Battery tractors clear a full day of light fieldwork, and stop dead at tillage
Eleven electric utility tractors averaged 7.2 working hours mowing and loading, but managed 2.4 hours pulling a disc.
Hannah Greer6 min read
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Brightwater puts a 48-volt motor on the T400 and claims a tractor that never stalls a PTO
The hybrid row-crop tractor keeps 540 PTO speed through load spikes by filling torque gaps from a battery instead of downshifting.
Hannah Greer6 min read
Used tractor values slip for a third straight month as 2021 trade-ins hit the market
Auction data shows 200-to-300-horsepower machines down 7% year over year, while low-hour compact tractors hold their price.
Marcus Bell5 min read
Kestrel's CT35 compact tractor ships with a loader that comes off in under a minute
A single-lever park stand and hydraulic quick-couplers target buyers who swap between loader work and mowing several times a week.
Owen Park4 min read
Orvand's driverless orchard tractor clears its first season without a safety driver
Nine machines worked 1,400 hours between tree rows in California and Washington with a remote supervisor watching four at a time.
Priya Raman6 min read
Halloran puts the load chart on the boom screen and ties it to the attachment
The telehandler reads an attachment's ID chip and redraws its safe-load envelope automatically, instead of trusting a laminated card in the cab.
Luis Ortega4 min read
Northrake's combine listens to its own threshing drum to cut grain loss
An acoustic sensor in the concave distinguishes cracked kernels from clean threshing and trims rotor speed before the loss monitor notices.
Hannah Greer5 min read
Corran's short-tail 13-tonne excavator trades counterweight for a wider undercarriage
The CX130 keeps full lift capacity over the side by widening its tracks rather than hanging more steel off the back.
Dana Whitlock5 min read
Agronomists push back on heavy tractors as compaction data catches up with horsepower
Three multi-year trials put yield losses from subsoil compaction at 3% to 9%, and the fix is mostly ballast and tyre pressure, not smaller machines.
Owen Park7 min read
Tanberg's 240-tonne haul truck weighs its load through the suspension struts
Strut pressure sensing replaces a separate weighbridge pass and flags uneven loading before the truck leaves the shovel.
Priya Raman5 min read
Electric wheel loaders are cheap to run and expensive to plug in, fleet data shows
Energy costs land 40% to 60% below diesel, but depot upgrades are adding six-figure line items that nobody budgeted for.
Marcus Bell6 min read
Tractor parts lead times are back to normal — except for electronics
A dealer survey puts most filter and driveline orders at next-day, while display modules and controllers still run four to nine weeks.
Luis Ortega4 min read
Vossmark's pulse-width sprayer holds droplet size across a 12 km/h speed swing
Individual nozzle pulsing lets the boom keep rate and droplet spectrum steady through turns, where drift complaints usually start.
Hannah Greer5 min read
Pellon's lithium forklifts drop the battery room, and warehouses are redesigning around it
Opportunity charging during breaks removes the change-out bay, but only if the chargers sit where drivers already stop.
Owen Park5 min read
Attachment makers agree on a shared hydraulic flow label after a decade of guesswork
A voluntary three-tier marking scheme tells operators at a glance whether a mulcher will actually run on the loader they rented.
Dana Whitlock4 min read
Tractor cab visibility rules face their first rewrite since mirrors were the answer
A proposed revision would credit camera systems toward the blind-spot requirement and force a standard test for what the operator can actually see.
Priya Raman6 min read
Aldersteel's underground loader runs three levels deep without a line of sight
Mesh-networked LHDs now tram, dump, and return autonomously between draw points, with operators only loading the bucket.
Marcus Bell5 min read
Ridgeline's tracked grain cart spreads 1,200 bushels over four times the footprint
A wider track conversion cuts peak ground pressure to 9 psi, targeting the wet-harvest ruts that cost yield the following spring.
Owen Park4 min read
Delgrove's grader holds grade from a single base station and no cab operator input
Factory-integrated 3D control takes the blade off the operator's hands entirely on finish passes, with manual override on the joystick.
Dana Whitlock5 min read
Rental houses add tractors as contractors stop buying for one job
Utility tractor rental rates held flat through autumn while fleet counts rose 14%, a rare combination that points to real new demand.
Luis Ortega4 min read
Maddox's WL50 wheel loader learns to fill its own bucket
An automatic bucket-fill mode reads rimpull and lift pressure to load a full bucket on every pass, whoever is in the seat.
Luis Ortega5 min read
Used equipment auction prices level off after two years of decline
Third-quarter results suggest the used market has found a floor, with late-model excavators and loaders holding value best.
