Joe Bassett, president of Dawn Equipment Co., highlights features of the company’s new Reflex X-Sense planter downforce system, which relies on magnetically charged latching to open and close two small valves.

Dawn Equipment recently unveiled new products for planters and drills for spring 2015 during a live broadcast, which can be viewed here.

Dawn Equipment, an Illinois-based manufacturer of products for precision farming and reduced tillage agriculture, is pleased to announce the formation of a new division: DawnBIOLOGIC.

Check out the latest planter and drill attachments from some of the industry's leading suppliers.

Joe Bassett, president of Dawn Equipment, gives an overview of the planter automation stand on display at the 2013 Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Ill.

Dawn Equipment, a Sycamore, Ill.-based manufacturer of actively controlled planter attachments, has entered into an agreement with 640 Labs, a Chicago-based agriculture analytics company and manufacturer of the 640 Drive data acquisition device, to provide farmers access to ground hardness data and machine control features of Dawn hydraulic actuation products on an open platform. Dawn user data is maintained in a private cloud and any third party use of their data requires them to specifically opt in to those services.

Argyle, Iowa, grower Brian Klemme began twin-row strip-tilling corn in the spring of 2009 because he wanted to increase plant populations and spacing within rows and, hopefully, increase yields.

Video describing the features of the exciting new Dawn M-Series closing system that combines modularity with other performance features.

Rodney Arthur explains how Dawn's Hydraulic Downforce Actuator works with the Foresight Ground Hardness Sensor on the RFX row unit. This unit currently has been released for Deere and Kinze. We caught up with Arthur in the Dawn booth at the 2012 Farm Progress Show.