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BKT Initiates Digital Format for Tractor of the Year Awards

The digital program will consist of various episodes that will cover topics in the agricultural industry and enable the jury to evaluate award nominees remotely.

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AEM Examines Economic Impact of COVID on Agricultural Industry

Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM)

In general, COVID-19 has had a negative impact on most aspects of the agricultural industry and farm incomes are anticipated to be lower than originally projected at the beginning of the year.

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AEF ATLAS Team Creates Use Cases to Aid Interoperability of Agricultural Machine Data

Agricultural Industry Electronics Foundation (AEF)

The AEF ATLAS team has developed use cases to make field operations more insight-driven, and potentially more productive and efficient.

Data exchange between machines and systems used by the farmer has to be easy, protected and automated, and is the next challenge in ATLAS as the team designs the architecture.

AEM Hall of Fame Inventors who Changed the World

Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM)

From plows to shovels to lasers, many of the inventors inducted into the AEM Hall of Fame have helped alter the course of history.

The Holt Crawler Tractor was developed by Benjamin Holt to work on any and every type of surface, especially softer soils.

DTNA Resumes Manufacturing Operations, Sees Increase in Freight Activity

Daimler Truck North America LLC

Daimler Trucks has observed weekly mileage of its telematics-connected trucks increasing and projects a return to pre-crisis levels by the end of June.

All of Daimler Trucks North America's manufacturing operations have now reopened.

New Holland Celebrates 40 Years of Noria Basket System for Braud harvesters

New Holland Agriculture

The Noria basket enables the collection and transport of vines and fruit without ground losses and with no maceration.

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NA Class 8 Truck Orders Increase in May Compared to Previous Month

FTR Transportation Intelligence

Class 8 truck orders in May increased around 60% compared to April 2020, but were down 37% from May 2019.

Class 8 truck orders increased in May 2020 compared to the previous month.

TOBROCO-GIANT Builds 25,000th Machine

The 25,000th machine is an electric G2200E X-TRA and was produced at the company's facility in Oisterwijk.

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CASE CE Delivers Equipment to Angola's Ministry of Transport

CASE has made its largest delivery yet in 2020 as it starts to see an uptake in construction activity in some parts of the world.

Case Construction Equipment

AEM Calls for Bipartisan Effort in Passing Surface Transportation Bill

Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM)

AEM President Dennis Slater says investing in our nation’s infrastructure benefits all Americans and the government should prioritize providing long-term funding for critical infrastructure modernization.

Infrastructure investment will help the equipment manufacturing industry and overall U.S. economy.

Nikola and VectoIQ Acquisition Corp. Close Business Merger

Nikola Corporation

The merger will help accelerate vehicle production, and allow Nikola to build a new manufacturing facility in Arizona as well as continue its hydrogen station infrastructure roll out.

The Nikola Two is the latest iteration of the company's hydrogen-fueled Class 8 truck.

Case IH Donates Tractors to Trade Schools

Case IH Agriculture Equipment, Inc.

Case IH has donated tractors to three trade schools which will be used as training aids for diesel technology programs.

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