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This roll up unites complimentary product portfolios and distribution channels to provide farmers with Smart Farming solutions and retrofit precision ag technologies, and OEMs with more factory fit options.

What’s the key to growing big yields? According to the reigning national corn yield contest champ, David Hula, you can’t have 300-bushel-per-acre yields if you don’t start with 300-bushel-per-acre stands.

A handful of planter manufacturer reps share several tips and lookouts to ensure the planter is working properly this spring.

John Deere, Kinze Manufacturing, and Ag Leader Technology announced a collaboration agreement that the companies say will make it easier to integrate each company’s equipment and technology solutions.

Minor space weather events have temporarily knocked out corrections signals over Canada and The Dakotas in the past. Would your farm be ready for a more severe outage?

Farm Journal's machinery and technology editor was on the ground in Louisville last week. Here’s a handful of the trends we saw down in Bourbon Country.

David Heublein won the conventional, non-irrigated category of the 2023 NCGA yield contest for the state. The amazing yield was grown with only one-third of the total rainfall his fields usually get in a growing season.

Precision Planting introduces farmers to its new CornerStone Planting System; announces Panorama is now available for purchase as well as additional product updates.

Upgrade kits featuring the latest precision ag technologies are available for sprayers, planters and combines.

Buhler Industries and ASKO Holding have announced that Başak Traktör has entered into an agreement to purchase all of the common shares of Buhler Industries owned by Combine Factory Rostselmash Ltd.

Linamar announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Bourgault Industries Ltd. of Saskatchewan to add to its offerings and advance its position as a short-line agriculture equipment manufacturer.

The software update is available to Ag Leader SteadySteer and SteerCommand Z2 users via a one-time unlock fee in the InCommand display.

John Deere's ExactShot, unveiled during CES, uses sensors and robotics to place starter fertilizer precisely onto seeds as they are planted. The company claims the technology comes with a fertilizer savings of up to 60%.

Starting in 1993, Precision Planting was led by founder Gregg Sauder. In 2012, the company went through a series of acquisitions (and one potential acquisition). With the launch of Radicle Agronomy, here's a look back.

Modern, high-tech planters can produce “picket fence” stands of corn with seedlings so uniform they look like they’ve been photocopied. But does precise planting pay?

New products are unlocking even more potential in what can be delivered in the planting pass.

Months of planning precede each planter pass on Joe Zumwalt’s farm. He knows his in-furrow program can set the stage for a healthy and high-yielding crop. 

A John Deere Model H tractor and Model 290 planter could plant 30 acres a day. And 70 years later, today’s 24-row planter can plant more than 45 acres per hour.

As the high-speed planter segment matures and expands, now might be the time to hone this technology on your farm. The first step is to understand its capabilities. 

This technology has the potential to redefine the application timeframe as well as level of precision of crop input products.

Whether it’s a tricky terrace, not-so-smooth no-till or other fields that bump and bang along the way, a new product from Schaffert Manufacturing and Graham Electric Planter promises to provide ease-of-use.

More lawsuits hit the ag industry. Deere and Company is suing Kinze and Ag Leader for alleged patent infringement concerning the company’s high-speed planter.

Here’s a rundown of the 200+ unit capacity bulk seed tenders marketed in the U.S.

"After this year there's probably a situation now where we can use this technology to push our planting window just a little bit into more marginal conditions," says Ken Ferrie.

This announcement comes one week after the founder and CEO of Exapta, Matt Hagny died in an accident.

Veris Technologies has introduced the world's first real-time sensor suite that measures four critical soil features while planting or tilling.

The Tempo L planter offers a unique feature in the marketplace, a new way of delivering seed into the seed furrow, using air pressure.

The Tempo L planter offers a unique feature in the marketplace, a new way of delivering seed into the seed furrow, using air pressure.

Kinze Manufacturing recently introduced its new 4700 planter with a new 20” model for narrow row operations.

To refine planter down pressure, Ag Leader has developed SureForce, a system with sensors on the gauge wheels of every row, reading wheel load 200 times per second.

Getting your planter ready for spring won’t change the price of corn, but it can mean you’ll harvest additional bushels next fall.

Seed tenders show popularity across the Corn Belt

Soygreen Granular is a new formulation joins the West Central Soygreen iron-chelated fertilizer line.

The acquisition will help complete Monsanto’s Integrated Farming System (IFS) platform.