One of the new utility tractors that John Deere has just launched is the 5D, 5E, 5E Limited and 5M Series. To learn more about it I spoke with Blake Barnes at one of our field stops during this week’s media event. Utility tractors ranging from 45 – 105 engine horsepower have many uses for property owners, commercial operators, governmental …
New Utility Tractors From John Deere
The first stop on our John Deere, Drive Green, media event was an introduction to the new utility tractors. Dan Pashke (in video, not this picture) gave us the rundown with the who/what/where/when and why. In this video clip you’ll also see some demonstrations of the machines. All the new utility tractors use the new John Deere name/numbering system. What’s …
Agri-Pulse Has an Open Mic
Sara Wyant and Stewart Doan at Agri-Pulse have started a new weekly audio interview program called Open Mic. Great idea since I know they talk with people “on the inside” a lot. Now if they’ll just add an rss feed for it then I can subscribe to it and get it on my computer/iPod automatically (podcast)! Challenging times call for …
A New Frontier From John Deere
One of our field stops at the John Deere Drive Green event was focused on the Frontier line of tractor attachments. In this video clip you’ll see our presenter tell us about Frontier and how John Deere acquired the line to allow them to provide more options to their customers. He also points out some of the new items they …
New John Deere Tractor Overview
I hope you enjoyed Cindy’s live webcast this morning from the AEM AgExecutive Forum in St. Louis. I’ve held off some posts from my location for that. She’s got recordings of Sec. Schafer’s speech and the panel discussion that followed on AGCONNECT 2010. So, let’s get on with stories from the John Deere, Drive Green event. The Director of Tactical …
New Mower Attachment From John Deere
At today’s John Deere product launch we went to classes on utility tractors. I think we had about 6 different stations where we could listen to presentations and then get to ride and drive on our own. One item that got a lot of attention today was the new easily detachable underbelly mowers for these utility tractors. After you drop …
Media Driving Green With John Deere
John Deere kicked off their Drive Green product launch today in Sarasota, FL. Here’s the happy crew of media who attended to see the latest in this “Year of the Utility Tractor” lineup. We’re getting ready to go to dinner but you can count on seeing and hearing a lot more from the field. I’ve got lots of good interviews …
John Deere Kicks Off Drive Green Event
We’re getting ready to “Drive Green” here in Sarasota, FL. Dozens of media representatives are gathered here to ride and drive some new John Deere tractors. The company announced their new line of utility tractors in the 5 and 6 Series. I’ll have pictures and video after we go out there later today. This morning at the registration table I …
New Agriblogging Software Coming Soon
I know that some of you agribloggers are using WordPress, our software of choice. If you’d like to see how to use it then you might want to head on over to YouTube to see some tutorials (or you can have the ZimmComm consultants training session). A new version of the best blogging software is due out next month and …
CFWF Farm Tour
Here’s some more information courtesy of Dan Danford, AdFarm, from the Canadian Farm Writer’s Federation conference. These are some pictures from Friday’s farm tour at the Canadian Farm Writer’s Federation Conference. Our first stop was Fanny Bay Oysters. They grow, process, market and distribute their own farmed shellfish. It was very interesting to learn how they actually seed the bay …