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Precision alliance

Dec 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Karen McMahon

TWO MAJOR precision ag companies recently have created an alliance to develop new precision products for farming. Ag Leader of Ames, IA, with its precision...

Good buy: Ten degrees of tillage

A NEW vertical tillage system from Landoll can help growers who have struggled with a late harvest and wet soils. The new VTPlus tillage system is equipped...

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Combines

AGCO phase out

Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Jodie Wehrspann

IT HAS been almost two months since AGCO Senior Vice President and General Manager Bob Crain issued a letter to dealers that the AGCO brand name will...

Cob collection

Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Lynn Grooms

IN FALL 2008, the ethanol company POET held a field day at its plant in Emmetsburg, IA, featuring equipment that could harvest grain as well as cobs in...

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Grain Handling

Free-span grain bins

Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM

COMMERCIAL-SIZE, FREE-SPAN grain bins are available from Sukup Manufacturing Company, Sheffield, IA. The company recently erected a bin in Arthur, IA,...

Million-plus-bushel grain bins

Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM

THE NEW M Series line of commercial grain storage bins from Brock Grain Systems will hold more than a million bushels of grain. The largest of the Brock...

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Hay

Flex-wing cutter

Mar 9, 2010 12:35 PM

Rhino says its new TS12 Stealth flex-wing cutter is strong but lighter weight to fit smaller tractors in the 35 to 50 PTO hp range...

Hot from Sunbelt

Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, Story by Karen McMahon

Tractors from Korea LS TRACTOR is a new name but not a newcomer to the U.S. The Korean manufacturer has supplied tractors on an OEM basis since 1998 and...

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Livestock

N stabilizer approved

Oct 1, 2009 12:00 PM

THE NITROGEN stabilizer product called Instinct for use with manure and UAN has received full federal registration for use. Dow AgroSciences developed...

A waiting game

Oct 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Mark Moore

AS ALFALFA producers gear up for 2010, industry sources indicate that seed supplies could be tight especially for the elite alfalfa products. We've seen...

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Planters

FINcast: #10: New precision farming products from TeeJet, Raven, Trimble and Hemisphere

Mar 10, 2010 9:40 AM

At Ag Connect, several companies introduced the latest precision agriculture products to farmers...

Pumped!

Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Jodie Wehrspann

Most of the world doesn't think tractor hydraulics is very exciting. But engineer Rich Job thinks it is. For instance, Job will tell you how, when he...

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Precision Farming

FINcast: #10: New precision farming products from TeeJet, Raven, Trimble and Hemisphere

Mar 10, 2010 9:40 AM

At Ag Connect, several companies introduced the latest precision agriculture products to farmers...

Vehicle tracking

Feb 16, 2010 2:39 PM

Track the location, status and job hours of your farm vehicle fleet from your computer with a new telemetry product from AGCO called AgCommand...

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Sprayers

20 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW NOW

Feb 15, 2010 12:00 PM

Organic food production cannot feed the world. OPINIONS ABOUT the potential for organic food production vary widely...

Sprayer Tires

Feb 15, 2010 12:00 PM

Titan Tire Corporation, maker of Titan and Goodyear Farm Tire brand tires, unveiled its first tire designed specifically for sprayers at the Ag Connect show in Orlando last month...

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Tillage

Pumped!

Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Jodie Wehrspann

Most of the world doesn't think tractor hydraulics is very exciting. But engineer Rich Job thinks it is. For instance, Job will tell you how, when he...

Good buy: Ten degrees of tillage

Dec 1, 2009 12:00 PM

A NEW vertical tillage system from Landoll can help growers who have struggled with a late harvest and wet soils. The new VTPlus tillage system is equipped...

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