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New G500V VariCut boosts Case IH performance

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New G500V VariCut headers boost Case IH combines’ performance

Working widths of 6.1-12.5m (20-41ft) / In-line knife drive with dual drive on 10.5m and 12.5m models / Knife speed increase from 660rpm to 735rpm enables higher forward speeds without compromising cutting performance / New click-on side knife-St. Valentin, June 25, 2025-Case IH Axial-Flow® combines can now be equipped with new G500V VariCut variable knife grain headers, with features that enhance performance and ease operator workload. The seven G500V models span 6.1-12.5m (20-41ft) working widths, each with a knife that can be moved across a 575mm fore/aft range to ensure consistent crop flow in all crop types and conditions. Wider models feature new hydraulically-operated gauge wheels that can be switched from the cab between transport and field mode, making it unnecessary to manually raise the wheels before loading the header on its trailer. (De)coupling time is minimized thanks to connections grouped on the left-hand side only, and a single PTO.

New VariCut headers feature inline knife drive, with fully-linear output shaft motion, for smooth operation with minimal vibration. The belt drive has been replaced by gearboxes and a telescopic PTO, reducing overall driveline maintenance requirements and easing the operator workload to maximise comfort. The 10.5m/35ft and 12.5m/41ft models feature 100% synchronized dual knife drive, where the right-hand knife is driven via the intake auger, an upgrade which helps further minimize vibration. A knife speed increase from 660rpm to 735rpm enables higher forward speeds without compromising cutting performance, maximising capacity.

How it Works

The auger stripper setting can now be altered from the rear of the header, encouraging operators to regularly check for correct adjustment, and to ensure even and consistent crop flow. The new auger height adjustment assembly provides two pre-set positions: a high one primarily for rapeseed/canola and a low one for small grains. This requires simply loosening four bolts and rotating the over-centre cam system, reducing adjustment time on single-span augers by 25%.

A new click-on side knife with aluminium cast frame is one-third lighter than the outgoing design. Over-centre locking retains the side knife or divider assemblies, cutting knife removal time by 50%, while lighter knives mean easier handling.

“The new G500V VariCut variable knife grain headers are designed specifically to help customers and operators of Case IH Axial-Flow 160 and 260 series combines, and the new AF series combines, to get the best performance from their machines,” explains Andreas Saile, Case IH Crop Harvesting Business Manager for Europe.

“Improvements from the gauge wheels to the couplings. Including, plus the lighter click-on sideknife, mean quicker set-up, enabling operators to get going faster in the field. With the main knife speed increase improving throughput, and the new knife drive cutting maintenance time, these upgrades collectively allow users to exploit the full potential of their combines.”

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Mobile Work Platforms & Telehandlers Parts

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JLG Industries, an Oshkosh Corporation business (NYSE: OSK) and a leading global manufacturer of mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs) and telehandlers.  They offer a full suite of customer support and parts services dedicated to its agricultural equipment dealers across North America. This exclusive agriculture support channel provides personalized assistance throughout the ownership journey.

Building a Strong Dealer Network
Firstly, JLG is establishing a contracted dealer network to sell, service and support the JLG Agriculture product line across North America. The company offers dealers designated Areas of Responsibility (AOR), financing and floorplan solutions, access to aftermarket parts.  Through Online Express and training through JLG University, marketing allowances, dedicated product support channels and an exclusive warranty program.

“Secondly, at JLG, we’re not just expanding our agriculture dealer network.  We’re carefully building it with the right partners who share our commitment to the customer,” says Cody Rainer, director of channel development — JLG Agriculture. “We believe that providing industry-leading support after the sale is just as important as delivering high-quality equipment. That’s why we’re focused on working with dealers who prioritize reliability, service and long-term customer success. Together, we’re creating a strong foundation to support the evolving needs of the North American agricultural industry.”

Dedicated Support Team
“Our commitment to our products doesn’t end with the sale,” continues Rainer. “We’ve developed a comprehensive support infrastructure specifically designed for our agriculture telehandler dealers.  Making sure they receive the parts, service and technical assistance they need to help their customers maximize productivity and uptime with JLG ® equipment.”

