverferth Seed Runner, Parker grain cart with tracks, Rite Way land roller, Quality Plus grain conveyor and a PLA self-propelled sprayer from Argentina.
Iowa Power Farming Show - gallery 1
New equipment on display at the Iowa Power Farming Show held last week in Des Moines, Iowa, include machinery from Westfield, Brandt, Great Plains, Miller, and Landoll, as well as the Gaspardo planter from Italy.
The row narrows: Testing 12-in. corn rows
Narrow-row corn just got narrower. Stine Seed Company planted and harvested 2,500 acres of 12-in.-row corn in central Iowa last year. A hybrid designed for high density production yielded 320 to 330 bu./acre on the cropland.
“(The fields) were up where we had a little extra rain and a little extra nitrogen on it,” reports Harry Stine, president, Stine Seed. “Most of our other yields were much lower with a farm average of 145 bu./acre (mostly 22½-in. rows).”
New Disk Ripper from John Deere for heavy-duty tillage
The latest tillage implement from John Deere is the new 2720 Disk Ripper with a disk-ripper-disk configuration. This heavy-duty primary tillage tool will size and bury crop residue, penetrate and shatter compacted soils, and mix and level the soil. The new tool features a gang design with heavier C-springs, thicker gang tubes and the largest gang bolt in the industry, according to Deere.
One of the world's largest farm shows will be held Paris in late February
Editor’s note: Farm Industry News will be attending the SIMA show and will provide coverage here online.
One of the world’s largest farm shows will be held in Paris from Feb. 24 to 28, 2013. Called SIMA, the International Trade Exhibition for Agricultural Equipment and Livestock Farming is held every two years in the famous French city at the Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center.
