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In Equipment , News & PR , Planters

New Kinze 5670 Planter Offers Enhanced Productivity, Convenience and Serviceability for 2025

WILLIAMSBURG, Iowa (Jan. 25, 2024) — For the 2025 planting season, Kinze Manufacturing is introducing the new 5670 pivot fold, split row model planters. Utilizing the latest and best in technology and performance-boosting features, the 5670 delivers enhanced productivity, increased operator convenience and efficient serviceability. The versatile 5670 pivot fold, split row planter, available in 12/23-row and 16/31-row configurations, plants both 15" and 30" row widths and can be used as a dedicated narrow-row planter or a multi-crop planting workhorse. The lift-and-pivot frame provides unmatched balance and stability in the field, narrow width when transporting and best-in-class residue flow with the exclusive cast push row unit. “Our 5670 model planters are new from hitch pin to closing wheels,” said Susanne...

January 25, 2024 by Kinze Manufacturing

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Kinze Blue Vantage display now connects with Climate FieldView™

The best planter display now easily shares data with a trusted name in field analysis software. Beginning February 2024, all Kinze Blue Vantage displays updated with the latest Kinze software release will be able to share field data with the Climate FieldView Drive. By simply adding a FieldView Drive adapter kit and an iPad equipped with the Cab App, you can easily view real-time mapping of populations, speed, downforce, fertilizer rates, planting date, and more. This enables seamless data upload to your FieldView account when using a Kinze Blue Vantage display. Check the FieldView Compatibility Guides later in the fall of 2023 at support.climate.com.

August 29, 2023 by Kinze Manufacturing

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The Kinze Re-powers

Only three years after opening his small welding shop, Jon had forged a solid reputation for being able to complete tough modification jobs. With a skilled hand, a sharp mind, and the courage to take on any challenge, Jon tackled a farmer’s request to fit a Detroit 8V-71 engine into a brand new John Deere 5020. At the time, the term “re-power” wasn’t even part of the farmer’s vocabulary, but it soon would be, as Jon explains below. Kinze Welding Re-powers We started doing tractor re-powers in 1968, but the concept of re-powering wasn’t exactly new. Farmers had been frustrated by the lack of power in their tractors for a long time and had been experimenting with different engines. I...

April 28, 2023 by Kinze Manufacturing

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The First Patent

The early ’70s were pivotal years for Kinze Manufacturing. When Jon went to the local Oliver dealer to order a new plow, he left empty-handed. Before long, he was at the U.S. Patent Office in Washington, D.C., applying for Kinze’s first patent: an industry-changing plow design. Read the story as Jon tells it. Jon Needs a New Plow By the spring of 1971, the re-power business had really taken off and customers wanted to see the tractors work in the field, and one of the best ways to demonstrate the power was by pulling a plow. I had borrowed a seven-bottom John Deere plow, called a semi-mounted plow. It had a front wheel in the furrow and a tail wheel...

March 28, 2023 by Kinze Manufacturing

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Kinze Introduces New 5000 Series Row Unit and Two New Planters for 2024

WILLIAMSBURG, Iowa (Feb. 15, 2023) – Kinze Manufacturing is launching two planter models for 2024 featuring the company’s new 5000 Series row unit that’s designed to enhance planting precision, boost productivity and reduce daily maintenance time. The unit will be available on Kinze’s new 5900 and 5700 planter models, both equipped with the easy-to-use Blue Vantage display and powered by Blue Drive electric drive. The sleek-styled cast row unit is fully redesigned for planting at any speed up to 12 miles per hour. Easy ability to upgrade from Kinze’s True Rate vacuum meter to True Speed high-speed meter. Key features include greaseless gauge wheel arms, scraper-equipped shim-less adjustable spoke gauge wheels, maintenance-free double bushing parallel arms and a long-life outside...

February 14, 2023 by Kinze Manufacturing

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A Tractor & His Boy

Eugene “Jack” Kinzenbaw, Jon’s father, passed away in 1982. He was a World War II veteran who served overseas in the U.S. Army. One of the first things he did upon returning to Iowa was purchase a Farmall “H,” which was eventually sold and replaced by a newer tractor. Jack’s passing prompted Jon to search for the “Old H,” which his father had modified just for young Jon. Read the story in Jon’s own words. It was the first tractor I ever rode on and the first one I drove. By the time I was five years old, I could stand on the left axle and hang onto the light post and the back of the seat. As I got...

January 27, 2023 by Kinze Manufacturing

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Christmas in Lithuania

In 2013, Kinze opened a production facility in Vilnius, Lithuania, that allowed for better and faster service to European customers. Rich in culture and tradition, our Kinze employees in Lithuania have beautiful and unique Christmas customs we would like to share with you. In Lithuania, Christmas Eve, which is also the last day of Advent, is when Lithuanians officially celebrate Christmas and have their large evening family meal. Both Christmas Eve and the celebration meal are called “Kūčios”. In preparing for the Christmas Eve meal, straw is commonly used as a table decoration, spread on the tabletop, and covered with a clean white tablecloth. Then, candles and small branches or twigs from a fir tree are used as additional decorations....

December 19, 2022 by Kinze Manufacturing

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Our Thanksgiving Feast

As you enjoy Thanksgiving with your family this year, remember your holiday table represents more than just food and football. It characterizes generosity, gratitude, unity, tradition, and above all — hard work. Every dish was prepared with care, but only because of the weeks (or months) of labor and sacrifice by farmers from around the world. During this holiday, take some time to say “Thank you” to the farmers that work so hard every day to feed the world. While there are many food traditions we enjoy at Thanksgiving, we hope you enjoy this brief history of a few of them. Mashed Potatoes While buttery and creamy mashed potatoes are a definite favorite on many contemporary Thanksgiving tables, they were...

November 16, 2022 by Kinze Manufacturing

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Meters, Drives, & Displays – An Overview

Aside from the style of planter frame that works best on your farm, the most important choices regarding a row crop planter are the type of seed meter, the drive used to operate it, and the system used to monitor and control it. When you consider that today’s corn planters can routinely plant 500 acres a day, it is hard to imagine that only 200 years ago a farmer did really well to plant only ONE acre of corn in a long day by making holes with a hoe or "dibble stick" and dropping seeds into the ground. However, as soon as the Industrial Revolution hit the American shore, planting quickly evolved to hand-actuated planters, then to horse-drawn drill planters,...

October 25, 2022 by Kinze Manufacturing

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Big Blue

The Tractor that Stole the Show “We ought to build a great big plow and tractor just to promote our companies. We need something with about 600 horsepower, and we need a 12-bottom plow. When we leave that show they’ll know we were there.”-Bill Dietrich At the 1974 Farm Progress Show near Fort Dodge, Iowa, dozens of people swarmed around “Big Blue,” Jon Kinzenbaw’s paint-barely-dry, 20-ton concoction that coupled two, re-powered John Deere tractors into an eight-wheeled, four-wheel drive behemoth. The crowd buzzed as “Big Blue,” with Jon in the cab, appeared to be stuck. He was attempting to pull Kinze’s new 12-bottom plow, but the tractor, despite its 600 horsepower, was going nowhere. Its front wheels had spun down...

October 3, 2022 by Kinze Manufacturing