• Prepping Your Tractor Now for the 2012 Growing Season
  Pro offers checklist to consider when preparing your tractor for springtime.
  
• Top 7 Machinery-Buying Trends
  High commodity prices have led to a spike in machinery buying.
  
• Keep Tires Turning...
  Eliminate downtime and your frustration by partnering with a reliable dealer.
  
• Tires or tracks?
  Find the best way to avoid soil compaction.
  
• Depreciation Tax Provisions That Benefit Farm and Ranch Businesses
  Planning to purchase equipment in the next five years? Tax provisions may benefit your business.
  
• Tire, Rim Compatibility is Key
  Mismatched tires and rims can cause a variety of problems ranging from air leaks to costly and potentially dangerous failures. Learn how to properly change the tire size on your equipment.
  
• Limiting Power Hop
  Learn how to limit power hop through proper weight, ballast and tire inflation pressures.
  
• Winterizing: A Modest Time Investment Pays Big Bucks
  A pro offers a winterizing checklist.
  
• 8 Tips from a Professional Buyer on How to Buy Used Equipment
  Guru offers a crash course on the eight things to look for before buying any used machine.
  
• Webinar: How New Depreciation Rules Will Impact Your Operations
  Experts offer advice on year-end tax planning.
  

• Video! Manufacturers Making Big Strides with Tier 4 Innovations
  Farm equipment manufacturers have been investing heavily in new technology aimed at helping them meet EPA emission standards. One of the approaches uses a compound called diesel exhaust fluid or DEF to reduce those.
  
• Maintenance of Interim Tier 4 Engines
  What are the new oil change intervals? Are engine oils backward compatible?
  
• Buying a Tractor with a Tier 4 Engine: 5 Questions to Ask
  Farmers should ask several questions when buying machinery equipped with a Tier 4-compliant engine, including what type of emissions control equipment it contains.
  

• Tractor Life On the Funny Farm
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• Latest Cartoon: Submit the winning caption and win a baseball cap.

• Tool Shed articles delve into farming's most perplexing problems and highlight product solutions to help you solve them. Check out the latest articles now!
  
  

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• ISOBUS update
  Getting different brands of farm implements and tractors to work with each other has long been a crapshoot on Midwest crop farms.
• Implement Braking: 7 Facts You Need to Know
  At agricultural machinery conferences across the country, engineers have been meeting to talk about implement braking.
• How to Buy Your Next Planter
  Growers are advised to do their homework before buying a new planter that won't work as well as the old model.
• Minnesota Farmer Changes His Farming with New Tillage Implement, Soil Warrior
  A different perspective gives grower nudge to changing his tillage implement.

• New Driverless Tractor, Grain Cart Systems Coming This Year
  See the new systems to be released.
• Putting the Brakes on the Move Toward Bigger
  Bigger may not always be better, and thanks to newer technology, we may start seeing a resurgence of smaller, more nimble, farm equipment.
• A Salute to Agricultural Innovation
  See the winners of the 2012 AE50 Awards and tell us what you'd rank as the most earth-shattering ag innovation in the past 20 years.
• New Tractor Cabs
  See a generation of cab creature comforts to make you forget you’re behind the wheel.
• It's 10 O'clock. Do You Know Where Your Tractor Is?
  Here is a look at the latest telematics systems on the market.
  
  Telematics can enable you to access real-time equipment location and current operations information with a smartphone or computer.
  
  Some advanced systems also relay application prescriptions and as-applied data to and from field equipment.
• 2011 Guide to New 150-Plus-HP Row-Crop Tractors
  Case IH, John Deere, and New Holland have launched new series of 150-plus-hp row-crop tractors for 2011, and Versatile and JCB have also come out with new, more powerful models.
• Using Precision Ag to Save Time and Money on Your Corn and Soybean Farm
  Remote sensing tools and variable rate applications are helping farmers apply 35 to 40 percent less nitrogen to their crops in Minnesota.

• Diesel Deposit Control Additives – You're Never Too Clean
  With fuel economy, power and emissions at stake, keeping fuel injectors clean is more important than ever, especially for today's newer, more complex equipment.
• Shift Up, Throttle Back
  Learn one operating procedure that can significantly reduce fuel costs, without spending a dime.
• Farmers Improving Fuel Efficiency with Tractor Maintenance
  Consistent maintenance of farm tractors keeps Iowa farming enterprises running smoothly in any kind of weather. A new publication explains how routine maintenance and small adjustments in day-to-day operations also improve fuel efficiency and total energy costs.
• A Little Effort Can Save A Lot Of Fuel For Tractor Operators
  Fuel economy is a topic at the top on most people's minds these days, and farmers are no different.
• How to Calculate Your Tractor's Fuel Efficiency
  University of Nebraska Tractor Testing Laboratory website contains a wealth of information on tractor performance and fuel efficiency.