Trade Shows & Global News

Mahindra’s Farm Equipment Sector sold 33,622 new tractors in India during March 2023. Against the March 2022 sales with 28,112 units, this comes down to an increase of 20 percent. Sales for the full year to date including exports, ended up at 407,545 units or a 15 percent increase. The company never realized this resul...

New Holland Agriculture partnered with EFTA (Equity for Tanzania) for the acquisition of 200 tractors to assist the mechanization of smallholder farmers. A ground-breaking collaboration between the brand and the leasing company regulated by the Bank of Tanzania, with the mission of financing equipment without collateral ...

The Mitas Agriterra range of radial tyres for modern agricultural trailers, now includes two new sizes, the 620/40R22.5 and 620/75R26,  with the Agriterra 02 tread pattern. These are primarily designed for special agricultural machines and not exclusively for trailers. The impetus for both these new tyres is the demand ...

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TYRI has over 40 years of experience in the design and production of lighting. In recent years, the company ha...

The Krish-e Smart Kit (KSK) is an after-market smart device that provides farm equipment owners with detailed insights of their tractors and farm equipment. It works through GPS enabled time tracking and remote monitoring of various parameters from the comfort of a smart phone.

The Krish-e Smart Kit was developed b...

The total number of new tractors registered in Europe last year (includes UK) fell by 9.6% to around 161,000 (178,000+ in 2021). The three main markets of France, Germany and Italy were all affected.In the largest market of France, the drop in the number of registrations was limited to -1.4% (34,857 units in 2022/35,357 ...

Amazone says that the new AmaSpread 2 terminal provides users with simple menu navigation of the ZA-V Profis Control weigh cell fertiliser spreader.All spreading information is shown constantly on the 4.3-inch colour display, and all important functions, such as application rate and the position of the border spreading d...

The Claas Group shareholders’ committee has appointed Jan-Hendrik Mohr as the new CEO with effect from 1 April 2023. Incumbent CEO Thomas Böck decided to step down as CEO and to pursue new endeavors. Shareholders and the Group Executive Board have acknowledged this decision with deep regret. They were able to find an ...

AGCO brand “Precision Planting” won the Davidson Prize for its Radicle Agronomics solution for innovation and impact in agricultural systems. Radicle Agronomics provides professional growers with a fully automated soil laboratory and tools to make soil nutrient management more precise, effective, and efficient.

CNH Industrial has entered into an agreement to purchase Hemisphere GNSS (Hemisphere), a global leader in high-performance satellite positioning technology, currently owned by Unistrong, a company incorporated in the People’s Republic of China. Combined with the Raven brand’s capabilities, this development gives CNHi...

Arwel’s Agri Services has taken on the Fendt franchise in south west Wales. The new dealer will primarily cover Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, and Pembrokeshire.Based near Lampeter in mid-Wales, the family run business also sells Krone, MDE, TSG slurry equipment, Cross slurry tankers, and Stewart trailers in a traditiona...

Zuidberg Group of Companies has appointed Klaas Jan Bijker as its new Managing Director, effective from 20 February 2023. He succeeds Jeroen Zuidberg, who has decided to concentrate on Zuidberg’s long-term projects as a strategic advisor.

Jeroen Zuidberg: “Klaas Jan Bijker has held the position of Commercial Di...

With the world’s population expected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050, there will be a greater demand for food, which will drive the need for agriculture machinery. According to a study of Transparency Market Research (TMR), the global ag machinery market stood at US$ 132.3 billion in 2022 and is projected to reach US$ 219...

Titan Machinery Inc., a major network of full-service Case-IH and New Holland agricultural and construction equipment stores, reported satisfying financial results for the fiscal fourth quarter and full year ended January 31, 2023. Both revenues and profit increased significantly in the US, as well as on the internationa...

The Erhvervsinvest Group, which bought Bogballe in 2017, has now also acquired Bredal. The two well-known Danish fertiliser spreader manufacturers are to be merged.Bredal CEO Anders Bull Jensen and COO Torben Sørensen will become shareholders in the merged business and will continue in their current roles. The two men ...

Faresin Industries presents its new PF3 Leader 3-auger mixer wagon. The machine has been designed for large livestock farms from 1000 head upwards. A 3 vertical auger system with a unique mixing geometry, guarantees good feed structure.

Faresin has designed the machine with mixing tub volumes of 30 and 36 m3, from ...

The John Deere plant in Mannheim, Germany, celebrates production of its 2 millionth tractor. About 3,300 employees help produce 40,000 tractors annually, before these are exported all corners of the world. The plant is one of the most important employers in the city.

Mannheim is the city of inventors. The car, the ...

This 6250R is the two-millionth tractor produced at John Deere’s Mannheim plant in Germany. Wrapped in portrait photos of more than 300 employees, it will soon be on display at the John Deere Forum. Longer term, the most powerful model currently produced at the facility will join the one-millionth tractor, a 6400, in ...

The Italian tractor manufacturer showed its first 300hp tractor at last week’s Polish Agrotech farm machinery show. The 8 Series will be offered in two V-Shift models: the 8-270 (273hp) and 8-310 (313hp).Landini dealers and customers have requested a tractor with more power than the 7-230 for some time and we had expec...

The iconic Landini Landpower is back in Europe. The two Stage V models – 160 (155/165hp) and 180 (166/175hp) – are described as strong, reliable and reasonably priced.The Italian made range disappeared from Europe early 2015 (replaced by the four-pot 6L series), but Argo tractors continues to make Stage III six-cylin...

SimplEbale is an electronic aftermarket monitoring and control system that retrofits onto new and existing Massey Ferguson Hesston 1800 Series small square balers in North America. It simplifies the work required to make consistently high-quality hay for operators of all experience levels.

Balers upgraded with Simp...

Väderstad will expand its production facility in Väderstad, Sweden with another 12,600 square meters. The expansion provides additional surfaces for assembly and painting, with the aim of a production capacity of 10,000 tillage and seeding machines annually by 2028.

Väderstad has seen a strong increase in demand...

With the Puma 4.0, AVR introduced a modern 4-row self-propelled harvester. On their journey to further improve this Puma 4.0, the manufacturer realized a number of updates for the 2023 harvesting season.

At the end of 2022, AVR launched a major software upgrade of the ACC digging unit’s depth control mechanism. T...

Krone presents the GX general-purpose wagon also with rigid sides. Introduced for the 2022/23 season and configured as standard specification, rigid sides are now available alongside the existing hydraulic sides with telescoping extensions.

Launched in autumn 2021 for existing customers in the forage sector and new...