Fall Wheat Planting: The Pre-Drill Checklist Before the Tractor Leaves the Shop
The August 18 wheat prescription post walked through the data side of building a fall wheat prescription from last year's yield map. This post picks up where that one ends, five to ten days before the drill actually rolls into the field. The...
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Mid-Harvest Combine Repairs: What Actually Breaks and How Fast Koenig Can Fix It
Harvest is running across Ohio and Indiana right now, which means our service phones are running too. This is the week our combine techs stop taking lunch and start answering "how fast can you get to me" 40 times a day. If you are reading this from...
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Fall Leaf Cleanup: Why the John Deere X350 Beats the Rake
Picture a single acre under a heavy fall drop. Raking that by hand isn't a chore, it's a project: hours of bending, dragging tarps, filling bags, and hauling them to the curb, usually spread across both days off. Most people don't finish in one...
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Late-Season Forage: Stockpiling Pasture and Prepping Your Baler for the Final Cutting
The window is closing, so pick your paddock now. Choose your best-drained tall fescue or orchardgrass ground and close it off in late summer. That gives you several weeks of regrowth before dormancy sets in, which is where your extra grazing days...
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Fall Fencing & Feed Hauling: Picking the Right Gator for Livestock
Match the Gator to the load, not the badge: fencing and feed math Before you look at horsepower, add up your heaviest routine load. Twenty 50 lb bags of feed is a thousand pounds by itself. Add a post driver, a roll of woven wire, a handful of...
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Combine Yield Map Calibration: Trustworthy Fall Harvest Data for Spring
Data off an uncalibrated combine is worse than no data at all. It comes out of the monitor looking authoritative, gets loaded into John Deere Operations Center, and quietly skews every seed and fertility decision you build on it next spring. Before...
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Rotary Cutter Selection for Fall Cleanup on a Compact Tractor
If your fall property work list includes an overgrown fence line, a pasture that got away from you during summer, brush along a ditch that has not been cut in two years, or a field edge that needs to be knocked down before the leaves fall, the right...
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What Ferris Suspension Actually Does for a Fall Property Owner
If you own 20-plus acres and you have been running the same non-suspension zero-turn for six or seven summers, there is a decent chance your body knows something about the machine that your budget has not fully processed yet. Long mowing runs on...
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What Comes into the Used Compact Tractor Lot in Late Summer
Walk into any Koenig used equipment lot the second and third weeks of August and the compact tractor inventory looks different than it did in April. Not just because different specific units are on the lot, but because the mix and character of what...
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