Reading Time: 2 minutes Haggerty AgRobotics won an equipment innovation award at Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show 2025 near Woodstock.
Electric tractor wins innovation award at Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show
Tractor, combine sales face downward trend
Sales of farm tractors and combines have declined over the last year in North America
Reading Time: 2 minutes Sales of combines are a handy gauge for farmer optimism. This winter, farmers weren’t feeling it.
New Massey Ferguson baler, Farmall tractor unveiled at 2025 National Farm Machinery Show
Reading Time: 2 minutes Day one of the 59th National Farm Machinery Show kicked off today in Louisville, Kentucky, and farm equipment manufacturers had a number of new items to capture the attention of visitors. Hesston by Massey Ferguson launched its new double small square baler on the show floor at a media event immediately after the show doors […] Read more
SDF to build low-horsepower tractors under Massey brand
Agco and SDF partner to expand MF tractor offerings up to 85 horsepower
Reading Time: < 1 minute Agco announced Wednesday that it and Italy-based SDF (Same-Deutz-Fahr) have signed a supply agreement. SDF will build a low-horsepower range of utility tractors for Agco’s Massey Ferguson brand.
Buhler Industries going private
Winnipeg tractor and implement maker will be delisted from the TSX
Reading Time: < 1 minute Winnipeg's Buhler Industries, which makes Versatile tractors, Farm King augers, and other farm implements, will be privately owned by a Turkish firm under a proposed deal.
Tractors of the year announced at EIMA agricultural machinery show
Reading Time: < 1 minute Day one of the EIMA international machinery show in Balogna, Italy, saw five tractor manufacturers take home awards for Tractor of the Year. There were six different categories in play – Fendt won in two categories – that ranged from horsepower to sustainability and a newly created category called 'TotyBot' for fully automated tractors without a cab.
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 Holland’s T9 tractor picks up speed, and more
Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s big, blue and likely to get the attention of farmers if they’re eyeing up a new tractor in 2024. At a National Farm Machinery Show pre-show media event in Louisville, Kentucky, on Feb. 13, New Holland product reps were on hand to show what the blue brand has in store for growers and show-goers […] Read more
Başak Traktör of Turkey looks to move Versatile brand forward
Buhler Industries announced the Turkish firm had bought its majority stake
Reading Time: 4 minutes “One of the keys for us was making sure we found a partner that was committed to preserving the Versatile and Farm King brands,” said Adam Reid, VP of sales and marketing at Versatile. “We wanted to make sure the viability of the plant here in Winnipeg and our staff was secure. And taking care of all of our stakeholders, the suppliers, shareholders.”
Tractors continue unusually strong sales in November
Many types of machinery have seen price hikes of around 30 per cent or more
Reading Time: 2 minutes The growing price of farm equipment is not dissuading farmers from buying new machinery, according to the latest data from the Association of Equipment Managers (AEM).
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