New Holland's upgraded range of TC5000 combines is set to significantly improve the productivity and efficiency of farm operations harvesting up to 300ha annualy, while offering an enhanced operator experience.

Case IH unveiled its new generation of Axial-Flow combines - the 5130, 6130, 7130, 7230, 8230 and 9230 – at the Farm Progress Show in Illinois, United States, at the end of August. The new Axial-Flow 30 Series combines meet Stage 3B emissions regulations while improving both performance and efficiency.

To commemorate 75 years of building combines, Claas is offering a special edition of the Lexion 750 with special features until November 30, 2011. Each machine comes hand signed by Helmut Claas and with an original drawing of the APS Hybrid System that he developed.

Two new MF 7300 Activa S combines extend the Massey Ferguson harvesting range for the 2012 season. The new machines feature the latest engine technology, a choice of threshing systems, the ability to fit the high-capacity PowerFlow headers and a host of other significant specification enhancements.

Claas has extended its range of Terra Trac running gear for the 2012 to include three different track widths: 635mm, 735mm and 890mm.

With the launch of the new MF 7300 Beta combines, Massey Ferguson is introducing higher specification, economy and performance to medium to large-scale operators and contractors.

It probably won't be coming to the UK, but Claas had added the new 160 model at the bottom of its Avero combine range to extend its offering for small- and medium-sized farms.

The Massey Ferguson Centora, still the only eight straw-walker combine available, will receive a host of new features for harvest 2012 to boost productivity and cut running costs. As well as the latest SRC engine technology, they also get other significant upgrades.

John Deere is already the world's largest manufacturer of combines, producing more than twice as many as its closest competitor, but with the introduction of the new S-Series for 2012, the company is also now offering the most powerful combine at 625hp.

John Deere's 2012 W and T Series combines provide new levels of grain harvesting productivity for larger arable farms and contractors. They now feature the industry's largest separation areas and provide smooth, direct crop flow that is gentler on grain and straw.

Massey Ferguson has introduced a completely new concept in combine automatic levelling on its new MF7360 and MF7370 Beta ParaLevel models. The robust, straightforward system uses a parallel-linkage system that allows the fitting of wide tyres while maintaining the important 3.5m width for road transport.

New Holland's CX5000 and CX6000 range of conventional combines have been significantly improved to offer increased efficiency and productivity for farms of 200-600ha.

Joining the Deutz-Fahr 60 Series combine harvester range, the Deutz-Fahr 6040 is the new starter model that should find a popular niche in the market as a reliable and economical straw walker combine with many proven design points that help to ensure trouble-free harvesting.

Agco has announced that, subject to the approval of competition authorities, it will buy the Italian Argo Group's 50 per cent stake in Laverda SpA to assume 100 per cent ownership of the company. The deal also includes the German-based manufacturer of grassland machinery Fella.

If the maximum productivity is to be obtained from a machine such as a combine, it is important that the operator makes the maximum use of that machine's potential. However, such is human nature, regardless of whether they are using a combine or something like a digital camera, having established the basics of how the machine works, most people will then stick to their 'comfort zone' and rarely explore further to utilise that item's full potential.

Fifteen years after Claas first introduced the Lexion combine, the company has totally revamped its model offering to ensure it remains the benchmark by which other combines are compared.

MASSEY Ferguson's much anticipated high-capacity combine, the brand new MF9280 Delta, will be revealed at the Agritechnica 2009.

FOR the 2010 harvesting season Deutz-Fahr has introduced the 60 Series combine harvesters - a completely new range of machines that offer new styling, improved technical specification and, as a result, higher outputs.

FOR many smaller arable growers when it comes to harvesting their crops, other than using a contractor, they are faced with the option of either buying a new combine that it probably too big and expensive for their needs, or trying to find a good quality used smaller machine, which is extremely rare mainly because new machines of this size will be kept for a long time.

FOLLOWING the successful introduction of the Tucano combine range last year, Claas has extended the range with the addition of a new model, the Tucano 480, which features the performance-boosting Claas Hybrid rotary threshing system.

JOHN Deere has added two new combines to its W Series range. The five-walker W550 and six-walker W660 models offer the same basic specification as the existing machines, but with increased horsepower to provide customers with a wider choice of combines utilising the company’s walker tine separation technology.

MORE quality and comfort are offered by the newly styled 1470 and 1570 combines from John Deere, which replace the existing 1450 and 1550 models and can be ordered now for the 2010 harvest.

CLAAS has introduced a new 12m wide Vario cutterbar that will further boost the output capability of the company’s high-capacity Lexion 600 combine.

ABREY Agricultural is now marketing combine unloading auger extension kits made by Stewart Steel, of Saskatchewan, Canada.

THE new Massey Ferguson Centora range are the only combine harvesters on the market equipped with eight straw-walkers, with the two models – the 378hp, MF 7280 and 413hp, MF 7282 - both available in full AutoLevel versions.

DEUTZ-FAHR has expanded its combine range to include two high capacity rotary models – the 7535RTS and the larger 7545RTS.

New Holland has made a number of changes to its UK combine offering to remove complexity and strengthen the company’s overall position.

THE 2009 Case IH combine offering has been completely revised and now features six models.

THINK "biggest" was also the instruction given to the designers bringing New Holland's CR9090 Elevation project to fruition.

JOHN Deere’s combine offering for 2009 has been on show to prospective buyers around the UK at the company’s Combine Roadshow.