Category: New Products

Reinke Manufacturing, announced the commercial release of E3™, the first precision series of center pivot systems, now available to growers in the United States and Canada.

First unveiled in 2024, the patented E3 system is designed to deliver unmatched water application accuracy and performance across diverse field conditions. By ensuring consistent and efficient distribution, E3 provides tremendous value to growers, helping to maximize yield potential while conserving water and reducing operating costs.

“With E3 now available across the U.S. and Canada, growers finally have access to a center pivot system designed from the ground up for precision,” said Chris Roth, president of Reinke. “This is more than a new product—it’s a new standard for how irrigation systems perform in the field, giving growers the control and efficiency they’ve been asking for.”

E3 is now available for purchase through Reinke dealers in the U.S. and Canada, with additional markets to be opened as this advanced system rolls out worldwide. To learn more or to find a dealer near you, visit www.Reinke.com.

Topcon Agriculture has launched its Value Line Steering option, a new offering aimed at making precision farming accessible for small and medium-sized farming operations. The Value Line Steering system makes advanced auto-steering capabilities compatible with a wider range of tractors and enables older tractors to operate at sub-5 cm accuracy levels previously reserved for new, high-end machinery, according to the company.

Visit www.topconpositioning.com.

The label for Vive Crop Protection’s AZteroid FC 390 in Canada has been expanded to a wider range of crops including carrots. In carrots, the fungicide is designed to help control Rhizoctonia root rot, crown rot and stem canker. AZteroid FC 390 delivers long-lasting, soil-borne disease control resulting in even stand establishment, especially under cold, wet conditions, according to Vive. The product is created to mix easily with liquid fertilizers and other crop inputs to enable a single-pass application of disease control and fertility.

Visit vivecrop.ca/azteroid.

Nutrien Ag Solutions Inc. is rolling out N-FINITY this spring. The product is meant to improve nitrogen use efficiency by enhancing the soil’s ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen, recruiting nitrogen-fixing bacteria into the root zone and facilitating the liberation of nitrogen from soil organic pools. N-FINITY combines three modes of action and leverages biological technology to optimize nitrogen availability for improved plant health and crop yields, according to the company.

Visit lovelandproducts.com/n-finity.

RDX-N, a new nitrogen optimization product from Redox Bio-Nutrients, is now available. RDX-N is a stable, botanical extract biostimulant combined with organic carbon compounds designed to stimulate better nitrogen metabolism in plants. The product’s patent-pending combination of biostimulants is said to increase nitrogen optimization, including a 50% efficiency gain in synthetic liquid nitrogen applications, while maintaining crop production and quality.

Visit redoxgrows.com.

Reinke Manufacturing has unveiled E3™, the first precision series of center pivot systems. The patented irrigation system offers unmatched accuracy and performance, providing tremendous value by ensuring consistent and efficient water management and distribution across diverse field conditions for growers.

E3 is the first precision series of spans and end booms with uniform coupler spacing (in 30” and 60” intervals) to ensure a uniform water application rate the entire length of the system, exceeding previous water uniformity benchmarks according to the USDA Center Pivot Evaluation and Design (CPED). The E3 precision irrigation system also includes a variety of new features that provide enhanced stability, reliability, precision, and efficiency across all terrains and conditions, such as:

E3 will be available for sale in select markets during the growing season 2025.

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Tong Engineering has introduced the new Stinger Hopper, specifically engineered to meet the demands of the U.S. and Canadian markets. This innovative new even flow hopper solution is designed to streamline the unloading of live-bottom trucks and semis for maximum efficiency and reliability.

The new Stinger Hopper features a deep-flighted 6-foot wide stinger elevator at the infeed, which is hydraulically adjustable to suit the height of the unloading trailers for ultimate versatility.

The new built-in Stinger elevator can be specified on any Tong even flow hopper, whether it’s unloading onto a static handling line or a mobile grading and sizing solution. When added to a mobile even flow hopper, the Stinger elevator can be moved hydraulically into a transport position within seconds, making the machine quickly and easily transportable to its next destination.

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Teledyne FLIR IIS has released the Forge 1GigE IP67, the latest in its industrial camera series designed to perform in harsh industrial environments while ensuring highly efficient production capabilities.

The new camera series has an IP67 cylindrical enclosure for optimal and easy system integration, simplified post operation washing, and the prevention of dirt accumulation.

With advanced on-camera features such as auto-brightness functions (AGC and Auto-Exposure), the new cameras dynamically adjust in variable and outdoor lighting conditions. The IEEE1588 protocol enables multi-camera image capture synchronization, and Lossless Compression (LLC) provides higher frame rates and lower bandwidth requirements, maximizing camera output without compromising image quality for high-speed applications.

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Key Technology has rolled out its new Compass optical sorter suitable for processing lines handling food products including carrots. Powered by next-generation inspection technology and a new sort engine, the machine is designed to accurately separate foreign material from the line, in addition to sorting the specific product defects each processor wants to manage.

Compass is offered in a configurable range of system types and sizes to meet individual customer requirements. Key is first introducing chute-fed Compass models, to be followed by belt-fed variants of the sorter.

Visit www.key.net.