John Deere Announces Major Product Launch at Commodity Classic

Mar 06, 2024

MOLINE, Ill., - , John Deere (NYSE: DE) continued its legacy of delivering high-quality, customer-focused solutions with one of its largest product launches in the company's 187-year history. At the Commodity Classic tradeshow in Houston, Texas, John Deere unveiled new cutting-edge equipment solutions for Model Year 2025, including:

Autonomy-ready high-horsepower 9RX series tractors, including an industry-leading 830 horsepower model;
C-Series air carts, providing new options for improved seeding-time productivity, quality, and accuracy;
Factory install of the AI-enabled See & Spray™ Premium weed sensing technology on Hagie STS sprayers; and
S7 Series combines, featuring new fuel-efficient engines, cutting edge automation features, and updated residue-handling, grain-handling, and loss-sensing systems.

"This is one of the largest product launches in our company's history, and it reflects John Deere's commitment to seeking input from our customers and delivering quality solutions that unlock new value for their operations," said Aaron Wetzel, Vice President of Production & Precision Agriculture Production Systems. "From new cab designs that improve operator comfort, to new engines that deliver higher power and greater fuel efficiency, and cutting-edge technologies that increase both productivity and sustainability, we've developed these solutions from the ground up to deliver the results and quality John Deere customers know and expect from their equipment."

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Video: Wheat Yields in USA and China Threatened by Heat Waves Breaking Enzymes

A new peer reviewed study looks at the generally unrecognized risk of heat waves surpassing the threshold for enzyme damage in wheat.

Most studies that look at crop failure in the main food growing regions (breadbaskets of the planet) look at temperatures and droughts in the historical records to assess present day risk. Since the climate system has changed, these historical based risk analysis studies underestimate the present-day risks.

What this new research study does is generate an ensemble of plausible scenarios for the present climate in terms of temperatures and precipitation, and looks at how many of these plausible scenarios exceed the enzyme-breaking temperature of 32.8 C for wheat, and exceed the high stress yield reducing temperature of 27.8 C for wheat. Also, the study considers the possibility of a compounded failure with heat waves in both regions simultaneously, this greatly reducing global wheat supply and causing severe shortages.

Results show that the likelihood (risk) of wheat crop failure with a one-in-hundred likelihood in 1981 has in today’s climate become increased by 16x in the USA winter wheat crop (to one-in-six) and by 6x in northeast China (to one-in-sixteen).

The risks determined in this new paper are much greater than that obtained in previous work that determines risk by analyzing historical climate patterns.

Clearly, since the climate system is rapidly changing, we cannot assume stationarity and calculate risk probabilities like we did traditionally before.

We are essentially on a new planet, with a new climate regime, and have to understand that everything is different now.