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A new range of high-spec tractors offering 90 to 125 engine horsepower will debut in green paint this year.
Machinery, Machinery Guide

New from John Deere

The green brand offers a glimpse of what’s to come in 2017

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Next month, John Deere will host a formal event to pull the wraps off several new additions to its equipment line. What will be under the covers? In February, at the National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville, Kentucky, the brand teased showgoers by unveiling a couple of new products that are bound to be included […] Read more
Salford introduced a prototype 20-ton air boom dry-product applicator at Canada’s Farm Progress Show in Regina.
Machinery, Machinery Guide

Ag-market sees new interest in dry-product spreaders

New machines designed to broadcast dry fertilizer are hitting dealerships for the 2017 season

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Reading Time: 5 minutes For years, one-pass seeding systems that incorporate fertilizer application with the seeding pass had producers turning their backs on dry spreader systems. Many older designs of spinner spreaders lacked the precision that producers could now get from direct-seeding systems. But the logistical demands of getting everything done in one seeding pass have a few growers […] Read more
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Hanson Acres

Hanson Acres: All dressed up, and someplace to go

The first fine day of a Canadian spring can only mean one thing

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Donna was sorry to hear about her aunt Evelyn’s death. “Even when she had to live in that nursing home, Aunt Evelyn always had something good to say,” Donna said to her mother over the phone. “She had a lot of lemons to make lemonade with,” Donna’s mother said. “But remember, she was 93. We […] Read more
Rocky Mountain Equipment’s flagship store in High River, Alta., is the model that executives hope will eventually be mirrored
at all the company’s locations.
Machinery, Machinery Guide

Rocky Mountain looks for more

As Canada’s largest ag dealership chain turns 10, Country Guide sits down with its senior executives to look at how it got here, and where it’s going

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Suspicion. Unease. Uncertainty. They were all sweeping across the West a decade ago when farmers began seeing their local Case IH and New Holland dealerships get gobbled up by a new and unfamiliar company. Then they started hearing the name — Rocky Mountain Equipment — but that didn’t help. Except as the outsiders buying their […] Read more
The MARS research project uses swarms of small autonomous robots to seed fields.
Machinery, Machinery Guide

Heading to MARS

This new ag robot concept uses swarms of small machines

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Reading Time: 2 minutes A new research project underway in Europe may give farmers a reason to think swarms are a good thing. Far from swarms of locusts or other troublesome pests, the MARS (Mobile Agricultural Robot Swarms) pro­ject is working on creating swarms of small, autonomous robots that can seed farm fields on their own. The MARS project […] Read more
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Hanson Acres

Hanson Acres: All down the generations

“Sometimes,” said Ed, “an old man has to just sit back and pretend not to mind what happens.”

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Jeff was boiling water for tea while Elaine sorted out the last of the papers, still warm from the printer. Jeff’s parents, Dale and Donna, had just walked over from their house across the yard and were settling into chairs around the dining room table. Six-year-old Connor shouted out from his bedroom. “Mommy, I’m thirsty.” […] Read more
The retro Versatile colours are attracting widespread notice, just as the company planned.
Machinery, Machinery Guide

The paint does matter

Versatile draws on inspiration from its past to position itself for future growth

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Reading Time: 5 minutes It isn’t much of a surprise when Versatile shows up for the annual Manitoba Ag Days. The show, after all, is just two hours from the Versatile factory, so the company’s regular attendance is pretty much a given. Local farmers expect to see the brand put in an appearance there every year, and they’re never […] Read more
Two new Can Am Defender Max models offer a rear bench seat, boosting capacity to up to six adults.
Machinery, Machinery Guide

Can Am’s new UTVs

The brand is following through on a commitment to add new machines to its product line twice a year

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Reading Time: 3 minutes BRP, the company behind the Can Am line of products, has expanded the choice of Defender Max UTVs for 2017 with the addition of two new machines, bringing the total number of Max models to four. The company says the Defender Max UTVs are “pickup truck-inspired” and will now offer seating for up to six adults. […] Read more
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Hanson Acres: A thump in the night

Most times, the rural countryside lives up to its peaceful old stereotypes

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Reading Time: 5 minutes “Late winter storms are always the worst,” Jeff told Elaine over the phone. “It’s warm enough to melt, but cold enough to freeze. Makes the roads icy. And the snow is really pouring down.” “We’ll be fine,” Elaine said. “Really, it’s not that I want to stay here,” Jeff said, for the third time. Elaine […] Read more
Salford introduced a prototype 20-ton air boom spreader during Canada’s Farm Progress Show in Regina in June.
Machinery, Machinery Guide

Spreading it around

New fertilizer applicators rush onto the market

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Reading Time: 4 minutes In 2016, farmers were introduced to several new machines capable of meeting their fertilizer spreading needs. Among them was the new self-propelled F4365 spinner-spreader from John Deere, a high-capacity machine designed primarily for large operators and custom applicators. The F4365 sports a 330-cubic foot New Leader dry spreader box, and can apply up to 1,100 […] Read more

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