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The online arm of Winnipeg ag journal publisher Farm Business Communications (FBC) is representing at this fall's Canadian Online Publishing Awards (COPAs). The COPAs, to be presented Nov. 7 in Toronto, are a juried competition to promote and support Canada's digital publishing industry, and are operated by Mississauga-based publishing sector magazine Masthead. Finalists for the[...]

Last year Agco announced it was "retiring" its SpraCoupe brand of sprayers, which catered to farmers who want smaller-sized application equipment. That left Agco with just its RoGator and TerraGator lines of higher-capacity machines. But with the recent announcement of the pending introduction of the RG700 RoGator, it's clear the company still sees a market[...]

If the title of this week's blog had you hoping I'd be talking about Clint Eastwood movies, I'm sorry to disappoint you. It's just that another restoration project is getting up to speed in my workshop, and I've done little else lately than spend time trying to loosen very rusty bolts, nearly all of which[...]

It's a common misconception that the settings laid out in the operator's manual will give a producer perfect performance from his or her combine every time. As Les Hill, ag and bioresources program director with the Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute (PAMI), tells Grainews machinery editor Scott Garvey in this video, every combine needs to be[...]

Last March, Grainews editor Leeann Minogue and her husband traveled to Nebraska to see their new Case IH combine come off the assembly line at CNH’s Grand Island plant. (You can read about their experience in this article in the current issue of Grainews.) This kind of working vacation is becoming more and more popular[...]

From the September issue of Grainews Over the last few years, the term vertical tillage has slowly crept into many farmers' vocabulary. And while many have recently made a leap of faith and purchased one of these machines, others are still trying to understand just exactly what vertical tillage is all about. To give farmers[...]

With harvest upon us, a video available at Grainews.ca takes a look at ways in which Prairie farmers can get the most out of their combines this summer and fall. In the short EQuipTV video posted in June, Grainews machinery editor Scott Garvey takes us to a Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute (PAMI) combine clinic at[...]

This year's Western Canada Farm Progress Show saw Canadian seeder manufacturer Bourgault Industries roll out three configurations of its new 3320 drill and offer a peek at next year's rollout of its biggest seeder cart yet. In this episode of EQuipTV, also available at the Grainews site here, the magazine's machinery editor Scott Garvey pays[...]