October is traditionally a good month for South African tractor sales as summer grain and oilseed farmers are typically preparing for the planting process.

With pressure building in Europe for a ban on glyphosate, equipment manufacturers are thinking ahead to assist farmers in removing weeds mechanically.

LEMKEN recently acquired the Dutch company Machinefabriek Steketee B.V. as a step in expanding its crop care product portfolio with implements for mechanical weed control and future-oriented camera-assisted machine control.

Seen for the first time in public at the AEA’s Tillage-Live 2018 event in September, John Deere’s new ProSeries opener for the 750A All-Till drill will be available from January 2019 and can be retrofitted to existing machines.

Designed to spread the weight of the forager, particularly when working with large maize headers, Claas has developed a tracked version of the Jaguar 960. 

The new Case IH Advanced Trailer Brake System represents a major advance in tractor safety and can now be specified as an option on Puma 185, 200, 220 and 240 CVX models.

The idea of utilizing all four wheels of a tractor to promote traction was not an entirely unknown concept when it popped into John Fitch’s brain as he plowed a field on his Mason County, Michigan, farm in 1910.