Posts in Category 'North America'

High-Speed, Precision Planting with the White Planters 9800VE

The White Planters™ 9800VE with SpeedTube ensures accurate seed placement at high speeds.

If Earth Day is about sustainability, look no further than precision farming.

If ever there was a profession that tied someone’s livelihood, success, pride, and even tradition to their little piece of this Earth, it’s agriculture. Precision farming is contributing to environmental preservation in a variety of ways.

Game Changer

Unfortunately, the 2016 crop season in the Midwest and Southeast is likely to be remembered for a long time as the summer of dicamba drift damage.

Stover Makeover

Last fall, as soon as combines left the corn fields surrounding York, Nebraska, a veritable army of tractors pulling flail shredders and large square balers moved in for a highly coordinated second harvest. The race was on to get excess crop residue—corn stover—shredded, put in windrows, baled and stacked for transport...

Jump into Spring with the new edition of AGCO’s FarmLife magazine

It's here! The Spring 2017 issue of FarmLife, the AGCO magazine for the U.S. and Canada. FarmLife covers topics that include agriculture and homesteading, featuring stories about innovative farmers and their families, the rural lifestyle, best practices, equipment updates...

AGCO Tractors, Combines, Balers: Brutal Conditions, Amazing Tools

Jason Lynch and his father-in-law, Curtis Coombs, use their Hesston® by Massey Ferguson 2270XD to bale wheat straw in the hilly Palouse region of southern Washington. Extreme conditions in the Palouse aren’t limited to baling, and use of AGCO equipment has a growing fan base for its reliability and versatility.

Challenger Track Tractors: Nimble Workhorses

Organic California farmer Chris Bunn says his three Challenger track tractors float across his compaction-prone fields “with great comfort and speed like ships on the sea!”

AGWN Visits Heifer International Ranch

“AGCO’s vision is to help professional farmers feed the world which aligns with Heifer’s goal to end world hunger and poverty. We believe our affiliation with Heifer International will improve the lives of farmers in America and developing countries across the globe”, states Susanne.

Bean Boom Or Bust: Brazil’s Battle to Be Soybean King

Once upon a time, American soybean growers were largely unchallenged as the world’s top producers. In the 1960s, they controlled 80% of the global soybean market. Today, Brazil has closed the gap—combined, it and the U.S. are now responsible for...