Marcus Bell4 min read
Corran's new 22-tonne excavator trims fuel burn 18% with a pump that listens to the bucket
The CX220 replaces a fixed hydraulic map with a load-sensing controller that predicts demand a fraction of a second before the operator asks for it.
Dana Whitlock6 min read
Autonomous rollers complete their first highway resurfacing job with no operator in the seat
Two driverless compactors followed a paver across 14 lane-kilometres, hitting density targets on every pass logged by the state inspector.
Dana Whitlock5 min read
Kestrel Lift pushes its lithium forklift line to 8-tonne capacity
The new E80 targets steel, timber, and beverage yards that have held on to diesel trucks because nothing electric could lift enough.
Owen Park4 min read
Compact track loader orders climb as rental fleets refresh ahead of 2027 emissions rules
Dealers report order books up by double digits as rental houses retire older machines before stricter engine requirements take effect.
Luis Ortega4 min read
Brightwater's 600-hp tractor brings row-by-row seed control to 60-foot planters
The T600 pairs a new continuously variable transmission with an ISOBUS controller fast enough to shut off individual rows at planting speed.
Hannah Greer5 min read
Oxbow begins trials of a 240-tonne haul truck running on trolley-assist
Overhead power lines on the steepest ramps let the truck climb on grid electricity and cut diesel use on the most punishing part of the haul.
Priya Raman6 min read
Hydrogen fuel-cell wheel loader completes six-month pilot at a steel mill
The loader matched its diesel twin on uptime, but refuelling logistics remain the open question.
Dana Whitlock6 min read
Treadline adds 4,000 machines to its rental fleet and bets on telematics-first contracts
The rental group will bill some customers by engine hours and utilisation data rather than by the day, starting with aerial and earthmoving equipment.
Marcus Bell5 min read
Why mid-size combines are outselling flagships this harvest
Tighter margins and smaller custom-harvest crews are pushing farms toward Class 7 machines that are easier to finance and easier to staff.
Hannah Greer5 min read
Battery loaders go deeper as mines count the cost of ventilation
Removing diesel exhaust underground cuts one of a deep mine's largest energy bills, and battery loaders are finally big enough to do it.
Priya Raman5 min read
Battery-swap stations for mini excavators arrive on urban job sites
A trailer-mounted swap unit lets electric compact machines keep digging all day without waiting on a charger or a grid connection.
Luis Ortega4 min read
Spray drones win wider approval for crop protection on row crops
Regulators have cleared heavier payloads and multi-drone swarms, opening the door to drone spraying on large corn and soybean fields.
Hannah Greer5 min read
Autonomous pallet movers take over the coldest shifts in frozen-food warehouses
Robots rated for -30°C are handling pallet moves in freezer rooms that are hard to staff and hard on people.
Owen Park4 min read
Quarry operators turn to tracked mobile crushers to shorten haul distances
Moving the crusher to the face instead of trucking rock to a fixed plant is saving fuel, tyres, and trucks at mid-size aggregate sites.
Priya Raman4 min read
Telehandlers get load-moment systems that report to the fleet office
New connected stability systems log every near-limit lift, giving site managers a record of how machines are actually being used.
Owen Park5 min read
Steel prices ease, but dealers warn equipment lead times will stay long into 2027
Lower input costs have not yet reached price lists, and engines, hydraulics, and electronics remain the bottleneck at assembly plants.
Marcus Bell4 min read
Crowded skylines push tower crane anti-collision systems from option to requirement
Cities with dense high-rise pipelines are starting to require zoning and anti-collision systems on every crane with an overlapping jib.
Dana Whitlock4 min read
Mobile charging trailers fill the power gap on electric job sites
Rental houses are pairing battery trailers with electric compact machines so contractors can go electric before the grid connection arrives.
Luis Ortega4 min read
Forage harvesters use onboard sensors to adjust chop length on the go
Near-infrared sensors in the spout read crop moisture and adjust chop length automatically, aiming for better silage and less fuel.
Hannah Greer4 min read
3D machine control becomes standard on new motor graders
Road builders say grade-to-plan blades cut rework so sharply that they no longer order graders without them.
Luis Ortega4 min read
One operator, five drills: autonomous blasthole drilling scales up
An iron ore operation now runs its entire drill fleet from a remote control room, with holes placed within centimetres of the blast plan.
Priya Raman5 min read
Ports trade diesel reach stackers for hybrids that recover energy on every lower
Lowering a 40-tonne container generates power, and the new generation of reach stackers stores it for the next lift.
Owen Park4 min read