JLG Agriculture dealers can reach dedicated support personnel through:
Direct agriculture support line
Dedicated email with guaranteed response turnaround
District Service Managers providing regional field support

The company’s McConnellsburg, PA-based Contact Center operates Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. EST, with a 12-hour turnaround time commitment for sales, parts, service, warranty and training inquiries.

Aftermarket Parts Options and Distribution Network
The Company provides three distinct lines of aftermarket parts, giving agriculture dealers flexibility based
on their customers’ specific needs and budget considerations. Dealers can quickly access
aftermarket parts through the JLG Online Express platform, which offers:

24/7 access to solutions, including technical support, parts, manuals and product information

Convenient shopping with everyday low pricing and fast shipping

Easy order/returns management and purchase history tracking

JLG’s North American parts distribution infrastructure features three strategic locations to support agriculture customers across the United States:

Bedford, PA

Pittsburgh, PA

Las Vegas, NV

Manufacturer of Mobile Work Platforms & Telehandlers Parts, with 890,000-sq ft of storage capacity.  This network maintains over 65,000 active SKUs and ships 7,500 lines daily with 99.6% shipping accuracy and 99.8% next-day-air ship-to-promise performance.

“Our extensive parts inventory and distribution network ensure agriculture dealers receive the parts their customers need when they need them,” adds Rainer. “This reliability is crucial during critical farming seasons when equipment downtime simply isn’t an option.”

Comprehensive Training Resources
To support agriculture equipment dealers and their service teams, JLG offers extensive training options through JLG University:

  • Service training specifically for JLG Ag telehandlers
  • Electrical and hydraulic fundamentals courses
  • Engine resources and technical training
  • Diverse learning formats including classroom sessions (at JLG training centers or customer sites), instructor-led online training, and self-paced e-learning

“Our trainers spend 40,000 hours annually training customers,” notes Rainer.” This educational investment ensures agriculture customers have the knowledge and skills to maintain their equipment for optimal performance.”

Industry-Leading Product Line with Full Warranty Protection
From standard-sized telehandlers to powerful yet nimble compact models, JLG offers a dedicated line of telehandlers.  That are engineered specifically to meet the unique needs of farmers, ranchers, and commercial agricultural operations across North America. The new JLG ® Agriculture telehandler portfolio features five purpose-built models (AG313, AG519, AG823, AG832 and AG925). Accordingly, engineered specifically for agricultural applications, offering greater maneuverability, versatility and performance compared to traditional industrial telehandler models. JLG Manufacturer of Mobile Work Platforms & Telehandlers Parts.

Accordingly, all JLG agriculture telehandlers are backed by comprehensive warranty coverage:

  • 1-year coverage for materials and workmanship from the date of dealer purchase
  • 2-year/2,000-hour drivetrain coverage from the original purchase date
  • 5-year coverage for select structural components from the date of dealer purchase
  • Optional extended warranties are available

“Therefore, at JLG, we understand that reliability extends beyond the equipment — it’s about providing unwavering support to our dealers when they need it most,” says Rainer.

He finishes: “We’re actively expanding our network of dedicated dealers — seeking out partners who share our commitment to customer success and industry-leading support after the sale. If you’re a dealer who values reliability, service and long-term relationships, now is the time to join us. At JLG, we stand behind our agriculture products and support those who sell them.”

JLG Manufacturer of Mobile Work Platforms & Telehandlers Parts. For more information about JLG Agriculture telehandlers or becoming a JLG Agriculture dealer, visit jlgagriculture.com.

About JLG
At JLG Industries, Inc. is a world-leading designer, manufacturer, and marketer of access equipment. The Company’s diverse product portfolio includes leading brands.  Such as JLG ® mobile elevating work platforms; JLG ® and SkyTrak ® telehandlers and rotary telehandlers.  And an array of complementary accessories that can increase the versatility and efficiency of these products. JLG is an Oshkosh Corporation business [NYSE: OSK]. For more information about JLG Industries, Inc., visit www.jlg.com, or find us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube.

