New suspensions from Claas and New Holland are among the recent upgrades and updates announced by tractor manufacturers.

New Holland Agriculture scooped four of this year’s 50 awards from the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE), for innovation in engineering for the food and agriculture industries.

A John Deere innovation is designed to help drivers of self-propelled forage harvesters achieve the near- “impossible” task of directing all the forage into the accompanying trailers — while coping with hilly terrain, wet soil and soft ground, lodged crop, obstacles, etc.