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Written-Pole Electric Motors Provide 100 Horsepower Ratings on Single-Phase Utility Power

By Dan Crummett posted on August 31, 2018 | Posted in Product Innovations & Introductions, Niche Equipment Markets
The high cost of installing three-phase electrical service to rural areas, whether for irrigation pumps or grain-handling motors, may not be as necessary as commonly thought thanks to the maturing of an electrical-engineering concept developed over the past 25 years.
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Implement Guidance Gaining New Suitors

By Dan Crummett posted on March 17, 2018 | Posted in Precision Ag Sales & Service
Implement guidance (IG) technology is getting renewed favorable glances from a growing number of farmers struggling with glyphosate-resistant weeds, alternative herbicide regimes and EPA-mandated sprayer controls. Also, a growing demand for organic produce has broad-acre farmers in traditionally commodity-producing areas looking for more precision tracking in their cultivators as they drop herbicide use.
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Separating Alfalfa Leaves & Stems at Harvest

By Dan Crummett posted on October 14, 2017
Several years ago farm magazine articles were discussing alfalfa becoming part of a crop rotation in corn and soybean fields across the Midwest based on USDA-ARS research involving harvesting alfalfa leaves separately from stems. 
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Baler Classification System Compares ‘Apples to Apples’

By Dan Crummett posted on April 8, 2017 | Posted in Manufacturer News
The marketing and engineering staffs at AGCO spent the last year working together to take the “oranges” out of the “apple and oranges” choices customers make in buying square balers. The result is a classification system that gives customers an idea of a baler’s capabilities — regardless of what size bale they desire.
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