Harvesting

Get maintenance and adjustment tips for minimizing harvest losses and damage. Learn about the latest harvest equipment, including combines, grain carts, and headers.

Pre-harvest equipment inspection checklist

Follow a harvest equipment checklist to ensure everything is in working order before the combines roll.

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Go over this pre-harvest equipment checklist now

Print this harvesting equipment checklist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison for each piece of machinery and make sure everything is in order before the combines roll.

A Class combine harvesting soybeans.

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It’s a sellers’ market for like-new combines

This is the time of year used combine prices are “vigorous,” at best.

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Ageless Iron

The genius of a farm boy

By Ageless Iron

How the Model T and the legendary Fordson tractor came to be is testimony to a boy who loved mechanics but loathed labor-intensive chores.

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Farmland

5 ways the land remains

By Farmland

Land defines the shape of your farm, it is the well of fertility that produces your crops and livestock, and it is the foundation of your family’s future.

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Women in Agriculture

Q&A: Katherine Marcano-Bell, Dominican Republic native and Iowa farmer

By Women in Agriculture

Katherine Marcano-Bell initially worked off the farm but now farms with her husband, Brandon, and their two sons near Keota, Iowa.

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Claas announces new tractor and combine for 2023

Claas has announced the Axion 900TT with its Terra Trac technology, as well as a new Trion combine for small- to mid-size operations.

The Claas Axion 900 TT tractor in lime green with orange wheels. It has the Terra Trac and is pulling an implement.

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How to prevent combine fires during harvest

A $20 million problem resides in combine engine compartments, warns John Shutske of the University of Wisconsin.

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6 measures for preventing combine fires

Most combine fires start in the engine compartment but can be avoidable with preventive measures.

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Tractor sales continue steady growth in January

2WD tractors led the boost in sales for the month.

A New Holland combine unloads into a Kinze grain cart.

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Tractor and combine sales up double digits in 2021

Nearly 360,000 total tractors and combines were sold from dealer lots in 2021 in North America.

A gray combine unloads corn on the go into a red wagon pulled by a blue tractor at harvest

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Case IH partners with MacDon to co-produce draper headers

The new line of co-branded draper headers will be available to order at Case IH dealers starting early 2022.

Red Case IH combines driving through wheat field at midday.

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News News

Dairy Business Builder grant applications now open to dairy farmers in 11 states

Evening Edition | Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Harvest finally begins in the last 3 corn growing states

‘Very high’ crop fire danger for northwest Iowa

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