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Farewell from our machinery editor

By Scott Garvey January 7, 2020

About 14 years ago I started contributing to Grainews, by creating workshop articles. Before long I was asked to include a wider variety of machinery-related contributions to my to-do list. That included covering what was new and exciting in the farm machinery world. Since then I’ve written about dozens of new machines and attended their[...]

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Sky Agriculture’s Easy Drill debuts in the west

By Scott Garvey October 18, 2019

There’s a new drill in town looking to impress western farmers. It’s the Easy Drill from Sky Agriculture, which is a division of France-based Sulky. That company has been in business since 1936. But here on the Prairies, it isn’t exactly a household name. Quebec-based Innotag represents Sky Agriculture in this country and had the[...]

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Case IH offers aluminum boom option on Patriot sprayer

By Scott Garvey April 14, 2020

Last fall, Case IH released new options for its 4440 Patriot sprayer that should allow it to cover even more acres in a day — a larger 1,600-gallon tank and aluminum boom options. The aluminum booms are available in 132- and 135-foot widths. These broad working widths not only get the most efficiency out of[...]

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Rock picker-rake combo rolls out of Finland

By Scott Garvey October 15, 2019

A lot of middle-aged farmers across the Prairies can remember being sent out into the field with a “stone boat,” a tractor and pair of gloves with instructions to pick all the rocks. Today even those small- to medium-size rocks can be picked efficiently and quickly without wearing out a pair of gloves. The Elho[...]

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John Deere revamps its 6M tractor line

By Scott Garvey November 4, 2019

In mid-September, John Deere pulled the wraps off the latest updates to one of its mid-horsepower tractor ranges: the 6M family. That mid-spec line will see a much wider range of new options available for the 2020 model year across all models, but a new 140-horsepower 6140M model will also join the group to fill[...]

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A case of many CASEs

By Scott Garvey November 21, 2018

Last October, machinery editor Scott Garvey took a drive out to Lavenham in southern Manitoba to see for himself one local farmer’s approach to farm machinery – a collection of twelve 90 Series CASE tractors. But these are only a part of a fleet of 26 tractors in total on Larry Rodgers’ farm that he[...]

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DOT spends the winter in Arizona

By Scott Garvey June 4, 2019

Continuous field testing of prototype machinery can be a challenge for Canadian ag equipment manufacturers, because our long winters limit access to fields. A good option is to head to southern portions of the U.S. where milder climates make year-round testing possible. Only that way can engineers rack up the maximum number of hours on[...]

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Dot Technology Corp. opens R&D centre in Alberta

By Scott Garvey December 11, 2019

With the first season of commercial use of Dot autonomous machine use now coming to an end, Dot Technology Corp., a division of SeedMaster, is continuing its R&D efforts to advance the automation used in its Dot autonomous implement carrier, the A-U1. To do that, it’s opening a subsidiary firm called Dot Intelligence Inc., which will[...]

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Manitou's 'NewAg' agricultural telehandler

By Scott Garvey March 22, 2019

Telehandlers are slowly gaining popularity among Canadian farmers. While they aren’t yet taking the market by storm, manufacturers are beginning to give potential buyers more reason to consider adding a telehandler to a farm fleet, offering models tailored for farm environments and typical agricultural jobs. Bringing them to farm equipment shows helps catch farmers’ eyes.[...]

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Lemken improves parts life

By Scott Garvey November 5, 2019

In the 1980s, Germany-based Lemken, which specializes in tillage equipment, introduced its “Dural” hardened wear parts to improve service life on ground-engaging components. Ten years ago it introduced the DuraMax line of wear parts, which offered another 15 per cent improvement in wear resistance over the Dural parts. This year Lemken has announced it’s expanding[...]

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Farewell from our machinery editor

Sky Agriculture’s Easy Drill debuts in the west

Case IH offers aluminum boom option on Patriot sprayer

Rock picker-rake combo rolls out of Finland

John Deere revamps its 6M tractor line

A case of many CASEs

DOT spends the winter in Arizona

Dot Technology Corp. opens R&D centre in Alberta

Manitou's 'NewAg' agricultural telehandler

Lemken improves parts life

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