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Compaction

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The Top Floater Tires for Your Sprayer in 2024

Stay in the field when it counts the most with a set of floater tires for your sprayer. Float through wet spots and improve machine handling.
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The Top VF Sprayer Tires for 2024

These are the best VF-rated sprayer tires for improving the fuel economy, handling, and flotation of your sprayer.
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Bias vs. Radial Tractor Tires: Which Should I Choose?

Radial tractor tires provide your farm with several advantages over older bias-ply tractor tires, including higher load capacities and longer wear.
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3 Reasons Your Implement Tires Fail (And Our Top 5 Tires to Replace Them)

Radial implement tires are the best option for handling the weight of today’s massive implements while improving fuel economy, handling, and road performance.
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Spread Manure, Not Compaction with a Central Tire Inflation System

A central tire inflation system mounted on your manure tanker can help prevent compaction from taking root in your fields and affecting your farm’s productivity.
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Farm Tires: An Important Agronomy Decision

Tires aren’t just big, round, and rubber: They are an agronomy decision that can either support your operation’s profitability or undercut it at every turn.
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Tires vs. Tracks: Which Creates Less Compaction?

While it’s true that tracks “float” better than tires, modern radial tires are better at protecting your fields from compaction when compared to tracks.
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5 Strategies to Improve Your Tractor's Fuel Economy

Because your tractor’s tires are its only link to the ground, you have to optimize their performance if you want to maximize your tractor’s fuel efficiency.
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Recent Study Estimates that Soil Compaction is Costing Farmers Millions

Think soil compaction isn’t an issue in agriculture today? Truth is, compaction is stealing a lot of dollars from operations just like yours.
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New Corn & Soybean Yield Study Puts Pressure on High Tire Pressure

New corn and soybean study explores the link between tire pressure and yield.
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5 Technologies Taking the Pressure Off Your Planter's Pinch Rows

Battle pinch row compaction and reclaim lost yields with these 5 technologies.
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Transform Your Tractor with a Central Tire Inflation System

Pull harder, fight compaction, and burn less fuel with a central tire inflation system.
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Giant Goodyear LSWs Bring Big Benefits for Planting

Experience better traction, increased fuel economy, and less compaction when planting with Goodyear LSW tires.
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3 Situations Where LSW Super Singles Can Outperform Duals

Experience less compaction at planting, a smoother harvest, and better handling with Goodyear LSW super single tractor tires.
Knowledge Guide

Apply Chemicals, Not Compaction with a Central Tire Inflation System on Your Sprayer

Avoid yield-robbing compaction when you equip your sprayer with a central tire inflation system.
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Should I Put Duals on my Sprayer?

Sprayer duals can help you float through wet fields and save you time and fuel. Here's what you'll want to know before putting duals on your sprayer.
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The Top 5 Planter Tires that Fight Compaction

Reduce pinch row compaction by swapping out your current yield-robbing planter tires with these 5 new low-pressure VF planter tires.
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10 Questions Farmers Have About Central Tire Inflation Systems

Answers to the top 10 questions farmers have about central tire inflation systems.
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Why You Need a Central Tire Inflation System for Your Planter

Boost your bottom line by fighting compaction with a PTG Central Tire Inflation System on your planter.
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Roll Your Way To Bigger Yields with IF/VF Tires

IF & VF radial tires crush compaction and boost your yields by putting a larger, longer footprint on the ground.
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Are Your Current Tires Stunting Your Farm's Growth?

Research has shown that soil compaction can slash yields by up to 15% in a single year with losses that continue for more than a decade. Here's how to stop it.
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Does it Pay to Plant with VF Tires?

Does planting with VF tires on your tractor and planter increase yield? Our 750-acre side-by-side field trial on corn and soybeans indicates the answer is yes.
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The Ultimate Guide to High-Speed Flotation Tires for Spreader Trucks & Trailers

These are the 16 best high-speed flotation spreader truck and trailer tires for delivering solid in-field performance and high-speed road travel.
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Galileo CupWheel: Is the Next Tire Revolution Here?

The Galileo CupWheel could be the solution you’ve been searching for: A tire that slashes compaction and boosts traction the harder you work it.
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What is the Optimal Percent Slippage for Heavy Pulling?

Do you want 100 percent of your engine’s power transmitted to pulling your implement? As it turns out—no. Having some slippage will actually make you MORE efficient.
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Take a Load off Your Mind with these 7 Grain Cart Tires

Deep soil compaction can have a huge negative impact on your bottom line. Here are the top 7 grain cart tires for lightening your footprint.
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100 Years of Farm Tire Technology

In 1935, about 85% of tractors rode on metal wheels. With a punishing ride and lots of slippage, metal-lugged tractor wheels were far from ideal...
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Why Does My Ripper Pull So Hard?

You are flattening the structure of your soils and driving compaction beyond the point of recovery. Here's how you can stop it.
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A Detailed Look at Alliance Combine Tires

Compare the top 5 Alliance combine tires for sale. Choose between the lowest-cost tires or get the very best combine tires for maximizing flotation and traction.
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A Detailed Look at Michelin Combine Tires

Understand the differences between Michelin's combine tires for sale in this detailed comparison of the CerexBib, CerexBib 2, MegaXBib, and MegaXBib 2 combine tires.
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Traction Tips to Pull Through a Wet Season

Tracks are not always the solution for overcoming a wet growing season. Here are 5 things you can do with your tires to improve your flotation and reduce compaction.
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IF/VF Tractor Tires: What Sets Them Apart from Standard Radial Tires?

What is the difference between an IF/VF radial tire and a standard radial tire? IF/VF tires can carry up to 20-40% more weight at the same air pressure or...
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How to Reduce Soil Compaction to Inflate Your Yields

Reduce soil compaction and increase your tractor's performance and farm's yields with these 3 ag tire technologies.