In order to help farmers optimize their seed hybrids and increase their yields, Kinze® Manufacturing, Inc. announces the world’s first electric multi-hybrid concept planter. Multi-hybrid technology provides farmers with the ability to change the seed hybrid they are planting automatically as the planter moves through the field. Instead of selecting an average seed variety for use across an entire field, seed hybrids can be selected and automatically planted to suit different field management zones.

Mike Bland, Bethany, Illinois, strip-tiller, talks about the sidedress rig he modified into a strip-till rig. In the summer of 2013, he added a Montag dry box on an Elk Creek Caddie to make it a pull-type rig. He plans on running the rig in the field in the fall of 2013.

Trelleborg has received the Machine of the Year? Award 2014 for its new ProgressiveTraction technology. The ceremony was held at the leading agricultural exhibition, AGRITECHNICA 2013, in Hannover, Germany on Nov. 12, 2013.

Dusko Bruer, president of A-M-E Manufacturing in Eldora, Iowa, showcases the company's new 16-row, individual drive planter, modified with Raven Industries individual hydraulic drives to allow for individual row variable-rate seeding.

More than 100 units of the existing machine were sold in the first year, says the company, but the new version is said to be more versatile and easier to set up.

Vaderstad, a leading European agricultural equipment manufacturer from Sweden, has acquired the Canadian manufacturer Seed Hawk. The deal brings Vaderstad closer to the North American market and opens up new possibilities for both Seed Hawk and Vaderstad.

Orthman Manufacturing announced the appointment of Ron Cox as Product Specialist for the southern United States.

A strip till cultivator with versatility to operate in a range of UK arable farming situations was demonstrated by Kuhn Farm Machinery at Tillage-Live.

Dave Link, technical manager with Harvestec, introduces Harvestec's new 600 series of corn heads at the 2013 Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Ill. The line has a number of new features. The goals of the new features are to lower power consumption, increase efficiency, come in at a lighter weight, create a finer length of chop and to ensure easy maintenance.

Lee Kilpatrick, director of sales and marketing for BBI Spreaders, gives a brief overview of the product BBI showed at the 2013 Farm Progress Show. That included the BBI MagnaSpread Ultra, MagnaSpread 2, MagnaSpread 3 and the Task Command System.