Alliance’s Whole Farm Concept is a commitment to delivering a low-pressure tire solution for every piece of farm equipment that enters the field—from sprayers to combines and everything in between. The Whole Farm Concept helps farmers harvest the full potential of low-pressure tires by ensuring the benefits of machines equipped with them aren’t minimized by another piece of equipment operating with standard tires.
Alliance’s Whole Farm Concept is about delivering a variety of solutions—such as IF/VF and flotation tires—to help farmers fight soil compaction.
Low-pressure tires offer many benefits for farmers, including reducing soil compaction and increasing yields. Studies have shown that soil compaction can shrink yields by up to 15% in a single year and lead to diminished productivity for a decade. For example, a farmer averaging 200 bushel-per-acre corn yields could potentially bring in 230 bushels per acre if not for soil compaction. For a farmer working 1,000 acres of corn, this improvement adds up to 30,000 more bushels at the end of the season. At a conservative $4 a bushel, that’s $120,000! And, that’s just in the first year; reducing compaction can lead to 10 years of better yields.
Heavy, high-profile equipment like tractors, combines, and sprayers have historically been considered the primary culprits of compaction. However, compaction is caused by all kinds of machinery. Planters, drills, and all manner of other towed implements can create compaction, making it as critical to move them to low-pressure tires as it is the equipment towing them.
Innovative VF (very high flexion) tires are one of the best tools available to farmers for fighting soil compaction. What is a VF tire? At their most basic, VF tires are tires with very flexible sidewalls. When a VF tire is loaded, its sidewall bulges, its footprint expands, and the load it’s carrying is distributed over a larger area—minimizing soil compaction.
Thanks to their sophisticated sidewall construction, VF tires can carry the same load as a conventional radial tire at 40% less inflation pressure. This offers a significant advantage when you consider that, as a rule, the amount of ground pressure exerted by a tire is approximately equal to the pressure of its operational pressure.
Choosing the right tire for your farm equipment can pay significant dividends and, in many applications, VF tires deliver the largest advantage. Because of this, Yokohama Off-Highway Tires is dedicated to producing an Alliance Agriflex+ VF tire for every stage of the farm cycle under the Whole Farm concept.
As mentioned above, the Alliance Agriflex+ 354 is also commonly equipped on sprayers and offers a more traditional tread pattern option to equipment in this application.
The Alliance Agriflex+ 377 helps reduce the compaction caused by some of the heaviest equipment on the farm. The 377 is at home on both spreader trucks and sprayers, where it delivers fantastic traction and helps keep machines moving, improve productivity, and reduce soil compaction.
The Alliance Agriflex+ 381 and 881 help reduce soil damage caused by towed implements like planters, drills, balers, carts, and trailers.
One characteristic that helps Alliance VF tires stand apart from the competition is that they’re all steel-belted, which boosts the advantages already offered by VF tires. One of the primary benefits of steel-belted VF tires includes providing a flatter, more even footprint. This ensures the weight of equipment is spread uniformly across the tread of the tire and helps prevent soil compaction.
Another thing that farmers love about Alliance Agriflex tires is that they’re backed with a 10-year warranty. The warranty shows that Alliance is committed to not only delivering low-pressure tires for every stage of the farm cycle, but also to providing high-quality tires that farmers can trust.
• A 10-year warranty demonstrates Alliance’s commitment to delivering high-quality, low-pressure tires farmers can trust
• Special compounds formulated to enhance durability and extend tire life
• Versatility thanks to innovative tread patterns and premium construction which enable them to offer high performance in the field and on the road
• D Speed Rating makes them excellent on-road performers capable of traveling at speeds up to 40 mph
Contact your local dealer or Alliance representative to learn more about Yokohama Off-Highway Tires America’s Alliance brand’s extensive range of VF tires as well as the other low-pressure flotation and IF tire solutions that are part of our Whole Farm Concept.