VIDEO: Prairie crop tour harvest forecast

VIDEO: Prairie crop tour harvest forecast

Reading Time: < 1 minute Lisa Guenther, field editor with Country Guide, talks with Bruce Burnett of Glacier FarmMedia at last month’s Ag in Motion, about the recent crop tour he took across the Prairies and which areas he saw most impacted by drought and which provinces are most likely to kick off harvest 2018.



VIDEO: Bringing the Ag in Motion farm project to life

VIDEO: Bringing the Ag in Motion farm project to life

Reading Time: < 1 minute Lisa Guenther, field editor with Country Guide, talks with Dan Kuchma of Glacier FarmMedia about the Ag in Motion farm project, an area of land dedicated to testing new machinery, the latest crop inputs and some of the partnerships involved that helped make the project a reality.

Brett Kissel performed July 17 at Ag in Motion as part of the Field of STARS fundraising event. (FarmBoy Productions photo by Bruce Sargent)

Ag in Motion sets single-day record

Reading Time: 2 minutes Glacier FarmMedia’s outdoor farm show Ag in Motion has wrapped its 2018 edition and booked a single-day record for attendance. The show, held July 17-19 near Langham, Sask., northwest of Saskatoon, reported three-day attendance of 30,355, including record attendance of 11,425 on the Wednesday. That single-day gate included more attendees than the three-day total for […] Read more


Fencing demos at Ag in Motion

Fencing demos at Ag in Motion

Reading Time: < 1 minute Michael Hargrave, livestock co-ordinator for Ag in Motion, talks about what attendees can expect to see at the daily fencing demo (9:30 am) at the Ag in Motion show, July 17-19 north of Saskatoon.

DOT electronics take charge of its 163 horsepower Cummins diesel with hydrostatic drive system.

The breakthrough in farm machinery

Could this field robot be the tipping point in equipment design?

Reading Time: 5 minutes It left me saying to myself, “Get your head around that!” There was no real doubt about it, after all. The industry’s biggest surprise this summer was the out-of-the-blue introduction at the Ag in Motion farm show near Saskatoon in July of SeedMaster’s autonomous new implement carrier, dubbed the DOT. Not only is the DOT […] Read more


Dieci Agri Tech 35.7 VS

Dieci Agri Tech 35.7 VS

One of the two telehandlers Grainews put to the test this year was the Dieci Agri Tech 35.7 VS. It’s a hybrid design meant to appeal to farmers, with a rear PTO, hydraulic remotes (two on our test machine) and a three-point hitch. It comes in at a price point lower than the Merlo, with[...]
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Kubota SSV 75 skid steer

Kubota SSV 75 skid steer

Most farmers are no strangers to a skid steer loader. There are several makes and models popular with farmers on the market now, so we included Kubota’s largest model, the SSV 75, in our test group. We wanted to see how it stacks up not only to other skids steers but where it lands in[...]
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Merlo Multifarmer 40.9

Merlo Multifarmer 40.9

Of the two telehandlers tested in the Grainews Machinery Challenge, the Merlo Multifarmer 40.9 stood out as the most capable and highly optioned. And with that honour, as you’d expect, it had the highest MSRP of any machine in the group, $241,800 as equipped with the grapple and over $60,000 of other included options. The[...]
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Giant V761T Tele

Giant V761T Tele

Certainly not yet a household name here, the Dutch company Giant is looking to expand its presence in the western Canadian market, and it wants farmers to consider its machines for ag use. The machine we tested was the V761T Tele. It’s window sticker MSRP was $168,000, but was offered at a show special of[...]
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