February 1, 2010
The Scoop
Buying time
Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, From Editor Karen McMahon
THE FARM equipment buying season is about to begin, and machinery companies hope for a good year. They just might get it. A John Deere executive recently...
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Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM
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Products
2010 tractor preview
Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, B Jodie Wehrspann
CASE IH STEIGER AND QUADTRAC SERIES Case IH upgraded its Steiger and Quadtrac series 4-wd tractors in 2008 with a model addition, the Steiger 535 Pro,...
Miller Wildcat 200
Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Kent Lock
HAVING MILLER Electric Manufacturing Company's Wildcat 200 on our grain and livestock farm for six months gave me the same feeling that I had upon using...
Nematode nemeses
Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Lynn Grooms
NEMATODES IN corn could soon be on the run with the commercialization of Syngenta's Avicta Complete Corn this spring and the expected registration of...
Liquid tool kit
Jan 25, 2010 2:23 PM
Liquid Wrench has added two new liquid tools and packaged six of its liquid lubricants and penetrates together to provide a complete kit for repairs...
Safener solutions
Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Rhonda Brooks
THE DAYS when corn growers would tolerate a little crop injury from herbicides in return for excellent weed control are long gone. Increased production...
Cover Story
All About AcreMax
Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Rhonda Brooks
OPTIMUM ACREMAX 1 may be the proverbial silver lining in 2010 for seed company giant Pioneer Hi-Bred, a subsidiary of DuPont. After weathering a tough...
Optimum GAT delayed
Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM
LAST DECEMBER, Pioneer Hi-Bred announced the delay of its Optimum GAT technology in corn and in soybeans for two very different reasons, according to...
Weather tightens 2010 seed production
Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Mark Moore
A PROTRACTED 2009 cropping season, coupled with an extended harvest, created some anxiety in the corn and soybean seed production sector. And although...
Technology
New from Agritechnica
Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Karen McMahon
Hydrogen tractor FOR THE first time, New Holland exhibited its futuristic tractor that is powered by hydrogen. The company first revealed a prototype...
Real-view guidance
Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By David Hest
TWO NEW guidance displays from TeeJet Technologies offer multiple video capabilities, including a guidance-over-video option that displays a real-time...
Mastering precision ag
Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Mark Moore
TODAY'S PRECISION agriculture equipment provides a wealth of data that can help drive a multitude of farm management decisions. Yet with the increased...
Hands-on help
Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM
FOR SOME producers, the best education is the hands-on approach. Precision ag suppliers are meeting their needs. Case IH personnel and dealers use precision...
Trends
Respect the refuge
Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Mark Moore
A WASHINGTON-BASED group has alerted the Environmental Protection Agency that Bt refuge compliance problems need to be addressed immediately. What the...
In demand
Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Peg Zenk
LAST FALL'S late harvest and short application season for anhydrous ammonia will push more nitrogen application to spring. According to one major ammonia...
Fewer fertilizer makers
Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Peg Zenk
WHAT A difference a decade has made in the fertilizer industry. U.S. production declined sharply in the middle of the 2000s, with several facilities being...
Major players in takeover attempt
Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM
CF Industries Inc. - Based in Deerfield, IL, it operates nitrogen fertilizer plants in Donaldsonville, LA, and Medicine Hat, AB, Canada; conducts phosphate...
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...
Weed-control shift
Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, Mark Moore
THE DELAYED 2009 corn and soybean harvest could have implications for weed-control programs this year. Producers in the Midwest raced to complete harvest,...
Good Buy
Good buy
Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM
Narrow footprint THE AGRO 6-liter tractor from Deutz-Fahr cuts a narrow path. The four-axle prototype is only 6 ft. (2 meters) wide so it can be driven...
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