Tractors News Article
'Mahindra & Mahindra' wants to be the world's largest tractor maker by 2010.
Mahindra & Mahindra wants to help to till more fields all over
the world. That's because it wants to be the world's largest tractor
maker by 2010. It sold 85,000 tractors last year, making it the
fourth largest tractor maker. And it's moving ahead.
Keshub Mahindra, Chairman of M&M says, "We are moving forward in any
case ourselves technology-wise and market wise. For instance, we'll
be putting up a plant in Africa. It won't be an acquisition, but a
partnership."
Africa and China will be crucial realising M&M's dreams. It is
eyeing a second acquisition in China. That would help it to
strengthen its position in China, which uses a lakh geared tractors
a year.
And M&M is also considering new partnerships in its car business. It
has a joint venture with Renault and another with Navistar. And more
alliances may be on the way.
Even so, M&M's wasting no time in launching the Logan, which Keshub
Mahindra says, will be out in March. From tilling more fields to
driving more passengers, M&M can clearly see its road to globalise
its businesses. Source: moneycontrol.com
Yenisei-858 combine received golden medal at "Golden Autumn-2008" exibition
Rice harvester "Yenisei-858" was awarded with a golden medal and
a first-degree diploma at the big agricultural exhibition "Golden
Autumn-2008" in Moscow. Other novelties made by enterprises of OJSC
Agromashholding received high awards too.
Caterpillar tractor "VT-200D" with rubber reinforced caterpillar
tracks (made by OJSC Volgograd Tractor Plant) was awarded with a
golden medal and a first-degree diploma in the nomination "tractors
for different purposes". Engine "D-130T" made by Vladimir Engine
Tractor Plant received a silver medal and a second-degree diploma in
the nomination "engines and electric power installations".
"LTZ-140" tractor was awarded with a diploma of the general
information sponsor of the exhibition CJSC Krestianskie Vedomosti
Media Group in the nomination "Best agricultural innovation in
Russia".
OJSC Agromashholding was also awarded with Grand-Prix of the
exhibition "Golden Autumn-2006" in the nomination "for contribution
into the exhibition development". Rice harvester "Yenisei-858" with
rubber reinforced caterpillar tracks - a novelty of Krasnoyarsk
Combines Plant - received a golden medal and the first-degree
diploma in the nomination "combines". The upgraded model of
caterpillar combine "Yenisei-858" was first exhibited at "Golden
Autumn-2006" this year.
This combine was designed on the basis of "Yenisei-950" for use at
overwet soils, where wheeled combines cannot be used or their use is
restricted. In comparison with steel caterpillar tracks, rubber
reinforced ones are lighter, which supplies greater maneuverability
to the combine. Experts and guests of the exhibition assessed one
more advantage of the new harvester highly: double-drum threshing
device, which ensures careful threshing.
At present Krasnoyarsk Combines Plant is the main manufacturer of
rice harvesters in Russia. "In 2005 Agromashholding sent 108 rice
harvesters to Amur Territory, Primorski and Krasnodar Territories,
Rostov Territory and Kazakhstan. Practice shows that demand for this
harvester is growing constantly, and its technical characteristics
meet the requirements of our clients," President of OJSC
Agromashholding Natalia Partasova said at the exhibition opening,
"So in 2007 we are going to make and send more than 200 rice
harvesters to manufacturers."
Source: english newslab
John Deere has introduced a guidance solution
John Deere has introduced a guidance solution for older vehicles
and select model headers in the Green-Star AutoTrac Universal
Steering Kit.
"Now we're offering an automatic guidance solution for your
harvesting equipment," John Deere product development division
manager John Henchy said.
The AutoTrac Universal Steering Kit will make it possible to run
assisted-steering systems on John Deere and Case Axial Flow
combines, with additional brands being tested for approval.
This is a great way to improve driver operator effectiveness and
alertness during the long hot days of harvest.
"And at the same time improve hourly productivity by being able to
consistently use the full platform crop cutting capacity."
AutoTrac Universal Steering Kit is the mobile automatic guidance
solution from John Deere that functions on many different vehicle
platforms and with a choice of accuracy levels.
Customers can leverage the investment in AutoTrac across more
equipment in their fleet year around.
What's more, customers have the opportunity to increase the
productivity of their older equipment and even non-John Deere
equipment by incorporating the AutoTrac Universal Steering Kit into
their operation.
More than 300 models of tractors, sprayers, windrowers, combine
harvesters, and other vehicles are planned to be approved for Auto-Trac's
Universal Steering Kit in 2006.
For harvest, kits will be available for John Deere 9X00, 9X10, 9X50,
9X60 and Case Axial Flow models.
"A customer who makes an investment in AutoTrac today will be able
to use the GreenStar components and the AutoTrac activation for
future approved vehicles," Mr Henchy said.
Source: thewest.com.au
Tractor drivers have destroyed a unique
archaeological site
Tractor drivers of the agricultural producers` co-operative
Zavety Ilyicha have destroyed a unique
archaeological site Olenya Gora (Deer's mountain) in the Novgorod
Region. Shocked specialists noted that the drivers turned up the
soil on the territory where archaeological excavations were held and
inflicted irreparable damage to the occupation layer of the site.
At the present moment the unique settlement of the 14th century is
turned into plantings with ceramic fragments sticking out of the
soil here and there. Specialists are now thinking whether it's
possible to compensate the damage caused by the tractor drivers.
source: travel.km.ru
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