Today’s machines rely heavily on software for electronic controls, digital data transfer and guidance. How much access should owners get to a machine CPU to tinker with those systems?

Is the right to repair farm equipment a cybersecurity problem?

Farm equipment brands should be proactive about allowing controlled CPU access, security expert says

With rising cybersecurity threats, farm machinery brands have to protect their systems, but farmers want more access to the cab computer and argue for the right to repair their own equipment.

Raven Cart Automation is the first semi-autonomous product to come out from CNH. It synchronizes tractor-pulled grain carts with combines on the go.

When can we expect a driverless combine?

There are prospects for a fully autonomous combine, but technology expert says other kinds of full-auto farm equipment will likely hit the market first

Fully autonomous combines are in development, but autonomy experts say that other types of farm equipment will likely go driverless first.


Farmers buying fewer combines

Farmers buying fewer combines

Industry says drooping combine sales are part of a natural cycle, others say poor crop prices may have something to do with it

North American Equipment DealersAssociation says drooping combine sales are part of a natural cycle, others say dimming farm financials may have something to do with it










The Horsch Solus 
SX concept could seed cereals and small oilseeds, along with corn and soybeans, 
at optimum row widths with one machine.  
PHOTOS: JOHN GREIG

Planter and seed drill join forces

Horsch has created a concept to bring the advantages of a planter to smaller-seeded crops

Is it a planter or a drill? If a concept machine created by Horsch eventually comes to the market, someone might have to invent a new category. “We’re trying to mix and trying to get the best of both worlds, which is a seed drill and a corn planter,” said Laurent Letzler, who manages Horsch