The automotive industry is plagued by a lack of electronics and is forced to reduce production. The constrained supply of electric components also affects the agricultural machinery industry.

CLAAS starts the collaboration with the Dutch start-up AgXeed BV and acquires the minority shares. This collaboration is aimed at developing and marketing robotic agricultural machinery .

It appears that agricultural equipment and tractor manufacturers are gearing up to meet increasing demand for electric drive and autonomous systems over the next decade.

Heavy does not always mean high pressure on the ground. Simon Schowalter, product marketing manager of large tractors at John Deere, explains why this is the case and how the 8RX tracked tractor makes use of it.

When we could travel without worrying about Covid-19, the transition of September into October each year was a fascinating time to fly over SA.

The dominant message about South Africa’s agriculture in the past few months has been of a thriving sector, having grown by 13.4% year on year in 2020 and expected to grow a further 7.6% in 2021.

The agricultural machinery market continues and is experiencing a period of great euphoria with a hypothesis of closure in 2021 of over 23,000 machines. Double-digit growth held back only by the supply problems of materials and raw materials.

American agriculture has made some great strides and advancements. Check out the timeline below of the agricultural machinery and technology to see how far we’ve really come within the industry.

South Africa's agricultural machinery market remained robust in the first four months of 2022.

What does a modern combine harvester and a Diplodocus have in common? One answer, it seems, may be their big footprints on the soil.

More and more industries are making use of the cheap-but-reliable technology offered by tablet computers and smartphones.

The American scientific journal PNAS has published an article dedicated to a theoretical study that compares the impact on the ground induced by the weight of modern tractors to that of dinosaurs that lived between 65 and one hundred million years ago.

It’s hard to imagine a European farm without a tractor. But a few generations ago, most farmers had never even seen one. Discover how tractors have already transformed the world and how they will change the future.

What will the tractor of 2030 look like?

Agriculture is a promising sector whose true potential lies completely untapped due to numerous challenges.