New 140,000-square-foot facility located in Junction City will manufacture tracks for agriculture applications.

With significant capacity for machine production and 5 acres for testing, this new facility is positioned to be the central campus for precision and autonomous agriculture innovation, training and service for Raven Canada.

Certified crop advisor Lance Klessig visits the Chatfield, Minn., farm of Mark and Mike Stokes on May 22, 2020, to see their cereal rye that was broadcast with the combine during harvest 2019.

Certified crop advisor Lance Klessig explains how Mark and Mike Stokes near Chatfield, Minn., seeded cereal rye on Oct. 16, 2020, with their combine by attaching a Gandy seed box.

DataConnect enables the exchange of essential machinery data among different platforms, allowing users to view all of their mixed-brand fleet information within the single data platform of their choice.

The two companies will develop synergies that many have anticipated since the 2016 purchase of ET by Exel Industries.

Today’s agricultural tires resemble their predecessors in that they are still round and mainly made of rubber. Maintaining a tread and staying inflated may have been enough for years, but modern tire design parameters accounting for soil compaction, improved traction, tread wear, sidewall strength at super-low inflation rates and, increasingly, environmental concerns have permanently changed the way farm equipment engages the soil.