Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

A pair of private member’s bills that are supposed to ensure farmers have more than one option for repairing their own equipment and to ensure that different brands of parts and machines can work together received their final approval in the Senate on Oct. The only step left in the approval process for Bills. Read More

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 10, 2025

After some supercharged years, the used farm equipment market took a tumble in 2024 and farmers can expect to see a further correction in 2025. Thats the take from Greg Peterson, the man farm equipment buyers and sellers more commonly refer to as Machinery Pete.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Grains up with soybeans adding Brazil wx premium, corn follows and wheat saw corrective buying. DuWayne Bosse, Bolt Marketing, joins us from the tractor. Cattle see long funds selling on any strength, while hogs fall.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Niggs program launched in 2021 and is all about getting fit right on the farm by making use of tractor tires, grain bin stairs, and other readily available equipment. Imagine muscle strains and sprains from lifting heavy grain bags or reacting swiftly to animals.

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Tracks certainly dont eliminate compaction, and they usually cost substantially more than wheels, but research at The Ohio State University shows there are several specific applications where tracks offer a productivity or yield advantage in the old tracks-versus-wheels debate.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Brought back from near extinction by homesteaders who wanted a dual purpose for beef and dairy, this Irish heritage breed works well for Larson because of their smaller size and good beef quality when raised on grass without grain. Pete Larson on his tractor. And it just sounds counterintuitive, but it’s true,” he says.

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NASDA

AUGUST 28, 2023

I have been riding in the buddy seat of my dad’s tractor since I was born. I helped run the grain cart during harvest and worked cattle with my family, I took agricultural education classes throughout high school and competed in FFA events. I have always believed in the future of agriculture.

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Agribusiness Blog

JULY 30, 2023

To offset, Farmer Jones decides he wants to buy a new tractor (Note the use of the word “wants”) that costs $460,000. The existing tractor works but needs some repairs. Input pricing is less, but so is the price of grain and any excess working capital is often needed to pay those bills.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Over the next two decades, tractors, mechanical harvesters, and chemical herbicides made sharecropping obsoleteyou no longer needed much labor to farm cotton or grains. When he was fifteen, a tractor flipped over on his father and killed him. The farms had to be large, though, to pay off the machines. All his siblings left, too.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The grapes, grains, and other crops that become alcoholic beverages—and the production process itself—all have environmental footprints that can’t be ignored. Their signature vodka is made from carbohydrate food waste, so new grains aren’t grown. This means it’s even more important to uplift folks who are doing the right thing.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Right now, its too wet for us to get into the field with a tractor, she explained the night after a thunderstorm this summer. Created on Madagascar and practiced in about 60 countries today, SRI has been shown to increase grain yields, sometimes twofold. And growing rice with SRI can cut those emissions nearly in half.

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Agwired

JANUARY 16, 2025

It is labeled for use on soybeans, corn, cotton and potatoes as well as other cereal grains, brassicas, cucurbits and fiber type plants. sales of Ag tractors and combines fell in December 2024 compared to the year before. Sales of Ag tractors fell 11.3 percent while combine sales fell 26.4

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In the early 19th century, hay and grain would have still been hand cut by an army of people using scythes. There is a theory that the tractor was responsible for the rise of the middle class – as mechanisation freed up the workforce to get jobs in offices and factories. Machines replaced humans in the countryside a long time ago.

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Far Eastern Agriculture

AUGUST 22, 2024

New Holland Agriculture North America will debut a range of new equipment and technology offerings at the upcoming 2024 Farm Progress Show taking place from 27-29 August scheduled to take place in Boone, Iowa From combines to high-horsepower tractors to round balers, the show will display more than 15 pieces of equipment from New Holland.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

When protests reached Brussels—where the European Parliament was in session—European Union policy makers announced plans to cushion the blow from Ukraine grain imports and address bureaucratic red tape. Protesting farmers with their tractors rally in front of the Greek parliament in Athens on Feb.

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UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Single axle grain carts and large combines are the worst offenders, but manure tankers and larger tractors also easily exceed 10 tons/axle. Grain carts run in the previous track made by the combine. There is only enough corn in the grain cart to pay the driver’s salary for two months, but the compaction will last a lifetime.

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UnderstandingAg

JULY 16, 2023

For the past 40 years, our farm was in a hay, pasture and cereal grain rotation. For example, when it rains and when cattle don’t get moved soon enough and tractors and wagons leave ruts, or hay feeding in the fall/spring pugs up an area, all of which can cause soil damage. Screw ups happen.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Grover established a peach orchard in 1935, and cultivated grain and raised livestock until the late 1970s. When he was nine, he started trucking the tobacco, or driving the loaded tractor from the fields where the hands were harvesting the leaves up to the barns where they were flue cured. Across the road, peacocks shriek.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

But now, the position that these farmers find themselves in, is that they have become commodity slaves, encouraged by the supermarkets and food companies to produce the cheapest possible milk, beef, grain and vegetables. The retailers and food companies don’t even refer to buying crops anymore.

