AgrotechICAR's Central Institute for Women in Agriculture has given 85 women's groups in Puri district its pedal-operated coconut dehusker and trained them to use it, a tool designed to cut the strain and hand injuries of dehusking by hand.
AgribusinessThe US Department of Labor has approved national standards for the AED Foundation's Registered Apprenticeship Program, a training route for the technicians that farm and construction equipment dealers say they cannot find.
AgrotechSix models from 170 to 245hp pair AGCO Power's Core75 engine with a Dyna-VT CVT and will be the first tractors to leave the factory with PTx's FarmENGAGE operations software; deliveries start in spring 2027.
Daily lifeWith most of Michigan's corn and soybeans still in the field, the state Farm Bureau is reminding drivers and farmers to share rural roads safely, as October historically brings the second-highest number of crashes involving farm machinery.
The Jaipur company, whose machines cost Rs 10,000 to Rs 1 lakh, will expand manufacturing, move into southern India and develop power weeders and battery sprayers with IoT features.
CropsAn ICAR workshop at Punjab Agricultural University proposed CRM CONNECT to coordinate extension, machinery and industry as the state moves from cutting straw burning to using the 20 million tonnes of straw it produces.
AgrotechThe Hytrac research project, led by Vienna University of Technology with Steyr and other partners, is building a hydrogen-combustion tractor with an electric power-split transmission and on-farm hydrogen production and refuelling.
AgrotechCNH will start rolling out engine software in the fourth quarter of 2026, in line with updated US EPA guidance, so that operators get more time to fix emissions-system faults before an engine derate is triggered.
The Canadian-made DF5, first tested on an Agco header during Brazil's soybean harvest, is meant to cut header losses and feed combines more evenly.
AgrotechA World Agri-Tech panel in London said driverless tractors will spread only as fast as implements from different brands can work with them, with data ownership another hurdle.
AgribusinessScammers posing as farm and heavy equipment sellers have taken tens of thousands of dollars from farmers in several states, and the Federal Trade Commission has issued a consumer alert.
AgrotechThe Carbon Autonomy Ready programme sets specifications so implements can connect directly to Carbon's autonomous tractors; Great Plains' HT1100 Terra-Max tillage tool is the first.
AgrotechA new whitepaper from the Association of Equipment Manufacturers sorts the artificial intelligence in tractors, sprayers and other farm machines into assist, advise and act levels, and sets out what responsible deployment requires.
