“It’s not a bespoke solution for just one operation,” he said. Schwager, president and co-founder of Monarch Tractors, said their tractors could also work well for dairies, rural lifestyle folks and grounds management. That’s what Mark Schwager said they’re focused on - food, not feed. “For some fruit and veg operators, for orchards making multiple trips through an orchard, and they don’t have the acreages where this will be in production mode 24 hours a day, it makes sense,” Shearer said. Shearer is waiting for farmers to get their hands on these tractors and test them in the field before making any judgements, but he said the run time and continuous horsepower capabilities could work well for specialty crop farms.
For tillage, you may need something that goes up to 600 horsepower. To compare, in America’s corn belt, most farms operating on several thousand acres use tractors in the 400 horsepower range, Shearer said.
TRACTOR PULLS FOR SALE GENERATOR
The tractor can also serve as a generator in the field. With a swappable battery, near-continuous operations are possible as charging time for batteries is between five and six hours.
The run time on one battery is between eight to 10 hours. The MK-V is advertised as having 40 horsepower continuous power with 70 horsepower peak power. “I don’t know that we’ll see it in the Midwest in row crop agriculture in corn and soybean production, but it’s going to find its home.” Features “I see a lot of potential with this tractor in several types of farming operations,” he said.
While the MK-V won’t work for all farming operations, it could be a game changer as electrification and autonomous equipment technology continue to shape the landscape of farming, said Ohio State University’s Scott Shearer, professor and chair in the department of the department of food, agricultural and biological engineering. California-based Monarch Tractors announced in August that its MK-V all-electric tractor would be produced, in Lordstown, Ohio, at the former General Motors plant now owned by Foxconn. The future of tractors is coming to Ohio.
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