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Salford introduced a prototype 20-ton air boom spreader during Canada’s Farm Progress Show in Regina in June.
Machinery, Machinery Guide

Spreading it around

New fertilizer applicators rush onto the market

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Reading Time: 4 minutes In 2016, farmers were introduced to several new machines capable of meeting their fertilizer spreading needs. Among them was the new self-propelled F4365 spinner-spreader from John Deere, a high-capacity machine designed primarily for large operators and custom applicators. The F4365 sports a 330-cubic foot New Leader dry spreader box, and can apply up to 1,100 […] Read more
John Deere plans to introduce a carbon fibre sprayer boom to the North American market within the next couple of years.
Machinery, Machinery Guide

The machines, they are a changin’

Farm machinery is undergoing a historic period of evolution, with rapid changes that will soon show up in your sheds

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Earlier this fall, it was announced that Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature. I have to admit, I didn’t see that coming. Not to take anything away from his talent, it’s just that I wouldn’t have expected to hear he had won that kind of award, any more than I would have expected […] Read more
Operating on their own, these autonomous tractors will help eliminate the on-farm labour crunch.
Machinery, Machinery Guide

The ag-robots are here

Get set for the biggest change since the invention of the tractor

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Standing in front of a fully autonomous T8 tractor, New Holland’s vice-president, Bret Lieberman summed up what the company is telling its people in just two sentences at this year’s U.S. Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa. “This industry has evolved considerably over the last 100 years,” Lieberman said. “I don’t think that any of […] Read more
Robert Ciecko, vice-president of Hesston manufacturing, discusses the assembly procedure for these Massey Ferguson swathers while guiding journalists through the hay tool and combine assembly plant.
Machinery

The four Ms get down to work

AGCO’s Robert Ciecko shares his strategy for winning with lean manufacturing in agriculture

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Reading Time: 5 minutes While touring the assembly lines at AGCO’s huge combine and hay-tool plant at Hesston, Kansas, I admit I stopped counting how many workers were greeted by name by Robert Ciecko as he guided our group. But I didn’t stop being impressed by how, at virtually every station, waves came from the workers, or at least […] Read more
China’s Zoomlion brand had a large display at Agritechnica in Germany in November. The company is hoping to expand into new world markets.
Guide Business, Machinery Guide

Make room. There’s another farm equipment manufacturer in town

Is there really enough market for two more full-line farm equipment manufacturers?

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Reading Time: 6 minutes In a second floor conference room at the Hanover fairgrounds in Germany during the Agritechnica machinery expo in November, a panel of experts got together to present their individual views on the present and future of the agricultural machinery market around the globe. Despite the fact world demand for new machinery has slowed significantly, optimism […] Read more
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Crops

Input costs to chip away at farmers’ shrinking income

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — An anticipated downturn in farm income and higher input costs mean Canadian producers will be in a tough financial position this year, the head of the National Farmers Union (NFU) predicts. Farmers’ net cash income is expected to move lower in 2016, declining nine per cent to $13.6 billion in 2016, according […] Read more
The Airseed Hoppers may be a great idea, but what makes it a great business are business skills and energy, says Kevin Lisafeld (r), who is now passing those skills on to son Brad as well as to long-term employee Cory Lischka (l).
Crops, Management

Forty years of farming requires a spirit for change

It turns out that successful diversification depends on the mindset you bring to it

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Reading Time: 5 minutes When Kevin Lisafeld was still a teenager, his mother, Evelyn, told him not to put all his eggs in one basket. That advice has served him well during a 40-year career as a farmer and businessman. But success doesn’t come from diversifying for the sake of diversification. Lisafeld has learned how to spot an opportunity, […] Read more
Machinery

Machinery Guide

Which are better - planters or drills?

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Reading Time: 3 minutes January is a month for new starts, so it fits neatly with this issue’s focus on planters. Improved seed singulation and precision planting capabilities have driven planter sales in the past two years, not to mention the migration of corn into Western Canada. Even so, the debate is still raging. Which are better — planters […] Read more

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