Farm Progress Show 2016 Highlights and New Products.

Sep 04, 2016

By Joe Dales, Farms.com

The Farms.com team participated at the Farm Progress Show near Boone, Iowa this year and was impressed with many of the new products and services. The week started off with some threatening weather in Iowa but the last two days of the show were perfect, not too hot and nice sunny days. The farmer’s were in a decent mood, big corn and soybean crops coming but there was definitely a concerned feeling about the future business impact on everyone’s farms with low grain prices.

Here are a few highlights that had farmers talking.

1. Futuristic Case IH Autonomous Tractor Concept Unveiled.

Farmers and industry professionals flocked to the Case IH exhibit and expressed their thoughts and opinions on the new cabless, driverless Magnum concept tractor. An interesting new concept that illustrates some of the new technologies being incorporated into the farm machinery of the future.

New Tribine Harvester Introduced And Demonstrated.

One of the busiest exhibits was the Tribine display where many farmers got to see the bright orange TRIBINE Harvester in person.The new combination of combine and 1000 bushel grain cart was a popular discussion topic. We were able to do a video news interview with Ben Dillon the President of TRIBINE for an overview of the new machinery.

3. Farm Progress Show Corn Harvesting and Tillage Demonstrations.

Farmers love to watch all of the new combines, tractors, grain carts, tillage tools and grain head technologies in action.The weather cooperated on each day and while the corn could have used a few more weeks to fully dry down, the combines did a great job of harvesting.

Here is a play list of some of the Farm Progress Show corn harvest demonstrations and tillage demos.

New Machinery Product Introductions from John Deere, Case IH, AGCO, CLAAS and more.

The machinery companies often use the Farm Progress Show to launch new products and this year’s show did not disappoint.John Deere had a series of new product announcements, Case IH stopped the show with the Autonomous Tractor , AGCO unveiled the high horsepower Challenger 1000 tractor and CLAAS Xerion Series tractors were on display and in the Corn Harvest demonstrations.

New Products, Services and Innovations.

The Farms.com was able to interview a number of exhibitors who provided updates on many new seed, crop protection, software, unmanned aerial systems and services.The video interviews will be presented on Farms.com over the next few weeks.

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