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. New Holland CR 9000 Series

Reading Time: < 1 minute If you want to talk big, you must talk New Holland. The company already builds both conventional combines (the CX8000 series) and twin rotor designs (the CR9000 Elevation series). Now, it has introduced the highest-capacity combine in the world, the new CR9090. The CR9090 has 544 hp at rated engine speed, with a maximum harvest […] Read more
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. Gleaner A6 Series And R6 Series Combines

Reading Time: < 1 minute “We’re all about simplicity,” says Kevin Bien, the combine marketing specialist from Gleaner. Gleaner offers the A6 series, A66 (300 hp), A76 (350 hp) and A86 (425 hp). It also has the R6 series, R66 (300 hp) and the R76 (350 hp), which are “transverse combines” with the rotor parallel to the grain head. The […] Read more
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. John Deere 70 Series STS Combines

Reading Time: < 1 minute John Deere’s 70 series represents a 15 per cent efficiency boost over the previous 60 series John Deere combines. This efficiency boost comes from several areas of combine evolution. There is an updated feeder house, which features a front drum that is integrated with a floating mid-farm assembly, providing 20 per cent more clearance area. […] Read more
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. Protect Your Tires In No Till – for Mar. 22, 2010

Reading Time: < 1 minute Protecting your tire or track investment is important in no-till applications. As just one example, today’s new biotech corn hybrids leave quite a strong stalk after harvest. Running through them when seeding the following spring or for any other tillage application can be hard on your tractor tires or tracks. At the Louisville show, May […] Read more
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. See What Matters – for Mar. 22, 2010

Reading Time: < 1 minute We’ve all experienced the frustration. You need to see something in a tough spot. There’s an internal valve that needs adjusting or a clamp that needs tightening, or you need to know if a line is gummed up. But how can you see it without pulling your machine apart? Video Borescopes from A & I […] Read more
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New Mid-Size Challengers

Reading Time: < 1 minute Challenger used Louisville to unveil its new MT585B (165-hp) and the MT595B (180-hp) tractors. The tractors, with the new Techstar CVT (Continuous Variable Transmission) transmission, are a major expansion of the company s mid-range MT500B tractor line. According to Challenger, The Techstar CVT transmission has the fewest number of moving parts of any stepless or […] Read more
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Protect Your Tires In No Till

Reading Time: < 1 minute Protecting your tire or track investment is important in no-till applications. As just one example, today s new biotech corn hybrids leave quite a strong stalk after harvest. Running through them when seeding the following spring or for any other tillage application can be hard on your tractor tires or tracks. At the Louisville show, […] Read more
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. See What Matters

Reading Time: < 1 minute We ve all experienced the frustration. You need to see something in a tough spot. There s an internal valve that needs adjusting or a clamp that needs tightening, or you need to know if a line is gummed up. But how can you see it without pulling your machine apart? Video Borescopes from A […] Read more
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Shopping Around

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Reading Time: 6 minutes A complete set of wrenches seems as essential to farming as owning a tractor. Skinned knuckles from using them is proof you work smart. But, asks Michael Bevans (above left), is your shop actually good for your business? Why ask dumb questions? Of course doing your own maintenance and repairs makes you a better farmer. […] Read more
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Manitoba’s Kroeker family has proved that an efficient new shop doesn’t have to mean an expensive new building too

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Reading Time: 11 minutes There are some things you never forget. “It was the day before we were planning to go out and start seeding,” recounts Dave Kroeker from his farm at Killarney, just north of the U. S. border in south-central Manitoba. “It was April 26, 2006.” Like any spring, Dave had been doing some last-minute work in […] Read more

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