Mike Gryp, district sales manager, with Kinze Mfg., highlights features of the company's new prototype split-row planter.

Kinze Mfg. displayed an advanced, patent pending prototype 60 foot planter at the 2017 Farm Progress Show offering improved safety and functionality for farmers with large field operations. 

The Des Moines Register reports attorneys for Kinze filed motions asking a federal judge to stop John Deere from trying to access a wide variety of internal documents about the Williamsburg company's planting equipment business, including marketing strategies, sales data and research and development plans.

Luc Van Herle, director of global sales with Kinze Mfg.

Kinze Mfg. debuts autonomous tractor and grain cart technology at Elliott Bros. farm in Monmouth, Ill. on September 19, 2012.