Reading Time: 3 minutes Back in early 1970, International Harvester released two tractors that made up what it called its Worldwide Series. The idea was to use shared platforms to build tractors that could appeal to farmers in every market where the brand had a presence. They would meet a global need — or that was the hope. Standardized […] Read more
Farm tractors with global design in mind
AGCO’s new MF utility tractors are designed for worldwide appeal
A new era on the farm begins
We’re living at the dawn of the robot as hired farmhand
Reading Time: 6 minutes A friend has been keeping me posted by email about her trouble finding a full-time employee for the family farm in Saskatchewan. If it didn’t represent such a serious problem for the operation, the details would actually be pretty funny. A few — how do I say it? — less-than-adequate applicants are all her efforts […] Read more
Farm machinery goes where politicians fear to tread
Reading Time: 5 minutes A couple of interesting and potentially surprising announcements arose in January from DLG, the German Agricultural Society, which organizes the world’s largest farm machinery show called Agritechnica. First, DLG revealed it is creating an independent subsidiary organization in Russia. Second, it announced it had reached an agreement with the Iranian Ministry of Agriculture to help […] Read more
Vaderstad planter sets a new Tempo
Vaderstad introduces new models of its Tempo high-speed planters
Reading Time: 3 minutes Sweden’s Vaderstad is adding to its Tempo line of high-speed planters with two new versions that are destined for dealer lots in Canada. Mounted via a three-point-hitch, the new Tempo V planter is available in seven different models with working widths from 4.2 to 6.6 metres. The largest version is available as a 12-row, or […] Read more
Case IH planter goes high speed
Introducing an all-new, higher-speed version of the Early Riser planter
Reading Time: 3 minutes For the last generation of planter designers, the goal has been clear. It’s been to achieve ever-higher ground speeds while still seeding the crop with perfect uniformity of depth and spacing. The dream is understandable. A machine that goes faster will cover more acres in a day, which in turn has got to be a […] Read more
A return to tractor marketing
There are gaps in tractor assembly lines again, and manufacturers are looking to marketers to fill them
Reading Time: 5 minutes It was a rare sight to see this tractor return to the factory where it had been built nearly four decades earlier. But that was exactly what I saw while standing inside the R&D facility at Versatile’s Winnipeg tractor assembly plant earlier this winter. The one-off prototype model 1080 tractor, which became affectionately known as […] Read more
ElectricPOWER your farm implements?
These 700-volt systems may be the kickstart the industry needs
Reading Time: 3 minutes For a group of young boys standing around the Fendt display at the Agritechnica machinery expo in Hanover, Germany, earlier this winter, the prototype model Former 12555X electric hay rake on show was a little like a video game. By sliding a finger across a screen, they could use the touch pad computer on the […] Read more
Here’s how German machinery company Rauch is winning
Moving onto a former Canadian military base in Germany is only one in a series of smart decisions by this machinery shortliner
Reading Time: 7 minutes It was to be our second stop that day on a week-long media tour that was winding its way through Germany. We were visiting a long list of German machinery manufacturers, and it was dark when we pulled up to fertilizer spreader manufacturer Rauch’s assembly plant adjacent to the Baden airport. It was clear the […] Read more
More forage machinery options for producers
These new concept machines will mean more harvesting choices for forage growers
Reading Time: 3 minutes The giant German farm machinery expo Agritechnica is a glimpse into the future, giving farmers a look at the equipment they’ll be filling their machinery sheds with in coming years. That includes forage growers. If the machines on display this past November are any indication, they can expect a tidal wave of innovations. Krone’s Premos […] Read more
Farm machinery gets political
AGCO chief Martin Richenhagen fields unusual questions at a corporate press conference in Germany
Reading Time: 6 minutes Suddenly the discussion became political, turning AGCO’s Fendt-brand press conference during last November’s Agritechnica machinery show in Hanover, Germany, into one of the most unique I can remember attending. Standing on stage with a German journalist who was acting as event host, AGCO CEO and president Martin Richenhagen eventually found himself talking about larger political […] Read more
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