Justin Prickel demonstrates the WeedSeeker 2 system’s ability to detect a weed during Agco’s 2024 Tech Day event near Salina, Kansas, in June. PTx Trimble is now part of a joint venture between Trimble and Agco. | Scott Garvey photo

WeedSeeker 2 offers sprayer retrofit

The three current green-on-green spot spray systems on the market now are only capable of functioning in corn, soybean and cotton crops. For most Prairie producers, that doesn’t fit their operations very well. A green-on-brown system, however, could offer significant reductions in herbicide use during pre-seeding and post-harvest burndowns. PTx Trimble’s WeedSeeker 2 system offers […] Read more


PTx Trimble’s new WM-FieldForm system allows farmers to complete drainage operations from initial planning and mapping right through to the implement control necessary to carry out drainage plans. | PTx Trimble photo

PTx Trimble introduces new technology

WM-FieldForm allows for mapping and implement control with new displays that have faster auto-design features

PTx Trimble, now a part of Agco, introduced a new digital system in mid-November for creating topographical field maps, drainage plans and the necessary software and hardware to control implements to carry out those plans. WM-FieldForm is capable of controlling a single scraper to shape field surfaces. It is the first water management system from […] Read more

Agco is selling the majority of its Grain and Protein business division, including its grain bin and handling equipment arm GSI, to American Industrial Partners for a reported US$700 million. | GSI photo

Agco strikes deal to sell grain bin firm GSI

Agco has completed a deal to sell the majority of its Grain and Protein business division, including its grain bin and handling equipment arm GSI, to American Industrial Partners for a reported US$700 million. The company says it plans to focus on precision agriculture products and machinery. ”The divestiture of Grain and Protein supports Agco’s […] Read more


AGCO has acquired 85 ownership of Trimble’s agricultural products line. Trimble products sold under this new joint venture will now get the brand name PTx Trimble. | Trimble/AGCO photo

PTx provides a blend of precision farming systems

The new joint Agco-Trimble venture combines digital technologies from the brands for both retrofit and OEM applications

As of early April there’s a new name on the precision farming landscape: PTx. It includes a joint Agco-Trimble venture that will take over Trimble’s existing agricultural products line as well as Agco’s JCA Technologies business under the newly named PTx Trimble brand. Agco has acquired an 85 per cent share in the joint venture, […] Read more