Letter from Europe

: Electronic automation, new power sources catch the eye at Agritechnica

The world’s largest farm equipment exhibition launches a diesel-electric tractor. Other electrical innovations offer continuous crop-related adjustment of combining and silage harvesting.  And even cow power is lighting up the barns

by NORMAN DUNN

At farm equipment shows, it’s the dramatic innovations that grab attention. For instance, the very term “diesel-electric tractor” promised something new and exciting at the Agritechnica exhibition in Germany in November.