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Far Eastern Agriculture

MAY 7, 2024

Moreover, the presence of a steel guide on the underside of the curved chassis has a rounded shape, which makes manoeuvring easier, as there is more freedom of movement for the tractor unit without corner surfaces. No liquid escapes, as the body is completely sealed.

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Agribusiness Blog

JUNE 1, 2022

Let’s look at an example: John gifts a 2019 tractor to his daughter Ann. The original cost was $300,000 and it has been fully depreciated and there is still $100,000 of debt outstanding on the tractor that Ann assumes. He essentially sold the tractor to Ann for the amount of debt he no longer owes.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

I loved the process of moving the tractor, getting them food and water and raising them,” he says. Siewicki also seeds his pasture with annual grains to allow livestock to graze on them, which he says helps to offset the carbon emissions found in the normal feed supply chain. To his surprise, it was a lot of fun. “I

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Agribusiness Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Since September 2017 we’ve lived in a world where essentially 100% of all farm assets (equipment, trucks farm buildings, grain bins and tile) could be written off in full in the year of acquisition using either bonus depreciation or Section 179 or a combination of the two. Things have changed for 2023.

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Agribusiness Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Some producers just don’t want to donate grain and prefer cash…and sometimes so do their favorite charities. Instead of buying a tractor that he does not need to buy to reduce the tax burden, we spent money he was going to spend over time anyway and got a value of $.37

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Agwired

JUNE 19, 2024

sales of 4-Wheel-Drive tractors increased 9.4 year-to-date sales of 4-Wheel-Drive tractors are up 3.2 agriculture tractor sales dropped 11.5 Pearl millet, an annual grass used for grain and forage, can be a good food source for honey bees and hover flies, according to a recent study. The data also indicates U.S.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 13, 2023

From 2014 to 2021, Minnesota farmer James Wolf raised organic soybeans, corn and wheat, selling the grains to farmers across the midwest, both for seed and animal feed. Selling organic grain allowed Wolf to make more money than selling conventional grain—a lot more money. What happens if their manure comes under scrutiny?

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Agwired

AUGUST 2, 2024

Thirdly, it reflects Hinton’s desire to leave a legacy for tomorrows successors (consistent with the framed print on his home office wall); through the sharing of memories and stories of tractors long ago manufactured and used to farm with during a given era.”

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Agwired

AUGUST 16, 2023

As harvest begins across the country, the American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) reminds farmers about the importance of taking the appropriate precautions to ensure treated seed does not enter the grain supply. while total farm tractor unit sales in the U.S. percent compared to July 2022, while sales of tractors declined 5.2

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Flail mow and direct seed with a grain drill – This is the best method in a larger-scale commercial garden (1+ acre). However, most commercial market gardeners do not own or have access to a tractor driven no-till seeder with down pressure. Direct seeding provides the best seed-to-soil contact and opportunity for establishment.

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Agwired

JULY 19, 2023

Total farm tractor unit sales in the U.S. turned positive for the first time in 2023, led by continued strength in large tractors and combines according to the latest data from the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM). For small grain and canola producers, consistency and efficiency are keys to a successful harvest.

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Agwired

AUGUST 9, 2023

Bushel , an independently owned software company and leading provider of software technology for the agricultural supply chain, announces a new mobile app and website portal available to all producers selling grain to ADM. Today, cover crops are used on 15.4 million acres, which is only about 6% of U.S.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

In some conditions, it’s preferred because using a tractor to treat a field means that whatever organisms are infecting one section can travel on the tractor to another field. An air tractor, as it can be called, races a finger’s width above tassels, with veils of pesticide blooming behind. But the crop duster did.

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Trimble Agriculture

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Combined with a poor grain season overseas, farmers achieved an economic high they expected to last for years to come. Farmers are using GPS-guided tractors to plow fields and drones to precisely apply pesticides. This led to industry-wide expansion, inflated land prices, and high rates of borrowing.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

But working in a marsh is difficult, and farmers often had to wait for the water to freeze before bringing tractors out onto the ice to harvest. Over the years, the construction industry has used salt hay for insulation, livestock farmers use it for animal bedding, and berry growers mulch with it, since it is naturally free of weed seeds.

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Agwired

JULY 26, 2023

Yanmar America, a leading provider of tractors, UTVs, construction equipment and industrial equipment, has unveiled a new parts e-commerce platform , aimed at enhancing customer service.

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Trimble Agriculture

MAY 15, 2024

Farm Equipment Tax Exemption IRS Section 179 allows farmers to deduct the cost of agriculture-related assets like tractors and grain bins from their gross income, reducing federal tax payments. In 2023, farmers could deduct up to $1.16 million from their income.

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Hartwood Farm

MARCH 24, 2022

Those commitments could include a particular set of tractors and implements, or certain field layouts or greenhouses or barns or market delivery systems and so on. Even if big farmers get the highest commodity grain prices in ages, their input costs might turn their growing season into a financial train wreck.

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