Articles Tagged with ''planter''

Great Plains' New Products Expand Reach Beyond Traditional Ag

Great Plains is introducing 14 new products this year, including new vertical tillage tools, stack-fold planters, five-section chisel plows, field cultivator air drills, rotary cutters and compact no-till seeders.
Great Plains is introducing 14 new products this year, including new vertical tillage tools, stack-fold planters, five-section chisel plows, field cultivator air drills, rotary cutters and compact no-till seeders.
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NDY Mfg. Introduces New Center Fill Ladder Extension for Planters

The new Center Fill Ladder Extension for John Deere planters is full collapsible, making it easy to access or fold away as needed.
New for 2016, NDY Mfg. has introduced the Center Fill Ladder Extension for John Deere planters. The ladder is fully collapsible, making it easy to access or fold away as needed, with multiple positions for when the planter is in different heights, from fully raised to fully lowered.
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Dan Crummett
Ahead of the Curve

Dynamic Pricing Will Change Ag Retail

We’ve heard for years that “information is power” and one needs to look no further than the travel industry to see the effects online commerce has had in the buying and selling of airline tickets and hotel room rentals. Very few people call a travel agent to take care of those things today, whereas 20 years ago, company or independent agents booked nearly all flights and a significant amount of lodging and rental car business.
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Dan Crummett
Ahead of the Curve

Ahead of the Curve: Dynamic Pricing Will Change Ag Retail

We’ve heard for years that “information is power” and one needs to look no further than the travel industry to see the effects online commerce has had in the buying and selling of airline tickets and hotel room rentals. Very few people call a travel agent to take care of those things today, whereas 20 years ago, company or independent agents booked nearly all flights and a significant amount of lodging and rental car business.
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Rear-Fold Planter

The Rear-Fold Planter and the Battle that Ensued

This chapter from Jon Kinzenbaw’s book, Fifty Years of Disruptive Innovation, shares his story behind John Deere’s effort to squeeze Kinze Manufacturing out of the planter building business.
In 1975, a farmer from southern Iowa stopped by my shop and commented that somebody should figure out how to fold a big planter horizontally to make it easy to move from field to field. At that time, twelve-row planters were being introduced, but they folded upward, which resulted in seed and insecticide being spilled from their hoppers.
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