CrescoAg Corp. (CrescoAg) and Raytheon Co. (Raytheon) have entered into an exclusive agreement to develop a new generation of agricultural technologies and analytics designed to help agriculture producers increase productivity and manage their operations more efficiently.
DuPont Pioneer, the agricultural seed unit of DuPont, said Friday that it has aligned with farm machinery company Deere & Co in a race against rival Monsanto Co to provide farmers with enhanced "precision agriculture" analyses aimed at maximizing crop production (Reuters).
Jerkins Creative Consulting has been a leader in training equipment dealerships for 20 years and now they have brought their training to clients online through the new JCC On Line Learning Center.
In 2007, 56.6 million farmland acres were irrigated across the United States. About 16.6 percent of U.S. harvested cropland acres were irrigated, while only 1.2 percent of pastureland acres were irrigated. Nearly three-quarters of U.S. irrigated agriculture occurred in the 17 contiguous Western States, including 73 percent of harvested irrigated cropland and 94 percent of irrigated pastureland.
Yesterday, the Assn. of Equipment Manufacturers reported North American unit sales in October rose for all equipment classes. Row-crop tractor sales increased 34%, combines were up 40%, four-wheel drive tractors sales grew by 33%, small tractors sales rose 25% and utility tractors sales increased by 17%.
Four of the last six months (through September), dealers are reporting that their equipment suppliers are offering more incentives to move wholegoods and parts than they did during the previous year.
A few years ago, Elite Ag Solutions, in Warren, Ind., purchased a Kubota RTV and retrofitted the vehicle with a variety of Trimble's precision farming features, including swath control, variable rate application and auto-steer, to make it a mobile demonstration unit.
T-L Irrigation Co., manufacturer of hydrostatically powered pivot and linear irrigation systems, announces the Precision Link, the latest advancement in web based irrigation management from T-L's family of pivot management systems.
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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