2010 National Farm Machinery Show Photo Album One of the best parts of the National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville, Ky. is the cutting-edge technology you see in just about every booth along the way. Companies obviously know this gathering is the perfect place to show off what they’ve got and time the release of many products to coincide with …
EZ-Sync from Trimble to Keep Producers & Offices Connected
2010 National Farm Machinery Show Photo Album There’s another innovation from Trimble making its debut at the National Farm Machinery Show here in Louisville, Ky. Trimble has sent out this press release introducing its EZ-Sync™ solution, a wireless data transfer capability that provides enhanced information management for growers and agribusinesses. While I was at the Trimble booth checking out the …
Trimble Shows EZ-Surface Software at NFMS
2010 National Farm Machinery Show Photo Album California-based Trimble, a technology company specializing in software that has, among others, applications for agriculture, construction and mapping, has introduced its EZ Surface Software to provide surface drainage analysis and design, especially for farmers and drainage contractors. This marks the first time in the industry where the complete survey, design, layout, machine control, …
Championship Tractor Pull at NFMS
2010 National Farm Machinery Show Photo Album One of the great things about the National Farm Machinery Show here in Louisville, Kentucky is that it is held in conjunction with the Championship Tractor Pull … the largest, oldest and most prestigious indoor tractor pull, according to Corinne Fetter, Director of Expositions for the Kentucky State Fair Board. I sat down …
New Holland Wins FinOvation Award at NFMS
2010 National Farm Machinery Show Photo Album Chalk up another innovation for our friends at New Holland! The company that is bringing you AgWired’s coverage of the 2010 National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville, Ky. is being recognized with Farm Industry News’ FinOvation Award for New Holland’s BB9000 Series large square balers at this year’s show. I caught up with …
What’s New at NFMS
2010 National Farm Machinery Show Photo Album Hello from the National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville, Kentucky! Cindy is off to Florida, and I’m going to be here at NFMS for a couple of days covering events. Just a few minutes after I got into the airport, I was able to find my way to the Louisville Convention and Expo …
Last Look at Farm Machinery Show
Here are a few parting shots and thoughts from the National Farm Machinery Show. First up, this cute little pup (I think his name was Mitchell) hopped up on the New Holland Boomer 8N for a great photo op. He did get tired of the attention pretty quickly, but not before his owners and several by-standers snapped him sitting in …
John Deere Has New Names and Numbers
Katie Sheets is a John Deere marketing representative out of the Waterloo, IA factory and she has been at the National Farm Machinery Show this week introducing a brand new tractor name and numbering system. “We have extended this tractor line up from two tractors to four tractors,” Katie told me. “The one we are standing in front of a …
Farm Machinery Show Tweet Up
Several Twitter-heads met up in the media room at the National Farm Machinery Show on Thursday for a Tweet Up. Among those in the photo – the folks from ABN, John Blue with Truffle, Susan Crowell with Farm and Dairy, Julie from Purdue and Dave Russell with Brownfield Network. I know that sooner or later I will become Twitter savvy …
FinOvation Awards
Farm Industry News presented their 2008 FinOvation Awards Thursday night at the National Farm Machinery Show. The awards went to the 16 most innovative products coming to the market, based on reader interest. Two of this year’s awards went to the two company partners who sponsored coverage of the NFMS on Agwired this week. Katie Sheets with John Deere picked …