Reading Time: 4 minutes Any farmer who’s ever worn a hat with a machinery-brand logo on it has likely heard of Belarus tractors, although that doesn’t mean all those farmers ever believed that Belarus really measured up to the top-selling North American-built machines, whether in green, red, blue or yellow. That’s fair enough, because right from their introduction to […] Read more
A new Tier 3 tractor
MTZ Equipment adds the aggressively priced, high-horsepower Kirovets tractors to its lineup
Sprayer speed a turbulent topic
As sprayers go faster, aerodynamics start to come into play. A PAMI project is evaluating if they affect spray deposition
Reading Time: 3 minutes On the surface, spraying seems straightforward. But a closer look at the multitude of factors that can influence how best to get product from the spray tank to the plant surface reveals something akin to a massive puzzle with a couple of pieces missing. One of the people trying to make that picture complete is […] Read more
Urban agriculture in Germany
Could Munich’s urban farm be a model for Canada, helping improve quality of life in our cities and narrow the urban-rural divide?
Reading Time: 6 minutes If you have never heard of the now-extinct Schlüter tractor brand, what you need to know is that the company produced some famously unique looking machines during its corporate life. Now, this was the first opportunity I’d ever had to see a working Schlüter tractor, and it came in a city — although still on […] Read more
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
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
Manage your farm fleet
The trucking industry is adopting technology to ramp up its strategic fleet management. Is it time for farmers to get on board too?
Reading Time: 6 minutes It’s standard now for truck companies to use GPS and sensors to track operations and vehicle maintenance from a central office. Driver performance gets recorded, efficiency gets analyzed and truck costs get scrutinized, not to mention all the stats that need to get pulled together for government paperwork in the transportation sector. On the farm, […] 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
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