About Oshkosh Corporation
At Oshkosh (NYSE: OSK), we make innovative, mission-critical equipment to help everyday heroes advance communities around the world. Headquartered in Wisconsin, Oshkosh Corporation employs approximately 15,000 team members worldwide.  All members are united behind a common cause: to make a difference in people’s lives. Oshkosh products can be found in more than 150 countries under the brands of JLG ® , Hinowa, Pierce ® , MAXIMETAL, Oshkosh ® Defense, McNeilus ® , IMT ® , Jerr-Dan ® , Frontline ™ Communications, Oshkosh ® Airport Products and Pratt Miller. For more information, visit oshkoshcorp.com.

®, ™ All brand names referred to in this news release are trademarks of Oshkosh Corporation or its subsidiary companies.

Forward Looking Statements
This news release contains statements that the Company believes to be “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements other than statements of historical fact, including, without limitation, statements regarding the Company’s future financial position, business strategy, targets, projected sales, costs, earnings, capital expenditures, debt levels and cash flows, and plans and objectives of management for future operations, are forward-looking statements.

When used in this news release, words such as “may,” “will,” “expect,” “intend,” “estimate,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “should,” “project,” “confident” or “plan” or the negative thereof or variations thereon or similar terminology are generally intended to identify forward-looking statements.

These forward- looking statements are not guarantees of future performance. They are subject to risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors, some of which are beyond the Company’s control.  Which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These factors include the possibility that the parties will fail to obtain necessary regulatory approvals or to satisfy any of the other conditions to the proposed transaction; potential negative effects relating to the announcement of the proposed transaction; failure to realize the expected benefits of the transaction or expected synergies; difficulties in predicting results of operations of an acquired business; the cyclical nature of the Company’s access equipment, fire apparatus, refuse and recycling collection and air transportation equipment markets. 

Which are particularly impacted by the strength of U.S. and European economies and construction seasons.  The Company’s estimates of access equipment demand which, among other factors, is influenced by historical customer buying patterns and rental company fleet replacement strategies; the strength of the U.S. dollar and its impact on Company exports, translation of foreign sales and the cost of purchased materials; risks related to the collectability of receivables, particularly for those businesses with exposure to construction markets; risks associated with international operations and sales, including compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act; and risks related to the Company’s ability to successfully execute on its strategic road map and meet its long-term financial goals and other risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors impacting future results of the Company.

GopherGeneral Takes Mounds out of Alfalfa

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GopherGeneral Takes Mounds out of Alfalfa

Farmers and ranchers, who plant alfalfa and pasture forage seem to constantly be battling the pocket gopher, a burrowing rodent that can cause incredible damage to both dryland and irrigated crops. In addition, damage to equipment also occurs during hay harvest as the equipment cuts into the mounds. At the same time, a lot of hay is exported from the U. S. to other countries. If dirt from the pocket gopher mounds gets into the hay, these countries can refuse those shipments. Controlling these rodents is easier said than done and can be both expensive and time consuming. Many management techniques ranging from trapping, to fumigating, to flooding, to poison have been tried with various degrees of success.

However, over the past 10 years, a new product has come on the market that is successfully revolutionizing the way to control and perhaps even eliminate these burrowing rodents. Called the Gopher General (www.gophergeneral.com), it is a patented pull behind machine with a 20-inch diameter disk followed by a shank and torpedo that create a tunnel into which slow release fumigant tablets are safely placed and then sealed in the soil with two pneumatic packer wheels angled together. The sealed gas remains for several days and is lethal on the rodents. Murray Pask, inventor and designer of the Gopher General, says, “The Gopher General was born of necessity. Over 2,000 acres of our family farm (near Atwater, Saskatchewan) is planted to alfalfa, and we needed something that provided good gopher control, was cost effective, using minimum labor. Nothing we tried met our needs. The end result is the Gopher General.

