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New Tech Tractors that Talk
Wed Nov 11, 2009 01:24 PM CST

PLATTSBURG, Mo. (DTN) -- Your farm equipment is already pretty smart. It can turn spray nozzles or planter clutches on and off automatically. It can tell you how much it is harvesting. Heck, it can even steer itself.

Now it can learn to use a cell phone to talk to your office computer.

That's one way to describe a new technology product AGCO is about to offer. The company calls its system AGCOMMAND. It will remotely access information from a piece of farm equipment -- let's say, a tractor in a distant field -- so ...

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