Machinery Chatter

The SENSE project is a partnership of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension, the Nebraska Corn Board and Nebraska Natural Resource Districts, which focuses on crop canopy sensors directing variable-rate, in-season nitrogen application in corn.

Case IH is celebrating the 175th anniversary of when it was started as Machine Threshing Works in Racine, Wisconsin.

How does Yamaha's Kodiak 450 with 25-inch tires, 10 inches of ground clearance and a full-length skid plate, translate into the long days and nights of constant hazard and climatic extremes on the farm and ranch? Yamaha bets the answer will be "very well."

AGCO is using a new technology, Google Glass, in the manufacturing of farm equipment. It allows the company to become more efficient when assembling tractors and application equipment.

The advanced 4640 display from John Deere requires an equipment purchase and a software subscription.

Here are some of the high-tech innovative startups that are already helping farmers, ranchers and ag businesses.

Technical advances in agriculture in the last 100 years have influenced several major economy-wide changes, but farmers still find themselves facing consumers who don't understand that modern agriculture is a high-tech industry.

John Deere recently agreed to buy the Wirtgen Group, a privately held German company, that is described as the world's leader in road building equipment. The reported sales price: $5.2 billion.

The Great America Shop contest deadline has been extended to July 21.

The Progressive Farmer's Jim Patrico, who traveled to Cuba last fall, looks at what the Trump administration is saying about U.S. and Cuba and how this might affect agriculture in the two countries.

John Deere introduced a number of new products last week at its media days event in Moline, Illinois.

DTN Staff Reporter Russ Quinn shares a story about his late grandpa's last tractor, a John Deere 620.

Signs indicate that the farm equipment industry finally has steadied after a recent near freefall and is heading upward.

It's time to enter The Great American Shops contest!

Three-point hitches can be a mass of metal and hoses. Be careful how you connect them.

Bob Ratliff died recently at 85. He was the founder and driving force behind AGCO, one of the premier farm equipment manufacturers in the world. He also was an accomplished practitioner of a sometimes-risky business strategy -- growth by acquisition.

As part of our semi-annual Great American Shops contest, DTN/The Progressive Farmer is again looking for the best shops in America.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) Extension is offering training for young people set to operate farm machinery this summer.

Farming and ranching are in Nebraska's DNA and they play a large part in the new book "Nebraska: 150 Years Told Through 93 Counties."

Working from his more than century-old Three Canyon Farms outside Kendrick, Idaho, Robert Blair is a pioneer instrumental in launching the nation's agricultural unmanned aircraft scouting industry.