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Global greetings from Crop Tour 2016

By Darren Goebel Greetings from Crop Tour 2016! Crop Tour is an initiative at AGCO in which we are gathering information throughout the growing season and demonstrating how different variables that farmers face every year can impact overall yield potential....

Vision of the Future event at the AGCO Future Farm in Zambia – A youth perspective

By Nyasha Mudukuti, AGCO Africa Ambassador 2016 Under the theme “Vision of the Future” AGCO held a farm mechanisation event between the 6th and 8th of April 2016 at its Future Farm in Zambia. l had the opportunity to take...

AGCO Planting Options Offer Speed and Accuracy

Most farmers view seeding as the most important task they complete each year. With few exceptions, the old axiom, “How you start is how you’ll end,”   holds true in crop production. If seed is not planted at a uniform depth,...

Agro-Brief: Creating Performance Seedbeds

Replace worn sweeps, blades, and harrows Level tillage tools Set working depths Monitor speed Avoid Compaction Developing a good seedbed is important to get the crops off to a good start; yet often overlooked or difficult to obtain. Seedbeds need...

Agro-Brief: Nutrient Management – Banding

By: Darren Goebel, Director – Global Commercial Crop Care  Improve Farm Profitability Reduce Nutrient Losses Improve Nutrient Use Efficiency Increase Yield Reduce Nutrient Stratification Discussion: Growers are always looking for ways to improve farm profits, even more so in a down...

Historic 100,000th Windrower Rolled Off Production Line in Hesston, Kansas

Hesston by Massey Ferguson® unveiled its historic 100,000th windrower on Tuesday, March 29, 2016, in the midst of the 70th anniversary of Hesston and 60th anniversary of the self-propelled windrower celebration at the Hesston manufacturing, in Hesston, Kansas. The 70-year-old Hesston...

AGCO AFRICA SUMMIT 2016

By Nyasha Mudukuti, AGCO Africa Ambassador 2016 ‘Okay, the mic is set Nyasha, are you ready?’…. l looked at the AGCO team and simply nodded, l could feel my adrenaline level rising up. Just across me stood Jean Kaahwa, AGCO...

AGCO Training Centre Completed

AGCO Africa and Middle East Management team celebrated the handing over of the keys to the eagerly anticipated AGCO Future Farm Africa mechanization training centre in a ceremony with local staff in Lusaka last week. “AGCO’s new state-of-the-art regional mechanization...

AGCO Instrumental in Creating “Chair of Agro-Machinery” at LaSalle Beauvais Campus

There is broad consensus about the growing demand for food and feed over the next 50 years. Along with that comes the realization and responsibility of sustainable agricultural production. Picardie is a very progressive region of France with a vast...