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Each farm’s situation is different relating to equipment and they should make sure to use tools that measure equipment and profit objectively.
Machinery

When to buy new farm equipment

Costs compared to revenue should guide equipment decisions

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Intuition and personal experience have a role to play when considering major equipment purchases, but farms should strive to have a machinery investment strategy based on quantifiable metrics. That was […] Read more
Farm equipment makers say the next 20 years of innovation and change in machinery technology and design will be at least as dramatic as the last two decades and it will change farming forever.
Machinery

Debating the future of farm equipment

Some will be large, but there’s also a trend to smaller machines powered by renewable energy

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Glacier FarmMedia – Four leaders of major companies that sell farm equipment in North America came together for a panel discussion on what agriculture will look like in 20 years, […] Read more
Russia-based Cognitive Agro Pilot offers an autonomous combine navigation system that relies on a self-contained camera system rather than on GPS.
Machinery

Company uses AI to guide combines

Cognitive Agro Pilot relies more on sensing objects in the field instead of GPS to guide it

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Artificial intelligence systems introduced into combine threshing systems enable the machines to automatically self-adjust to minimize losses and improve grain quality without operator input. Cognitive Agro Pilot’s system differs from […] Read more