ATI Track Systems Chairman of the Board Ken Juncker introduces the new PowerFlex at the 2018 Farm Progress Show. Boasts over 7,000 inches on the ground, the PowerFlex is also the product is fully suspended courtesy of its exclusive TerraForm suspension system.
In this podcast, we examine how farmers are responding to $12 billion aid package introduced by the Trump Administration and Smart Ag's new autonomous technology aftermarket kit. We also cover Titan Machinery's solid second quarter gains, results from Farm Equipment's first ever Marketing Expenditures survey and what new Case IH Vice President of North America Scott Harris sees as priorities for the company, and it's customers.
Senior Sales Advisor Mike Cleveland discusses distribution news following Kubota's acquisition of Great Plains Manufacturing in 2016. Great Plains Manufacturing is now the exclusive distributor of Kubota's Kverneland brand in the U.S., which was attractive for the dry new seeder. As part of the agreement, Great Plains also showed the PW100 plow at its fall shows.
MDS Mfg. Co. had on display at the 2018 Farm Progress Show its 102-inch Intimidator bucket, which is made for JCB telehandlers equipped with a Q-Fit hookup. Gordy Brower, national sales manager with MDS Mfg., said the company now offers buckets with capacities of under 3 yards because smaller telehandlers and wheel loaders can't handle anything bigger than that. "We knew there was a void, and we had dealers and customers to have something smaller, and they wanted to have an MDS product," he says.
Trevor Jubenville, Product Manager for Versatile Ag shares his observations on shifting challenges and priorities he's heard from farmers and how that's led to innovations such as their new one pass tillage, high speed FURY.
Claas unveiled their new CONVIO FLEX draper at the 2018 Farm Progress Show in Boone, IA. The new draper features the unique auto flex function, allowing the header to optimize its cutting position as it travels across the field.
The recent partnership between Kinze and Degelman has yielded the first Farm Progress Show debut of the new hybrid-tillage machine, the Mach-Till. This high-speed disc tillage machine combines some of the benefits of conventional discs, vertical tillage and soil finishing products into one tool, integrating features of speed, good soil finish and uniform residue management.
President Nick Jensen runs through all of the improvements made to their new DiscCover Sealer. Taking to heart recommendations from customers, the new disc sealer takes what made the SEALPRO II successful and improves upon it.
At the Farm Progress Show in Boone, IA, Vermeer Product Manager Josh Vrieze shares some of the updates they've made to their new self-propelled baler. Additionally he shares how they're working with training local dealers and some of the company's plans for the future.
The main attraction at the AGCO tent at the Farm Progress Show 2018 was the new Fendt Ideal combine. AGCO first revealed the machine earlier this summer at the Canada Farm Progress Show in Regina, Sask., and had three on display in Boone, Iowa. Seven years in the making, the Ideal combine is the first “clean sheet” axial combine in three decades, meaning AGCO started its design from scratch, company officials said.
Built on 90 years of expertise, Yetter Farm Equipment leads the agriculture industry in designing effective and innovative equipment for residue management, seedbed preparation, precision fertilizer placement, harvest attachments, strip-tillage, and more.
Montag is the industry’s innovative leader for precise, accurate metering of fertilizer, seed and other nutrients. The Montag system has become the standard for deep banding of fertilizer. Montag is also pioneering the technology for cover crop seed application. The new Cover Crop+ is able to meter the smallest seed, and can be mounted to tillage implements, combines, plus Hagie sprayers and detasselers.
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