A little history

Pask grew up on the family farm but left to earn two degrees in Mechanical Engineering. However, by 1971, he was headed back to the farm. “I was born to be a farmer and raise my family on the land.” The Pask family takes great pride in the farm. “It is the core of what makes all of this possible. Some of the land we farm has been in our family over 100 years. The fields are rotated through other crops, but the focus is always on bringing each field back into alfalfa seed production.” As a result, there has been an ongoing battle with pocket gophers: they are drawn to the nutrient value of the alfalfa plant’s root system.

Pask battled them the traditional way: trapping, fumigating, baiting and even designing pull behind machinery. “We started starting to use a 3-point burrow building machine to meter the slow release fumigant tablets. It worked so poorly we almost gave up. However, we knew that the slow release tablets worked. So, we kept trying to design better machines.”

Finally, in 2010, Pask built the first prototype that really worked and became the first Gopher General. “A friend of mine still has it. In 2012, we made more improvements and built six. These machines are in Saskatchewan, Washington and Nebraska. This year we built 10 Gopher Generals with the goal of strategically introducing them across the United States. From our experience, we think they will work anywhere there are pocket gophers.”

A look at the data

Being analytical, Pask crunches the numbers. What are the results? What constitutes success? “Each spring and fall we drive the fields looking for new mounds. When new mounds appear, the Gopher Generalis dropped into the ground. It makes the tunnel, places fumigant tablets in the tunnel and seals up the cut in the soil.”

A follow-up trip to the field a week later will show the results. “For us, success is when there are no new mounds 95 percent of the time. I take a look at labor cost, machinery cost and fumigant tablet cost. When we first started, we were using $10 of tablets per acre. Now our annual cost is between $1 to $2. When we add in the cost of the man and tractor, our total cost is well below $10 per acre to control gophers all year. Initially, I figured it cost us $25 per acre, then it dropped to $10 per acre by 2013 and now it’s down to $6 per acre.” That’s a pretty efficient use of time, machinery and cost of tablets.

Benefits of the Gopher General

  • • No more tedious hand work trapping
  • • No more baits that don’t work
  • • Less cutting breakdowns
  • • No more dirt in the windrow
  • • Smooth fields—faster operation
  • • Even alfalfa stand
  • • Best of All—No More Dirt in the Bale

How the Gopher General works

First off, no huge tractor is needed. Simply a 50 hp drawbar tractor with an alternator putting out 35 amps and one hydraulic circuit is needed. All three systems work with a hydraulic accumulator system.

To protect against rocks and foreign objects, Gopher General is designed so that the disk will ride up as much as 14” to ride over rocks and then re-enter the ground automatically. The shank and torpedo will pivot up and back to clear itself, while the packer wheels move independent to the shank and move up and down. For safety, the fumigant tablets are poured into an enclosed hopper at the start of treating a field so that exposure to the fumigant is limited to the start and end of the process.

Secondly, a sealed tunnel keeps the fumigant in the ground. A disk enters the ground first, cutting a deep slit through plant roots in the soil. This is followed by a shank that cuts clean making an artificial tunnel about 12” below the surface. The fumigant tablets are metered from the hopper into a venturi air stream and an electric fan provides the air blast which transports the tablets down the back of the shank and out the rear of the torpedo. For safety, fumigant tablets only meter when the torpedo is at full working depth.

The silt in the ground is sealed by the two pneumatic packer wheels. Since the fumigant gas released is heavier than air, it remains below ground. It is not detected by the gophers and remains effective for several days.

To watch the Gopher General in action, check out the video on the website: www.gophergeneral.com.

It works

It’s pretty obvious that Murray Pask believes in the Gopher General, but so do other producers. Here is what one of his farmer customers, who has had one since 2016, from the state of Washington has to say: “Best gopher control I’ve ever seen. Our cost per acre has gone down after the first season of use. Just added a second machine to cover all our ground.” (M.B. – Walla Walla, Washington)

A second customer says, “Over the years we have tried various methods for controlling pocket gophers on our alfalfa fields including trapping, blasting the tunnels with a propane/oxygen mix and forcing anhydrous ammonia into the runs. None of these techniques have been as effective or as easy to use as this machine. I would definitely recommend it.” (G. W. -Pilger, Saskatchewan)

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