Seen at the World Ag Expo: aside from sporting oversized tires and a glossy new paint job, this McCormick-Deering, which looks to be from the brand’s 1930s era, has also been re-powered with a Cummins diesel engine.
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John Deere partners in women's clothing line
At the beginning of April, John Deere announced it was teaming up with Dovetail Workwear to develop a line of dedicated work clothing designed specifically for women.
Kenworth discontinues the classic W900 after 62 years in production
If ever you’ve seen the movie Smokey and the Bandit (1977), or watched any of the Movin’ On TV series (1974-76), you’ll be very familiar with the trucks we’re talking about here.
Agco-Deere patent dispute ends
In January a U.S. federal appeals court dismissed an appeal by John Deere of a patent infringement case against Agco. In July 2022 a Delaware jury concluded Precision Planting’s SpeedTube-vSet2 product, a high-speed planting system, did not infringe on Deere’s intellectual property. Precision Planting is an Agco brand. Agco said in a statement it’s “pleased[...]
Goodyear sells off-road tire division
In February Goodyear announced it had completed the sale of its off-road tire business to the Yokohama Rubber Co. for a cash value of US$905 million. The company said it would use that revenue toward building on its “Goodyear Forward” transformation plan that aims to improve production efficiency of its remaining products and increase its[...]
Special-edition Cats
At the end of January, in honour of its 100th anniversary, Caterpillar announced the availability of limited-edition machines through select Cat dealers around the world, including here in Canada. The limited edition models feature a custom “Centennial Grey” paint scheme to recognize the original colour of Caterpillar’s first products. The models will also include special[...]
Auto dealership chain expands
Ag equipment dealerships are now dominated by multi-store retailers. Some of them, such as the Rocky Mountain CNH dealership chain in Canada and Titan in the U.S., have grown to become dominant in several regions, pushing dealership networks to previously unheard-of sizes. The same is becoming true in the automotive world. Edmonton-based Go Auto, which[...]
New tires from Nokian
Nokian is introducing its new Soil King Flexforce VF tires for high-horsepower tractors. It first displayed them at Agritechnica 2023. The tires were also tested in Germany at the independent DLG (German Agricultural Society) test centre, and DLG has now released its report on their performance. During testing, DLG compared the Nokian Soil King tires[...]
Editor's Rant: In good company
So for weeks I’d been planning to fill this space with a tirade about last month’s cynical-yet-predictable developments in Ottawa on Bill C-234, but when Linamar went public with its plan to buy Bourgault Industries I got distracted by developments closer to home, so to speak. In case you missed the news shortly before Christmas,[...]
Editor's Column: Where the action is
There is no question spot sprayers are a hot topic in agriculture right now. As Scott Garvey reports in his article in our February 7, 2023 issue of Grainews, a new robotic spot sprayer called Solix from Solinftec, which is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil, and in West Lafayette, Ind., could be available to Canadian[...]
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