Posts in Category 'AGCO'

Cold Water, Hot Debate

There’s been considerable controversy over just how much of California’s freshwater the state’s agriculture industry actually uses. Is it 40%, 80% or somewhere in between? Here’s how the percentages are calculated, so you can decide for yourself. The amount of...

AGCO Testifies on Big Data in Agriculture

By Abby Burton AGCO was invited to testify in front of the House Agriculture Committee that took place October 28, 2015. In announcing the Full Committee public hearing, Big Data and Agriculture: Innovation and Implications, Chairman K. Michael Conaway explained...

Railroads and Ag: Commodities on the Line

Mark Watne, along with his family, produces a variety of crops on 6,000 acres near Velva, N.D. The land is on the edge of the Bakken Shale oil reserves, where hydraulic fracturing has made the state the second largest oil...

The FarmLife™ Maintenance Series

FarmLife, the AGCO-brand magazine, has compiled tips on farm machinery maintenance from the experts—AGCO customers, as well as dealership and corporate personnel. Two installments in the series—baler and tractor maintenance—are now available online at myFarmLife.com/maintenance. Advice includes information on lubricants,...

Cut ’Em Down, Swathers: High School Mascot Pays Tribute to AGCO

When the Hesston High football team storms the home field on Friday nights, a swather towers on the sidelines in all its big, red and intimidating glory. The swather mascot first came into play in 1970, says Clint Stoppel, athletic...

AGCO Visits Silicon Valley to Meet Innovators Helping to Feed the World

By Ben Craker A key aspect of the Fuse strategy is to seek out new and innovative technologies to integrate into machines.  AGCO understands how quickly new technologies change and develop. This means no one company will be able to...

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...

Water for a Thirsty, And Hungry, World

“I remember myself as a boy of 15 or 16,” says Ami Brochin, a farmer in Israel’s northern Negev desert. “We could plant only wheat because that was the only thing you could grow here with the rainfall. “With what...

When It Comes to Data, It’s Farmer’s Choice

There are two types of data generated by farm equipment: agronomic and machine. Each type details performance of various operations, yet, as with income and an automobile’s fuel efficiency, most of us are less willing to share one as opposed...