Stellantis teams new aftermarket parts line with Mopar

Any longtime Dodge enthusiast — or any automotive enthusiast, for that matter — will immediately recognize the Mopar name. Chrysler merged the words “MOtor” and “PARts” together in 1937 as a trade name for its line of antifreeze. In the 85 years since, Mopar came to be synonymous with high performance parts through the 1970s,[...]

Versatile developing autonomous tractors

At the 2022 Ag in Motion farm show in Langham, Sask., a small startup company called Mojow Autonomous Solutions was demonstrating its evolving self-driving system, which was intended to work with production tractors and allow them to run without operators in the cab. It had a self-driving MFWD tractor running on a demonstration course using[...]


New Ranger Extreme Duty UTV model from Polaris

This summer Polaris announced the introduction of a three-cylinder, 1,500 cc, Extreme Duty Ranger side-by-side that delivers what the brand claims is an industry-leading 110 horsepower, giving it 30 per cent more power, and at 105 foot-pounds, 50 per cent more torque than its nearest comparable competitor. “We spent over five years meeting with farmers,[...]

New big and small loaders from John Deere

John Deere recently introduced two new machine lines for model year 2024, both of which are designed to make material handling and other jobs around the farm easier. Between them, these machines can handle either big jobs or relatively small ones. And Deere describes both lines as “compact” machines, meaning they’ve packed a fair bit[...]


Kenworth ready to deliver hydrogen-powered trucks in 2024

Electrification and alternative fuels figure prominently in most of the news coming from major automakers right now, including in light- and medium-duty trucks. And the heavy-duty truck manufacturing landscape is no exception either. All truck segments are now seeing major alternative fuel development projects and commercialization of electric drives, all the way from pickups to[...]

Getting under the skin of the 50 series Patriot sprayers

In this second instalment of our sprayer technology series, we take a look at the latest Patriot models introduced by Case IH last year: the 50 series. “With the introduction of the Patriot 50 series, we took the opportunity to start with a clean sheet of paper,” says Mark Burns, application equipment marketing manager at[...]


Deere spray tech targets just the weeds

Having walked the aisles of the world’s largest ag machinery show, Agritechnica, in Hanover, Germany, one of the things that struck me was the sheer number of different sprayers, many from a host of brands unfamiliar to us here in North America. European farmers have an enormous choice of machines compared with what we’ve been[...]

How to diagnose a no-start problem

Nearly every farm has at least one or two older pieces of equipment that still need to put in a day’s work during busy seasons, such as an auger tractor or sprayer tender truck. One of the most common problems on older machines is the sound of silence after you hop in and turn the[...]


Case IH adds to its Vestrum tractor line

In 2020, Case IH introduced the two-model line of Vestrum utility class tractors offering 100 and 130 horsepower, respectively. In February, the red brand added two more models to that line that fit in between those first two tractors. The newest Vestrums are rated at 110 and 120 engine horsepower. At the same time, the[...]

Deere reveals model year 2024 tractor updates

In March, Deere pulled the wraps off of the planned updates to the 2024 line of 7, 8 and 9 series tractors it will soon begin offering producers, giving those machines the features that the brand says will help “prepare (farmers) for the future of precision agriculture.” And that, of course, means more digital capability.[...]