Machinery Guide Bonus

• Editor's Notebook
  It's fitting that I'm writing this letter from the field, while helping plant our Farm Journal Test Plots. The plots are a wonderful way to spend more time with machinery. (7/14/2008)

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• Souped Up Strip-Till
  It's the best of strip-till and variable-rate nitrogen all in one. Orthman Manufacturing's 1tRIPr preplant tillage tool combines strip-till soil management, precision nutrient placement and seedbed preparation in a single field pass. (7/14/2008)

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• Industry Briefs
  Read what's going on with CNH International, Deere and Company, Krause Corporation, Kuhn North America, Mahindra USA and McCormick International. (7/14/2008)

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• A Kit That Fits
  As auto-guidance technology advances and catches on, farmers who run older machines aren't being left in the dust. (7/14/2008)

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• Before You Buy
  Bob Johnson remembers when picking out a farm pickup was easy. “Where I came from in West Virginia, farmers with green equipment drove a Chevy. Guys who bled red drove Fords. It was simple,” Johnson says. (7/14/2008)

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• Round Bale Revolutions
  Round bales have polka-dotted hay fields for more than 30 years, and the machines that form these forage packages continue to evolve. (7/14/2008)

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• Self-Propelled Sprayer Boom
  The new kid on the block in farm country is the farmer-owned self-propelled sprayer. Sales of these machines are currently up by single-digit percentages. (7/14/2008)

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