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Independence Day is Everyday When You Farm

The love of farming is based in many truths. You know you can trust things you cannot control. You get great pleasure in helping grow food, fiber and feed for others. And you have a deep appreciation for the independence...

A Grand Entrance for Harvesting Innovations

There you are minding your own business, drinking a latte at a cafe, taking a photo at Palazzo Pisani Moretta when you see a combine floating down the canal next to you. This is precisely what happened to tourists and...

10 Years of Food Assurance in the UK

The Red Tractor symbol has become the face of food assurance in the UK. For their 10 Year celebration, a Massey Ferguson 5445 towed a six foot tall cake in the shape of the Red Tractor logo to the celebration...

AGCO US Manufacturing Plants – Come Take a Virtual Tour

Recently I had the pleasure of traveling to two of AGCO’s US Manufacturing Plants, the Jackson. Minnesota and Hesston, Kansas facilities. These plants manufacture a variety of farm equipment; RoGator and TerraGator application equipment, harvesting equipment, such as the Gleaner,...

Converting Cow Manure into Kilowatts

Converting farm waste into something useful and productive is nothing new (see Challenger’s biomass baler) but some researchers are getting very creative. HP is conducting research on using cow manure to power a new data center. The research paper was...

Gleaner Super7 Prototype Combine Testing

By Kevin BienAGCO Product Marketing Manager, Combines The Gleaner S7 prototype combine is currently on the Texas to the Dakotas wheat harvest run (see pictures). AGCO is using the black-painted S7 (nicknamed by some as “The Stealth”) machine to provide...

Massey Ferguson a Good Investment

Massey Ferguson UK honors a loyal customer: In 1970, Northern Irish farmer Johnny Loftus invested in a shiny new MF 135, and what an investment that was! He used it for the next forty years to run almost every errand...

Valtra Biogas Tractor

AGCO presents a new concept tractor model that runs on biogas. Valtra demonstrated the new engine technology for the first time in Sweden on 21 June. The development of the biogas tractor and generator demonstrates the desire of AGCO to...

Road Safety for Tractors

I am a very impatient driver and might not always stay as cool as I should when there is a hold up in traffic. Depending on where you live, you are likely to be either sharing the road with a...