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AGCO’s new “IDEAL” combine will debut in Germany in November. Built on a global platform, it will incorporate the highest level of digital technology of any combine to ever wear MF, Challenger or Fendt nameplates.
Machinery, Machinery Guide

Dawn of the ‘smart’ combine

Automated and self-adjusting threshing systems become the norm

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Combine manufacturers have made giant strides toward machine automation. Yes, there still needs to be an operator in the cab (and we’re likely some distance away from changing that), but a growing number of today’s combines are making their own decisions about how to adjust their operations on the go for maximum threshing efficiency and […] Read more
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Hanson Acres: He’ll huff and he’ll puff…

There’s another decision to make every day on the farm, and Connor wants this one made in a hurry

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Reading Time: 4 minutes As soon as the driver pulled open the door, seven-year-old Connor flew out of the school bus and raced full speed toward the Hanson’s house. He took the front steps two at a time, until he was caught by surprise when his father Jeff opened the house door from the inside just as Connor had […] Read more
With the new CVXDrive CVT transmission, Steigers can move as slowly as three feet per minute, and the brand endorses using tractors equipped with it for installing drainage tile.
Machinery, Machinery Guide

Case IH shifts gears

New transmissions debut in the Steiger and Maxxum tractor lines

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Cole Carling, marketing manager for Case IH Maxxum and Puma tractors, was telling our group of farm machinery writers what’s going to be different in the 2018 Maxxum tractors we’ll see rolling off assembly lines starting this fall. Carling was talking to us in Boone, Iowa in August, and said, “We’re introducing new styling… It’s […] Read more
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Hanson Acres

Hanson Acres: The family looks to pull through

Dale acknowledged it: “This hasn’t been the year I expected.”

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Reading Time: 5 minutes The Hansons were nearly finished harvest by early September. “Haven’t been done this early in years,” Dale said to his wife Donna while they finished their toast. “It’s faster when there’s not as much to bring in,” Donna replied, finishing her coffee and getting up to put their breakfast dishes in the dishwasher. “You’ve got […] Read more
The PPS, a two-row single-pass planter designed on a Canadian farm, is capable of handling a wide range of seed types.
Machinery, Machinery Guide

Right from the farm

Farmer-owned Capricorn Bay bridges the planter-drill divide

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Reading Time: 4 minutes The Prince family runs a large-scale family farm in southwestern Manitoba, where for years they have wished for a single, effective piece of seeding equipment that they could use for all of their crops. Now, they’ve turned that dream into a market-ready implement and a fledgling equipment brand. Their on-farm creation, the PPS planter, can […] Read more
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Hanson Acres: The family takes a look around

With the crop ready to come off, it’s time to make the kinds of decisions only farmers have to make

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Reading Time: 4 minutes On his first day swathing canola, Jeff was surprised when he checked the time on his phone and realized he’d accidentally finished his lunch before 10:30 a.m. “Have to adjust to the harvest schedule,” he thought. With his lunch finished, the GPS finally auto-steering correctly, and the crop feeding through the swather — as Jeff’s […] Read more
Sprayers: The LS11 line of three-point hitch sprayers are available with tank capacities of up to 300 U.S. gallons and 40-foot booms.
Machinery, Machinery Guide

John Deere looks to 2018

New combines figure big in the green brand’s plan to get you buying

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Stretched out across the large grassy lawn in early June in front of John Deere’s Harvester Works in Moline, Illinois, was a broad assortment of equipment, with marketing staff showing off to the farm media from Canada and the U.S. what Deere would be adding to its product line for 2018. Several of the machines […] Read more
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Hanson Acres: The Hansons celebrate… and the neighbours join in too

Sometimes a secret is just too good to keep

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Reading Time: 4 minutes After an afternoon of lawn darts, frisbee, lounging in lawn chairs and drinking cold drinks, 31 members of the Hanson family and another 42 assorted friends and neighbours were sitting around borrowed tables on the Hansons’ lawn, digging into their buffet dinner of steak, baked potatoes, homemade buns, 11 different salads and hot dogs for […] Read more
K-Line manufacturing of Australia is making its first foray into the North American market with its Speedtiller disc.
Machinery, Machinery Guide

A new machinery brand for Canada

Australian manufacturer K-Line makes a big jump into the North American market

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Reading Time: 3 minutes If you were a farm equipment manufacturer in a country that is its own continent, where would you look to make your first expansion into the international market? For the Australian company K-Line, the choice was easy. Head to North America. “It’s really one of the best moves we’ve made, as far as our company […] Read more
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Hanson Acres: Counting the days to get into the field

On the farm, it isn’t so much when spring first comes, as when it stops going away

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Reading Time: 4 minutes When Jeff realized the tractor was slipping, the drill was already stuck, deep, and his first impulse was to curse. Loudly and profanely. His second impulse was to wonder if there was any way he could possibly keep his family from finding out. “You can’t take the drill out tomorrow,” Jeff’s father Dale had said […] Read more

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