Category: Highlight

Eima 2024, the event of innovation

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Furio Oldani 346,800 attendees, 63,100 of whom came from over 150 countries, gathered in Bologna between November 6 and 10 to admire, touch, and, in many cases, purchase over 60,000 products, including machinery and components showcased by more than 1,750 exhibitors. These certified figures confirm that the Bologna exposition of agricultural mechanics is not only a global benchmark event but also a key moment to reflect on potential technological advancements in agricultural mechanization, regardless of market conditions. The latter, in this case, were and still are not particularly promising due…

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Last Issue | December 2024

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The new December issue of Macchine Trattori offers 54 pages of reports relating to Eima 2024, the International Agricultural and Gardening Machinery Exhibition. The cover of the month is dedicated to the Weidemann “T6025” compact lift which, with the presence of the “Vertical Lift System”, facilitates the operator during lifting or lowering of loads. Among the lifts exhibited at Eima also the “Mini Agri-eSmart” by Dieci, a compact full electric telescopic lift that expands the Dieci offer with zero emissions. As for tractors, Kubota celebrated the 50th anniversary of the European division with the launch of…

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Kubota buys the start-up “Bloomfield Robotics”

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Through its US holding company, Kubota North America Corporation, the Kubota group has purchased the American start-up Bloomfield Robotics, specialized in the acquisition and processing of images using artificial intelligence software to determine optimal harvest times and provide forecasting services of surrender. The vision systems are not influenced by ambient light and acquisitions can also be carried out at high speed without penalizing the details of each plane and its geolocation. According to the company, the solution allows knowing the ripening data and harvest times of the various products, will…

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Kohler Energy changes name to “Rehlko”

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Kohler Company: A Global Leader in Diverse Industries. Kohler Company is a multinational corporation headquartered in the town of Kohler, Wisconsin, USA. It operates across a wide range of industrial and construction sectors through its various subsidiaries and dedicated enterprises. Among these is Kohler Energy, a subgroup specializing in solutions for energy generation, management, and storage, which includes the Engine division, renowned for its production of internal combustion engines. Last May, the American investment firm Platinum Equity acquired the entire Kohler Energy subgroup from Kohler Company to form an independent…

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John Deere “3350 Riso” model by Britains, a tribute to the past

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This model was born from the memory of the first tractor an ex-tractor operator from Siziano, near Pavia, set foot on, marking the beginning of a career that continues even decades later. “You never forget your first love,” says a popular adage, and like most sayings, it holds a grain of truth. This sentiment resonates in the story of a small John Deere “3350” rice field edition, commissioned by Walter Pettinari, a tractor operator from Siziano, to commemorate the machine that launched his career decades ago. Walter’s start was a…

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Eima 2024, technical news in the name of innovation

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According to Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter, innovation represents “the practical application of an invention or discovery.” Accepting this 1911 definition, innovation becomes inseparably linked to commercialization, generating benefits that, in turn, drive social progress. Strategic steps This implies that behind every innovation lies a long series of scientific, technological, organizational, financial, and commercial processes that collectively bring a new product, technology, or service to the market, making it accessible to end users. Based on this understanding, one can only appreciate the continuous encouragement of innovation by FederUnacoma, the organization representing…

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Caron “Ec70”, a jolt of energy

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Over the last five years, electrification processes in the field of agricultural mechanization in Europe have evolved rapidly. The technological progress achieved with the experience gained in the automotive sector, the growing attention towards the environmental sustainability of production cycles and the increasingly stringent regulations for the reduction of polluting emissions have in fact accelerated this path, giving impetus to new solutions which through different architectures, hybrid, plug-in and full electric, also promise to improve the efficiency of the machines and reduce management costs. Wide margins for growth This has…

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Tractor market, something is moving

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If it is true that numbers don’t lie, it seems that the tractor market crisis is slowly resolving. Compared to the terrible “minus 25.05%” at the end of March 2024, the registrations at the end of September have indeed recovered nearly ten points, closing at “minus 15.52%” with a trend of further improvement. This is also confirmed by the outlook of the European Agricultural Machinery Association, abbreviated as “CEMA.” Every month, they survey European entrepreneurs to assess their concerns and expectations, and in October, they noted a slight increase in…

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The third way of laser weeding

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The perennial conflict between chemical and mechanical weedkillers could see a third solution win. If on the one hand the increasingly strong European environmental pressure constantly reduces the available active ingredients and on the other mechanical interventions require repetitive steps which however do not always prove effective, it could be laser weeding that can bring agricultural entrepreneurs to agreement. At least that’s what the US start-up Carbon Robotics thinks, having designed and developed “LaserWeeder”, a weeding equipment operated on the basis of an artificial intelligence system which, through 42 high-resolution…

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Bad weather, lots of words but little money

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May 2023. Between the night of the third, Wednesday, and the fourth, Thursday, the Emilia-Romagna geographical areas of Faenza and Ravenna are hit by a series of flood events extraordinary in intensity and violence. Heavy and persistent rains give rise to flooding and overflows as well as landslides, all events which are then repeated on the 16th and 17th of the same month with even greater violence. In total, the two floods affected more than one hundred municipalities, caused around nine billion in damages and had a heavy impact on…

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