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John Deere Gators eat up engineering award

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Last December, the ASABE (American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers) awarded John Deere one of the coveted AE50 Awards for its new XUV835 and XUV865 Gators. Every year the ASABE hands out engineering awards to most innovative designs to appear in new ag equipment. The full list of AE50 award recipients is released along[...]
Equipment, Machinery

PHOTOS: Syn Trac tractor makes its world debut

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There were no shortage of uncommon equipment designs under the roofs of the nearly 30 massive buildings that housed the 2017 edition of Agritechnica in Germany in November, but none caught our eye as quickly as the revolutionary Syn Trac tractor. Standing beside the machine on display, Ana Putz, one of the company’s marketing staff and[...]
Machinery

PHOTOS: A look at Agritechnica 2017

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Several weeks ago I noticed a post on Twitter from someone who described one western Canadian farm show as being “like Agritechnica, only smaller.” I assume that description was somewhat tongue-in-cheek. The truth is, there really isn’t any other farm equipment show remotely like Agritechnica. This show, held in Hanover Germany every two years, stands[...]
Equip Blog

Farm long and prosper

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David Yee, vice president of operations at PAMI (the Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute), titled his presentation to an audience at Manitoba Ag Days in Brandon on Wednesday referencing two iconic names: “Star Wars and Star Trek, How Precision Ag May Land in the Farm of the Future”. He believes the high-tech fantasy realities in those[...]
Equip Blog

A new look at old tractors

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At the 2013 edition of Agritechnica (the massive machinery show) in Germany, there was a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the diesel engine. Of course Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the diesel engine, hailed from that part of the world, so it isn’t surprising that country would honour his invention. But the intent behind the[...]
Machinery

New potato harvester from Grimme

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Big red Grimme potato harvesters are anything but a common sight here in Canada, but spud growers will likely recognize the name of one of Grimme’s brand subsidiaries, U.S.-based Spudnik, which it acquired in 2003. Spudnik has been a major potato equipment supplier in North America for a long time. The Grimme brand harvesters are[...]
Equip Blog

Resolving to be creative

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With Christmas behind us and a new—and so far very cold—new year ahead, what resolutions have you made that you’ll now have to follow through on? If you’re like me, New years resolutions tend be forgotten very soon. But the truth is the New Year is a good time to sit down and seriously think[...]
Machinery

Kioti puts cabs on its CK10 series

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One thing most farmers would agree on is it takes a lot work to keep farmyards neat and tidy. Whether it’s mowing grass in the summer or clearing snow from driveways and around buildings in winter, small tractors that fit into the compact utility segment can come in pretty handy with those chores. Often those[...]
Machinery

Hydraulics on axle help farmer position auger

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Gord Blechinger of Gord’s Horsepower Service in Muen­ster, Sask. was one of the farmyard inventors to pick up a Sterling Standard Innovation award at this year’s Canada’s Farm Progress Show in Regina. He won it for his Auger Side Shift, which was displayed in the farmyard inventions forum. Blechinger’s brainchild was born when he began[...]
Machinery, News

What will farm machines look like in 10 years?

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What were most farmers thinking as they watched DOT, the autonomous implement platform, perform for seemingly never-ending crowds during the Ag in Motion farm show in July? It’s hard to say if it was amazement, excitement that field robots are finally here, or some combination of the two. Whichever it was, DOT, the brainchild of[...]

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