In this podcast, we report on the leadership change at Buhler Industries and provide a look at some of the damage caused by Hurricane Florence in North and South Carolina. In this week's Technology Corner segment, Jack Zemlicka takes a look at Redline Equipment's test plot in Gas City, Ind. Other topics include worldwide tractor sales for the first 8 months of the year, preliminary results to Ag Equipment Intelligence's 2019 Dealer Business Outlook & Trends survey and the competition in the combine market.
Trimble Ready is a new option for Lexion combines assembled in its Claas Omaha, Neb., facility. It provides the wiring infrastructure and mounts for Trimble’s TMX-2050 terminal running the Android operating system.
In the latest episode we take a look at a report that suggests combines appear to be in the best shape of large ag equipment, the transition to “digital agriculture,” Exel Industries acquisition of Equipment Technologies and Apache Sprayers, and the merger of the Ohio-Michigan Dealers Assn. and the Mid-America Equipment Retailers Assn.
While more dealers are expecting new equipment sales to be as good or better in 2016 than they were in 2015, 39.7% of dealers expecting flat equipment sales isn’t necessarily optimistic when sales are already low.
After announcing in May that it plans to spend $42 million to expand its Jackson, Minn., manufacturing plant where its high horsepower tractors are produced, AGCO continues to invest in its manufacturing facilities around the world. The latest spends come at its Fella brand equipment plant in Germany and its Hesston, Kan., factory.
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There was plenty of technology on display at the World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wis., a few weeks ago. Farm Equipment editor Mike Lessiter caught up with Monarch Tractor’s John Issacson and got his take on the top 5 applications in autonomy right now.