John Deere lately earned 9 2025 AE50 Awards for excellent innovation in engineering and expertise for agricultural, meals and organic methods. Yearly, the American Society of Agricultural and Organic Engineers (ASABE) acknowledges the 50 most modern product-engineering designs within the meals and agricultural {industry} as chosen by worldwide engineering consultants. AE50 winners embrace machines, methods, elements, software program and providers that rank highest for innovation, vital engineering development and affect for the markets they serve.
This yr, John Deere obtained AE50 Awards for the next improvements:
“The AE50 Awards exhibit the work completed by our group to supply relevant merchandise and expertise to our prospects,” mentioned Jon Chase, vice chairman of promoting and shared providers for John Deere’s ag and turf divisions. “The John Deere group works with our sellers and farmers to innovate the instruments and expertise that assist them be extra productive and environment friendly by doing extra with much less.”
Right here’s a recap of this yr’s winners:
- 300M Sequence Self-Propelled Sprayers. These sprayers are extremely maneuverable, making them ideally suited for narrow-access roads, and are absolutely built-in with John Deere precision ag expertise with superior spray management methods, delivering prime quality crop safety.
- Implement Management Mode (ICM) with eDrive Package. John Deere now has the power to offboard electrical energy generated by an EVT transmission to allow exact management and enhanced drivability for third get together implements. Examples embrace the Spudnik potato harvesters and JOSKIN manure tankers.
- See & Spray Premium. John Deere See & Spray Premium expertise is obtainable on sure fashions of John Deere and Hagie sprayers from the manufacturing unit or as a Precision Improve. See & Spray expertise prompts particular person spray nozzles when goal weeds are “seen” by boom-mounted cameras. The cameras scan over 2,100 sq. toes of crop per second because the sprayer is in movement. Onboard processors then decide whether or not a person plant is a crop or weed and sends instructions to particular person ExactApply nozzles, which ship a exact dose of herbicide solely the place the weed is acknowledged. The expertise is at the moment accessible for utility on corn, soybean, cotton and fallow fields and might reduce herbicide utilization by greater than 50%*.
- C-Sequence Air Carts. The C-Sequence air cart line affords diminished upkeep and improved seeding accuracy with options together with corrosion-resistant AccuRate chrome steel meters which are electronically managed; quicker calibrations and improved seeding confidence from the beginning with the industry-exclusive EZCal calibration system; the power to know what number of acres are left by utilizing the tank scales.
- 5ML Tractor Cab. Designed particularly for the tight areas of orchard and winery environments, the John Deere 5ML specialty tractor affords superior expertise and spectacular horsepower, with choices as much as 130-engine horsepower. The all-new cab gives distinctive consolation and entry to John Deere precision expertise, just like bigger John Deere fashions. Normal options embrace JDLink, built-in AutoTrac straight-line steerage by way of the middle console show, and compatibility with the most recent G5 Show and StarFire receiver. Growers can customise the tractor with an ordinary axle mannequin or the brand new 5ML slim mannequin, which has a working width as slim as 61”, enabling it to deal with large duties in small areas.
- AutoSelect Pulsing with Multi Price. AutoSelect Pulsing with Multi Price is a brand new performance accessible with ExactApply nozzles suitable with mannequin yr 2023 and newer John Deere self-propelled sprayers. This performance delivers a number of charges throughout the increase — as much as 11 distinctive sections, resulting in extra exact product placement and elevated fee vary for variable fee prescription and curve compensation.
- Milk Sustainability Middle. The Milk Sustainability Middle (MSC) is a cloud-based answer that serves dairy farmers by integrating their equipment, milking tools and herd administration software program manufacturers into one platform to help monitoring and suggestions. MSC was based by John Deere and DeLaval and is developed by Dairy Information Warehouse which integrates the agronomic information from the John Deere Operations Middle and animal information from current methods to help dairy farm effectivity and profitability.
- Energetic Slope Adjustment. The modern Energetic Slope Adjustment expertise gives lively materials re-distribution on the cleansing shoe by a variable velocity conveyor belt throughout sidehill operation. Moreover, via its lively pre-cleaning attributes, the efficiency in level-land, high-grain and material-other-than grain situations is elevated.
- 9RX 710, 770 and 830 Tractors. Three new 9RX fashions, 710, 770, and 830 hp, are powered by the JD18 engine from John Deere Energy Methods. This Ultimate Tier 4/Stage V-compliant 18-liter engine meets emissions necessities utilizing exhaust-gas recirculation expertise, eliminating the necessity for diesel exhaust fluid (DEF), probably saving farmers the price of tons of of gallons of DEF per season. The brand new tractors give farmers the arrogance to tug wider implements, decreasing the variety of spring and fall passes, and with the upper engine and hydraulic energy they’ll pull absolutely loaded air seeders over just about any sort of terrain with out slowing down.
*Outcomes primarily based on inner John Deere strip trials in corn, soybeans, and cotton in Arkansas, Nebraska, and Texas, in typical rising situations, with various weed measurement, crop cover, and discipline situations, utilizing focused spray of non-residual herbicide solely, and utilizing present software program/algorithm at time of trials. Outcomes differ primarily based on crop; for particulars. Particular person outcomes will differ.
