Articles Tagged with ''Kinze Manufacturing''

Rear-Fold Planter

The Rear-Fold Planter and the Battle that Ensued

This chapter from Jon Kinzenbaw’s book, Fifty Years of Disruptive Innovation, shares his story behind John Deere’s effort to squeeze Kinze Manufacturing out of the planter building business.
In 1975, a farmer from southern Iowa stopped by my shop and commented that somebody should figure out how to fold a big planter horizontally to make it easy to move from field to field. At that time, twelve-row planters were being introduced, but they folded upward, which resulted in seed and insecticide being spilled from their hoppers.
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Online Extras: October/November 2015 Issue

Web-exclusive content for this issue includes:

  • An interview with Susanne Veatch, Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer of Kinze Manufacturing
  • Industry Q&A on the subject of employee training
  • Insight into how one family resolved conflict within the dealership

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Kinze Announces the World's First Electric Multi-Hybrid Concept Planter

In order to help farmers optimize their seed hybrids and increase their yields, Kinze Manufacturing, Inc. announces the worlds first electric multi-hybrid concept planter. Multi-hybrid technology provides farmers with the ability to change the seed hybrid they are planting automatically as the planter moves through the field. Instead of selecting an average seed variety for use across an entire field, seed hybrids can be selected and automatically planted to suit different field management zones.


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