Planter Farm equipment

Multiple choice  

By: by John Russnogle

If you want choices, Great Plains Manufacturing, Salina, KS, has you covered. The company will expand its tillage tool line this fall with three new machines. Its drill and planter lines will include new equipment next spring. In each case, buyers can custom-build a machine to suit their tastes...

Hooked on Smart 

By: By Jodie Wehrspann

Will Your next farm implement be smarter than you? Will it be a better driver? Maybe. Electronics are increasingly common on planters, sprayers and other...

New kids on the Block 

By: by Harlen Persinger

Settling for Average just doesn't fit in the farm equipment business anymore. As state-of-the-art facilities pop up in the countryside these days, companies...

Talk 

Crankshaft and balancing wheel I have an 870 Case tractor. It's been the perfect tractor for me. This fall the balancing wheel went out, which also damaged...

What's New From NFMS 

By: By Karen McMahon and Mike Boyatt

Heavy-duty chisel BRILLION REBUILT its popular coulter chisel and introduced it as the new Soil Builder II. It is equipped with large cutting coulters...

Air-delivered seed system 

Kinze's new 3660 SDS Twin-Line planter will be ready for planting in 2009. The planter features an air-delivery system for transferring seed from the central hopper to individual row units instead of a mechanical system...

Planter manager 

A planter operator now has more real-time planting information with Precision Plantingšs new 20/20 SeedSense system. SeedSense lets the operator see on-the-go population, singulation,...

Precision payoff 

By: By David Hest

The Promise of precision agriculture is paying off with new by-the-row planter technologies that allow farmers to cut seed costs 9 to 15%. And by-the-nozzle...

Tough enough for corn 

By: By Jodie Wehrspann

When Strip-Tillage first emerged as a method to conserve soil on Midwest farms, the setup was pretty simple. Mole knives named for their ability to form...

By-the-row savings 

By: By David Hest

Beginning in 2006, after using precision ag technologies on his farm for more than a decade, Mike Ellis hit precision pay dirt. That's when he began testing...

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