Tires Help Overcome Herbicide Challenges 

Supplies of herbicides with the main active ingredient glyphosate have tightened, which has caused prices of in-stock supplies to skyrocket. Glyphosate has been the most widely used herbicide in the United States since 2001 and is predicted to remain in short supply throughout the spraying season. This will force farmers to make some tough decisions, in particular those farmers who plant glyphosate-ready crops, who have no-till systems, and who use glyphosate to terminate cover crops. They’ll either end up paying jaw-dropping prices—if they can even find glyphosate-based herbicide, that is—or changing the way they manage weeds. 

One factor you can count on no matter how farmers handle the shortage of glyphosate is the significant role tires will play.  

Maintenance Tips to Improve Winter Tractor Tire Life 

Tractor tires are designed to take a lot of punishment, but winter dishes out some unique challenges to even the toughest-built tires. Whether your tractor and its tires stay busy all winter long or hibernate in the barn, there are a handful of steps you can take to increase their longevity and maximize your investment in them.

What Factors to Consider When Selecting a Wheel Loader Tire 

Wheel loaders, also commonly called front-end loaders and bucket loaders, are common in industries ranging from construction to material handling. Wheel loaders are tough on tires; on any given day, you’ll find them slamming into piles of gravel and soil, pivoting with heavy loads of rock or snow, traversing scrapyards and waste handling facilities, or enduring the dynamic forces of heavy buckets being raised and lowered.

Tractors and the Evolution of Ag Tires

One of the most significant changes to farming in the last century has been the advent and adoption of the tractor and the subsequent entrance into the mechanical age of farming. Tractors ended farmers’ reliance on animals for labor—according to the U.S. Department of Commerce, in 1920 America had 25 million horses and mules, most of which were used for farm work. Tractors steal the spotlight now, but innovations such as computerized controls, smart sensors, and telematics have helped push them to the forefront of farming—continually improving their performance and evolving alongside them as they have grown over the years in size, speed, and power.

Engineered to Keep You Running 

From floater tires to narrow row crop tires and everything in between, Yokohama Off-Highway Tires America, Inc. is the complete co-op tire supplier. With the wide range of Alliance brand designs and sizes, we have tires for nearly any piece of equipment in your operation—floaters, high-clearance sprayers, anhydrous toolbars, nurse tanks, implements, and more. Here’s what our customers say about our tires.