Farm Equipment editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at various aspects of our great farm machinery industry. Here is our favorite content from the past week from across the web:
- Help Us Prepare for Precision Specialist Week
- D.A. Davidson: Farmers have plenty of cash to buy new equipment next year
- H&R Agri-Power Learns the Benefits of Tiling from Soil Max
- AGCO CEO Says Food Inflation is Here to Stay
- Autonomous Flex-Ro Robot Hits the Field in Nebraska
- Product Video of the Week: Copperhead Ag’s Sabertooth and Nutrimate
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Help Us Prepare for Precision Specialist Week
Dealers’ precision farming specialists are called upon day and night to help keep farms running, especially during the planting and harvesting. To shine the light on these hard-working and oftentimes overlooked individuals, Precision Farming Dealer is launching the first-ever Precision Specialist Week later this summer. Share the heroics of your precision greats here.
D.A. Davidson: Farmers have plenty of cash to buy new equipment next year
In this CNBC segment, Michael Shlisky, senior research analyst with D.A. Davidson, discusses Deere’s earnings as well as farm income, saying that while farm income is expected to be down it will still be the 4th highest of all time. That means farmers are going to have cash to spend at the end of the year, he says.
H&R Agri-Power Learns the Benefits of Tiling from Soil Max
The precision team at H&R Agri-Power learned about the benefits of tiling as well as the ins and outs of Soil Max’s tile plows.
AGCO CEO Says Food Inflation is Here to Stay
CEO Eric Hansotia of agriculture-machinery manufacturer AGCO told Mad Money’s Jim Cramer on Friday that elevated grain prices — and the high cost of food — will persist, even if Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ended tomorrow.
Autonomous Flex-Ro Robot Hits the Field in Nebraska
Santosh Pitla shows us the Flex-Ro robot in action for the first time. The associate professor of Machine Automation & Agricultural Robotics (MAARS) at the University of Nebraska is leading a team of plant scientists and biological systems engineers in the development of the autonomous machine. It’s a smaller sized tractor that has a variety of sensors to measure closer to ground level to take phenotyping measurements.
The future of farming is here.. There is something neat about #UGVs and #UAVs in the same footage, aerial footage of our #Flexro robot planting corn from a couple of weeks ago #AgTech #AgRobotics #MAARSLAB @UNL_AgResearch @UNL_IANR @UNL_BSE @abalabantaray3 pic.twitter.com/RMblgErj8T
— santosh pitla (@SantoshPitla) May 18, 2023
Product Video of the Week: Copperhead Ag’s Sabertooth and Nutrimate
For today’s product news, we want to show you Copperhead Ag’s Sabertooth and Nutrimate. Take a look and let us know your thoughts in the commenting field below.
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