New Holland Receives Two Silver Medals at Agritechnica Innovation Awards

New Holland has been awarded two Silver Medals at the Agritechnica Innovation Awards for its Corn Header Automation and ForageCam technologies. Agritechnica, the world’s largest farm equipment exhibition, will take place Nov. 9–15, 2025, in Hanover, Germany.

The company’s award-winning solutions are designed to automate key harvesting processes, reduce manual adjustments, improve efficiency and lower fuel consumption.

Corn Header Automation integrates artificial intelligence and automation into combine corn headers to improve harvesting performance. The system reduces crop losses, increases throughput and cuts fuel use by eliminating manual adjustments, offering consistent performance across varying conditions.

The technology incorporates advanced sensing and control systems to optimize harvesting in real time. Features include deck plate automation, which adjusts the gap between plates based on crop conditions, and stalk processing automation, which manages roll speed and header angle according to crop moisture and stalk condition. Multiple shatter sensors provide feedback for closed-loop header control, while ground speed matching synchronizes header processing with combine travel speed.

ForageCam, meanwhile, focuses on improving silage quality through real-time crop monitoring and automatic kernel processor adjustments. A spout-mounted camera analyzes crop flow images, detecting kernel fragments to calculate a Kernel Processing Score. Based on this feedback, the system automatically adjusts processing parameters to improve forage quality.

Complete kernel processing is vital to ensure livestock can access nutrients in silage, which directly supports milk and meat production. Traditionally, kernel processor settings have been made manually with delayed assessments, limiting the ability to influence forage quality during harvest. ForageCam’s automation represents a shift toward continuous monitoring and in-cab adjustment.

The technology will be available on New Holland Forage Harvesters starting in September 2026.