Reading Time: 2 minutes Sales of combines are a handy gauge for farmer optimism. This winter, farmers weren’t feeling it.
Tractor, combine sales face downward trend
Sales of farm tractors and combines have declined over the last year in North America
Combine market holding, for now
Reading Time: 2 minutes According to a recent news release from Alberta Agriculture and Irrigation, higher combine prices do not yet appear to have affected their sales in Canada.
Summer Series: Old machines,new technology
[Change Management] Can retrofit kits mean it’s cheaper and smarter to say no to trading in?
Reading Time: 7 minutes One of my first jobs was working as a mechanic’s helper at a farm equipment dealership in the late 1970s. Among my duties was using an F-250 Ford pickup and gooseneck deck trailer to pick up and deliver equipment. I even recall delivering a combine on that unit. Granted, it was a smaller, older machine […] Read more
New Massey Sprayer comes to NFMS, combines and grain carts get synchronized
Reading Time: 2 minutes Product offerings that simplify how farmers work in the field often get more than a cursory glance on the farm show floor. This is the case for two machinery manufacturers at the National Farm Machinery Show (NFMS) in Louisville, Kentucky. Day two of the NFMS saw Massey Ferguson debut its 500R sprayer to attendees, and […] Read more
Combines launch into the spotlight at National Farm Machinery Show
Reading Time: 2 minutes With over 800 exhibitors occupying more than a million square feet of space at the Kentucky Exposition Center, it’s pretty much A-Z when it comes to the display of agricultural wares at this year’s National Farm Machinery Show. Two well-known machinery brands took this opportunity to pull back the curtain and showcase their latest offerings […] Read more
Agritechnica wrap-up: New combines, tractors and industry trends
Reading Time: < 1 minute Agritechnica is the world’s largest agriculture machinery show, drawing more than 400,000 people from around the world to Hannover, Germany. Glacier FarmMedia Senior Technology Editor John Greig was there and summarized the major product launches and some of the ag-tech industry trends he observed. – John Greig is a senior editor with Glacier FarmMedia. Watch for much […] Read more
Agritechnica update: Canadian content and a John Deere update
Reading Time: 2 minutes There’s significant Canadian content at Agritechnica. Large companies like AGI and MacDon have impressive displays with significant real estate. I also happened upon the Canada pavilion, packed with companies familiar to many of us, including Honey Bee, Mankato, Schulte and Bushel Plus. The companies say that there’s value in companies from Canada banding together to […] Read more
Agritechnica Day 1: Combine launches, giant power units
Reading Time: 2 minutes Agritechnica, the world’s largest farm machinery show is nothing like farm shows we see in North America. The equipment shines to a finer gleam, extreme care is paid to lighting – so much blue at New Holland, red at Case IH, green at John Deere and orange at Kubota. The show is huge – 27 […] Read more
At Ag in Motion: Combine settings app makes the world your neighbour
'Oh, have you tried this concave?'
Reading Time: 2 minutes Trevor Scherman and partner Megan Madden are making it easy for farmers to connect during harvest time to get the best settings for their combines. It’s an idea that Scherman says arose from the same philosophy as the ScherGain Solutions System he previously co-founded with his father. That system involves the use of a drop […] Read more
At Ag in Motion: Harvest weed control still in the mix
'You’re not going to spray your way out of this'
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s a relatively new solution to the age-old problem of trying to get rid of weeds without broadcasting the seed or using increasingly less effective herbicides — mechanical separation and pulverization of weed seed. Harvest weed seed control might not be a golden bullet to tackle glyphosate-, fluroxypyr- and dicamba-resistant weeds, but according to Agriculture […] Read more
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