FarmLife is AGCO’s award-winning magazine and digital content program, serving the company’s customers in the U.S. and Canada with stories, videos, and more. Topics covered include agriculture and homesteading, featuring stories about farmers and their families, the rural lifestyle, as well as best practices and other advice readers can put to use in the field and at home. Please see below for blog articles written by our FarmLife authors, and visit myFarmLife.com for more.
Latest Posts from FarmLife
Still in its early stages in North America, the harvesting and processing industry for cellulosic ethanol now has something to show for years of research and planning in the form of three new cellulosic ethanol plants. Bill Levy, chief executive...
Craig Holm is always looking for some new practice or technology that can help on his farm, but only those that offer a solid return. One such leg up has been his Massey Ferguson® and other AGCO equipment. “They’re second...
Elroy Panbecker’s “bring it on” attitude toward the newest and best farming technology belies his 69 years. That’s why this veteran farmer has been using AGCO equipment for decades. Today’s horsepower stable includes a Gleaner® R65 combine, a Sunflower® 4412...
PacificAg operates the largest agricultural residue and forage harvesting business in the U.S., and also maintains the country’s largest fleet of biomass harvesting equipment. That equipment includes one of the largest collections of Hesston large square balers in North America....
This year the Massey Ferguson® DX100 series turns 50. Yet the real story is not so much the birthday. Instead, the kicker is that so many of these tractors are not just running after a half-century, but remain a critical...
Meeting increasingly stringent EPA standards can be difficult enough, without adding frequent maintenance. Fortunately, Massey Ferguson’s emissions system maintenance is practically trouble-free on all midsize and high-horsepower tractors, reducing downtime and expense, especially compared to competitive designs. “First of all,...
Craig Holm likes to mix things up on his farm in Southern Minnesota. Raising corn and beans on about 2,500 acres, he also runs a custom application business—last year spraying about 10,000 acres—and finishes about 9,000 hogs each year on...
Imagine taking a brand-new tractor, worth tens of thousands of dollars, and purposefully trying to break it. That’s what the folks at the AGCO manufacturing facility in Jackson, Minn., do just about every workday. It all happens at Jackson’s Quality...
Designed for durability and to deliver superior performance in the field, Genuine Sunflower Replacement Blades and Sweeps offer farmers a proven edge. Cutting through tough, hybrid crop residue and hard-packed soils, Sunflower vertical tillage tools lead the industry in innovation...
