Reading Time: < 1 minute Michel Landry, field product specialist with Kubota, gives you a walk-around of the brand’s BV5160 baler at Ag in Motion, and talks about some of the features that help set it apart from other manufacturers on the market.
VIDEO: Kubota baler takes to the field at Ag in Motion
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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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So long AIM — it was another good run
Reading Time: 5 minutes It’s all over now except for the crying, folks. Ag In Motion (AIM) 2017 is history. And really the only crying that might be done, is by the dedicated volunteers and employees of the show who stay on the AIM grounds near Langham, SK for another 10 days to two weeks to clean up and[...]
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A message from April Stewart, Country Guide's Associate Editor
