Field testing the Kubota RTV-XG850 UTV

In the market for a new UTV to help out with chores on your farm? Greg Berg and Scott Garvey of Glacier FarmMedia spent a week with the Kubota-XG850 UTV, putting it to the kind of jobs farmers would use it for. What did they think of it? Here's their review.

New 2,500-bushel grain cart from Unverferth

Unverferth has just introduced the new model 2520 grain cart, which pushes at the upper capacity limits of its cart line with a 2,500-bushel load rating. It’s the biggest cart the brand has ever built. Getting grain out of the cart won’t take more than about two and a half minutes with the cart’s pivoting[...]



John Deere rolling out new air carts for 2025

John Deere is introducing the new C Series air carts for model year 2025. At Ag in Motion this past summer, Anthony Styczinski, Deere's go-to-market manager for planters and seeders, talks with Scott Garvey, Glacier FarmMedia's senior editor for machinery and equipment, about the new cart's features.



Väderstad's plan for the North American farm equipment market

At the Ag in Motion farm show this summer, Grainews senior machinery editor Scott Garvey spoke with Väderstad CEO Henrik Gilstring about the company's acquisition of Saskatchewan-based Seed Hawk and how that figures into its North American operations, as well as how important the Canadian market is to the company's global operations.


New hay tools come west from Claas

Early in 2024, Claas introduced its new Volto hay tedders and Disco mower conditioners to the European market. The company announced this fall it intends to make those implements available to North American producers in time for the 2025 season. There are two Volto models, the 1300 and 1500, which are available in T or[...]

White’s earliest four-wheel drive tractors

As farms started to grow significantly in size through the late 1960s, equipment brands began to see a need to add new tractor models to the top end of their horsepower range. For some, that involved a few instances of so-called “badge engineering” — that is, short-term contracting with a competitor to build one of[...]


Would an autonomous tractor really fit your operation?

Tech startup company Sabanto displayed an M5 Kubota tractor equipped with its autonomy conversion kit at Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show at Woodstock, Ont. in September. But the company was willing to do more than just show off the modified tractor at its booth in order to introduce it to potential customers. The Chicago-area company was[...]

Claas-owned dealer chain to handle Horsch implements

At the corporate level there are a lot of similarities between equipment manufacturers Horsch and Claas. Both are family-owned firms headquartered in Germany with wide product distribution around the world. But each company specializes in equipment not on the roster of the other. So when Claas’ company-owned Canada West Harvest Centre dealership chain in Saskatchewan[...]