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Flotation

Knowledge Guide

Choose Your Combine’s Rear Tires Wisely

Your combine’s rear tires are more important than you might think. They can either help you float across the field or leave you sunk in the mud.
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Floater Tires Pay Off for Your Payloader

You’ll maximize the productivity of your payloader and protect your soil when you ditch its stock OTR tires and invest in a set of floater tires.
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Tire Footprint is the Key to Your Sprayer’s Performance

The right tires and air pressure can dramatically improve your sprayer’s performance in the field and down the road and can even increase your yields.
Product Review

Titan/Goodyear Launches New Massive LSW Tire

Goodyear LSW tires give you an unbeatable footprint and serious traction for your MFWD and 4WD tractors as well as your combine and grain cart.
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Keep Farm Tire Pressures Low for Higher Profits

You’ll see higher profits from higher yields and lower fuel use when you keep your tire pressures as low as possible in the field.
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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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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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5 Signs It’s Time to Replace Your Tractor Tires

Avoid a costly and time-consuming tire failure by taking a few minutes to review the health of your tractor tires. And don’t forget your implement tires, either.
Product Review

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.
Knowledge Guide

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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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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Transform Your Tractor with a Central Tire Inflation System

Pull harder, fight compaction, and burn less fuel with a central tire inflation system.
Product Review

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

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.
Product Review

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.
Product Review

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.
Knowledge Guide

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.
Product Review

Introducing Maxi Traction: A New Angle for Firestone

The Firestone Maxi Traction farm tire lineup features a new tread angle that will replace the 23° tread in select applications. See our detailed review here...
Product Review

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.
Knowledge Guide

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.