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Precision Ag News 11/7

Agwired

Tractors from iconic agriculture brands Case IH and STEYR have been honored with 2025 EIMA Tractor of the Year awards. This renewed collaboration underscores both companies’ commitment to responsible logistics through continuous supply chain optimization and innovation. food system.

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Women Innovators for Small Farm Technology

Caff

The unique design allows the rack to be transported by tractor, accommodating up to 1000 pounds of onions per rack tower. This platform aims to streamline logistics and communication within the growing contract grazing industry. Why is Cole Building It?

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Managing ‘Brown Gold:’ the Challenges—and Opportunities—of Spent Substrate

Civil Eats

And while each of those uses could provide revenue potential for mushroom farms, the expanding piles of spent substrate also represent a mounting logistical challenge. “If They showed up like two weeks later with a tractor and a big truck to load it in,” he said. It wasn’t a tough sell.

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Far Eastern Agriculture - Untitled Article

Far Eastern Agriculture

A stone guard is mounted on the front wall to protect the tractor unit from falling stones. The robustness of the KDS 255 is also evident in the scraper floor, which is equipped with V2 chain links and has an impressive breaking load of 50 tons per chain strand. The scraper floor bars are continuous across the entire width of the body.

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Large-Scale Ohio Research Project to Explore How Solar and Farming Can Co-Exist

Daily Yonder

Other questions include finding optimal grazing rates of sheep per acre, as well as other logistics. Tractors and More A third bucket of research questions under the Department of Energy grant will focus on farm equipment. Tractors and other farm vehicles need to fit between the rows with their attachments.

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Can a Farm Generate Solar Power and Blueberries at Once?

Daily Yonder

Sweetland opted for a new four-wheeler instead of a tractor, for example, and most work on the bushes is done by hand. At the end of the day, it’s not economical for a blueberry farmer to do dual-use at the moment because of the shading and all of these logistics,” Calderwood said. Still, there were bright spots among the findings.

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Nighttime Harvests Protect Farmworkers From Extreme Heat, but Bring Other Risks

Civil Eats

We’ve fabricated light poles on all of our fruit trailers and tractors that can illuminate four rows of vines each,” he says, “and then every crew member wears a headlamp.” Photo credit: Stolpman Vineyards What’s critical to making it all work, he adds, is lights. And it is why illumination standards are critical.”

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