SMART MACHINES 

By: by wayne wenzel

IF YOU TOOK a quick glance at John Deere's new product lineup for 2006, you might conclude that nothing much has changed from last year. But you'd be...

ZERO TOLERANCE SEED CLEANOUT 

By: by jodie wehrspann

AFTER NEARLY 30 years of growing popcorn and food-grade corn for several snack food companies, Scott McPheeters of Gothenburg, NE, had a load of food...

GLEANER ROTOR UPGRADE 

GLEANER'S new Controlled Dynamic Flow (CDF) rotor improves crop flow with a design that uses just six threshing bars. While the six bars are sufficient...

BUYING IN BRAZIL 

By: by karen mcmahon

U.S. EQUIPMENT manufacturers dominate the Brazilian tractor and combine markets. First-quarter industry figures show AGCO's Massey Ferguson is number...

TAKE OUT THE TRASH 

An invention from two Iowa farmers, Britt Shelton and Darrel Hay, solves the problem of trash buildup on a cornhead. Called the trash reel, the device...

Small-grain combine 

By: by wayne wenzel

JOHN DEERE'S small-grain combine features a 660-mm high-inertia cylinder to provide a high level of initial separation, a design Deere has been using...

Farm show fever 

By: by Karen McMahon

Bumper crops buoyed the spirits of growers who filled the Farm Progress Show held this year near Alleman, IA, and the Ohio Farm Science Review, London, OH....

Claas 9 

By: by Wayne Wenzel

Giant Lexion combine defines new horsepower category....

AutoSteer for combines 

For farmers who already have an AutoFarm AutoSteer system on their tractor or sprayer, a new add-on kit is available that extends no-hands steering capabilities...

Combine tips from the pros 

By: by Jodie Wehrspann

On a hot July afternoon, custom harvester Kevin Neufeld leads a convoy of combines and a 15-person crew across Colorado on I-25. Neufeld and his crew...