In order to help farmers optimize their seed hybrids and increase their yields, Kinze Manufacturing, Inc. announces the world’s first electric multi-hybrid concept planter.
Kinze Manufacturing opened its new innovation center that to serve as a destination for customers and dealers, and showcase major agricultural inventions by Kinze founder and president Jon Kinzenbaw and those made by Kinze engineers.
From seed tubes and seed meters to ground sensors, new equipment coming on the scene can help no-tillers achieve more consistent stands and raise planting efficiency and yields.
The 2013 planting season will bring some innovations to no-till fields that promise to improve seed depth and spacing, and dramatically improve planting speed.
For the first time, farmers took the control panel and showcased Kinze Manufacturing's autonomous row-crop harvest system during a recent demonstration in Monmouth, Ill.
Efficiency is key when it comes to harvest, and this has become even more important in recent years as farm sizes increase yet the amount of time to harvest remains the same.
Too much water can keep planters and combines out of the field, leech away nutrients and drown crops, yet farmers still need it to grow crops. The trick, strip-tiller Scott Davidson says, is to manage moisture where you can and avoid planting when conditions aren’t right.
Yield data collected from field trials shows the value oilseed radishes hold as a late-season cover crop after winter wheat or following corn-silage harvest.
“We knew it was coming, and here it is,” said Clark Stoller while standing in front of Kinze Manufacturing’s Product Center during its Dealer Days event in Williamsburg, Iowa, on July 29.
The Hula family no-tills 5,000 acres of corn, soybeans, wheat, barley and oats in four counties surrounding Charles City, Va. The 100% no-till operation is located along the banks of the James River, which flows into Chesapeake Bay where nitrogen runoff is becoming a major concern.
Moving away from Roundup Ready soybeans allows Carrol Wyss the opportunity to earn a few extra dollars while rotating chemistries in his corn-soybean rotation.
When the oppertunity presented itself, Carrol Wyss went after a new market to make a few extra dollars. What he also found was that the changes he would need to make to control weeds were probably better for his farm.
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Franck Groeneweg, who no-tills a variety of crops on more than 12,000 acres near Three Forks, Mont., shares how his massive Johnson-Su bioreactor system allows him to apply compost extract in furrow during planting season.
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