Fuel savings of up to 4%, with John Deere’s DirectDrive transmission, have been measured in test facilities and independent field tests, compared with currently available transmissions.

Another prestigious agricultural engineering award has gone to the John Deere DirectDrive transmission.

Controlling weeds with as little as 1-2% of the overall herbicide rate is the objective with spot spraying, used on one of the award-winning machines at last week’s Cereals 2014 event in England.