Ricky Kratz, Slinger, Wis., strip-tiller, talks about his transition into strip-till. After several years of zone-tilling about 2,000 acres of corn with a three-coulter Rawson system, they found stress on the 12-row Kinze 2600 planter they were using was costing them time and yield potential.

Illinois strip-tiller Todd Mooberry demonstrates his strip-freshener invention

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.

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.

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. Multi-hybrid technology provides farmers with the ability to change the seed hybrid they are planting automatically as the planter moves through the field. Instead of selecting an average seed variety for use across an entire field, seed hybrids can be selected and automatically planted to suit different field management zones.

Mike Bland, Bethany, Illinois, strip-tiller, talks about the sidedress rig he modified into a strip-till rig. In the summer of 2013, he added a Montag dry box on an Elk Creek Caddie to make it a pull-type rig. He plans on running the rig in the field in the fall of 2013.

Trelleborg has received the Machine of the Year? Award 2014 for its new ProgressiveTraction technology. The ceremony was held at the leading agricultural exhibition, AGRITECHNICA 2013, in Hannover, Germany on Nov. 12, 2013.

Dusko Bruer, president of A-M-E Manufacturing in Eldora, Iowa, showcases the company's new 16-row, individual drive planter, modified with Raven Industries individual hydraulic drives to allow for individual row variable-rate seeding.

More than 100 units of the existing machine were sold in the first year, says the company, but the new version is said to be more versatile and easier to set up.