Red 4WD Tractors, 1957 - 2017 is a detailed history

Lee Klancher’s new book Red 4WD Tractors, 1957 – 2017 is no lightweight, figuratively or literally. (That seems only fitting, given the high-horsepower subject matter.) The large format book runs over 370 pages and includes a more than ample helping of rare photos. With Red 4WD Tractors, Klancher follows up on his previous book about[...]

New Outlander from Can-Am

Can-Am will be introducing a new version of the Outlander ATV for 2018. The Mossy Oak Hunting Edition 1000R will come equipped with options that not only make it well suited for fall hunting trips, but on-farm chores as well. To start with, it gets a camouflage paint scheme that gives it its name along[...]


Seeing the Agritechnica sights

Grainews readers will certainly have heard us talk about this November’s Agritechnica machinery show in Hannover Germany. We’ve been covering the event since 2007, and this year we even arranged to round up a bunch of our readers and bring them along with us as we made our way across the Atlantic. Both Leeann Minogue[...]

How to repair a faulty fuel gauge

One fault owners can almost certainly expect to develop on older machines and trucks is a fuel level gauge that eventually stops working. Repairing that problem isn’t too difficult, even if OEM replacement parts are no longer available. There are plenty of aftermarket components that can do the job. However, even though all fuel gauge[...]


Horsch introduces the Joker RT40

Horsch announced it has added the RT40 version to its Joker tillage implement line. The RT40 offers a 40-foot working width. It uses a five-fold frame design to improve contouring ability and allows it to fold up to less than 16 feet wide for road transport. To leave a finished field surface, RT40 models will[...]

Horsch introduces the Panther 460 SC

Horsch recently announced it has introduced a new seed drill and commodity cart combination for the 2018 seeding season. The Panther 460 SC, 60-foot drill offers row spacings of 7.5, 15 and 30 inches, with shanks mounted on a four-row toolbar for maximum residue clearance. The Panther is designed to mate with Horscah’s own SW600[...]


Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk makes Canadian debut

Considering the first civilian model of Jeep ever available in Canada, the CJ2A, offered only about 38 engine horsepower, the latest power output from a vehicle in the brand more than 60 years later is, well, spectacular. Fiat Chrysler America (FCA) has crammed an unbelievable 707 horsepower into the 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk, which[...]

Kuhn introduces CCX 9000 Cover Crop Seeder

Kuhn Krause has recently announced the introduction of the CCX 9000 Cover Crop Seeder, which is designed for use on its Excelerator vertical tillage implements. It gives producers the ability to seed a cover crop while performing a tillage pass. The Quantron S2 control monitor inside the tractor cab, which includes what the brand describes[...]


Versatile reconfigures its online store

Many farm owners and managers have a shelf or two in their office lined with scale model farm tractors, many of them carried over from that “small farm” most had as farm boys while growing up. In fact, even the founder of AGCO, Robert Ratliff, had a scale model MF manure spreader on his office[...]

Brand evolution

A few months ago I had a chance to sit down with Leah Olson, president of AMC, the Agricultural Manufacturers of Canada, which is the industry association that represents most Canadian short-line ag manufacturers. One of the topics we discussed was how the generation of innovators behind many of those companies—more than a few of[...]