Good safety habits are vital for anyone who operates a combine, corn picker or other grain harvesting machine. Failure to observe safety practices can be fatal! However, constant alertness is also ...

The 8R/8RX series delivers up to 540 HP for added power and maneuverability. New planter enhancements improve seed placement ...

An innovative project to develop a networked system with sensors that would enable harvest machinery to automatically recognize its surroundings and react to changes was started in July 2014 and ran ...

Tractors and combine harvesters are frequently operated on difficult terrain. Crops such as canola and corn grow at different densities; the field is sometimes muddy and is rocky at other times; and ...

Most farmers are happy if they can average 1,000 acres of harvested soybeans for every 100 hours they put on their combine’s hour meter. Chris Cochran is proud it took only 200 hours to harvest 250 ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A crop field during harvest in KELOLAND could contain about $1 million worth of equipment. Today’s modern combine can cost about $600,000, said Nic Uilk, an precision ...

By the 1950s, the self-propelled combine harvester began gaining traction. Even so, many farmers still picked ear corn, stored it in cribs and processed it through portable belt-driven shellers. The ...

There are few machine and model updates for this year’s Ultimate Guide to combine harvesters – but there are some subtle changes to the tables themselves to make some of the detail more accessible.

A farmer in Shandong province uses a China-made combine to harvest wheat. Domestic manufacturers face stiff competition from state-of-the-art foreign machinery. Zhang Qingmin / for China Daily Though ...

If a tractor married a tank, the offspring would look something like a combine. A king among farm machines, this giant harvester is in its busiest season as grain farmers around the state use them to ...