Ep. 216 - John Deere’s New High-Speed Disk Lineup

Agriculture Technology Podcast

RDO Equipment Co.

Technology

4.2 • 48 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The new John Deere HSD series is built for speed, reliability and the future of farming — allowing growers to prep their farms for autonomous tillage and cover 400 acres a day. In this episode of the Agriculture Technology Podcast, host Tony Kramer sits down with Kory Ross, Group Product Marketing Manager at John Deere, to discuss upgrades to the 2680H tillage tool. From stronger frames and improved residue flow to plug-and-play autonomy features, the HSD lineup delivers major advancements for large-scale operations. Learn about size options, horsepower requirements and what makes these tools a smart investment for 2026 and beyond. What’s covered in this episode: How the HSD builds on the 2680H’s field performance Structural upgrades for durability and easy maintenance Crop flow improvements and size flexibility Autonomy-ready features designed for John Deere’s future equipment Tool and tractor pairing guidance For more information, visit JohnDeere.com or reach out to your local RDO Equipment Co. store

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Tony Kramer, your host of the Agriculture Technology podcast, and I'm sitting down with
0:07.5	agriculture technology and equipment experts to help you enhance your operation for today,
0:13.4	tomorrow, and into the future. In this episode, I talk with Corey Ross about the new John
0:20.0	Deere HSD or high-speed disc tillage tool lineup.
0:26.8	With that, let's dive into the show.
0:29.5	Like I said, we've got Corey Ross on the show.
0:33.0	Corey, before we get started, why don't you tell us a little bit about who you are, where you come from,
0:39.1	and what it is you do with John Deere. Well, good day. My name is Corey Ross. I am the group product
0:45.1	marketing manager for air seeding, tillage, and scrapers at John Deere. And I grew up in Indiana on a farm.
0:52.7	We had hogs and we grew corn and soybeans and have been with
0:58.0	John Deere for 21 years now. Really excited to share with you the updates about the new high-speed
1:03.5	disc. Well, welcome to the show, Corey. Great to hear the background you got growing up on a farm and where you are today.
1:13.0	Now, you said group marketing manager, so you are not only overseeing some of the tillage stuff,
1:19.4	but you've also got air seating and scrapers under your belt as well.
1:23.9	Yeah, it's exciting to have a broad range of products that are really delivering, you know, a good solution to our customers, whether they're, you know, in some of the road crop country with needing some tillage solutions or even in small grains country, they're doing a little bit more no-till solutions.
1:41.0	Kind of neat to be able to see both sides of it, the conventional till side as well as the
1:46.1	no-till on the small grains, large acreage air seating solution.
1:50.6	So let's dive into the high-speed disk or what we'll likely often refer to as the HSD.
2:01.4	This is not a brand new tool per se.
2:05.6	So let's go back and give a brief recap or overview of what we have as the 2680H.
2:15.3	You know, when John Deere came to market with that and then we'll kind of dive into
2:19.4	some of these updates that we know as the HSD. So we're building on the 2680H, which was introduced
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