BKT has unveiled the automated concept tractor, featuring Escort’s first driverless tractor, exclusively fitted with BKT branded radial AGRIMAX tyres
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John Deere and Granular introduce new farm management tool

The Profit Maps tool helps farmers view average cost, revenue and profit map layers at the sub-field level in the John Deere Operations Centre. (Image source: John Deere)
John Deere and Granular have unveiled Profit Maps, a free tool to help farmers view average cost, revenue and profit map layers at the sub-field level
Evonik introduces new feed mill in Vietnam

The facility will produce mash as well as pelleted feed for research trials and is designed for handling various small batches. (Image source: Evonik)
Germany-based global provider in specialty chemicals Evonik and Vietnam’s Nong Lam University have developed a new state-of-the-art feed mill to produce pelleted trial feeds
Apple shows positive response to Agrothermal Systems® Technology: NDSU

The primary aim and benefit of Thermaculture is to reduce or eliminate insecticide and fungicides in food production. (Image source: ccharmon/Flickr)
A new study by the North Dakota State University (NDSU) has compared two years of fresh apples exposed to periodic Thermaculture heat-treatments with conventionally grown apples and concluded that heat-treatments create higher inducible levels of phenolic metabolites and related antioxidant activity
Case IH partners with Alliance Finance to boost farm efficiencies in Sri Lanka
The launch of Case IH JXT and Farmall JXM Series tractors was a highlight of the ceremony. (Image source: CNH)
Case IH, a brand of CNH Industrial, has appointed Alliance Finance Company PLC (AFC), as its official distributor in Sri Lanka