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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[...]

Features, Machinery & Shop, Machinery and Shop

FendtONE improves digital access

By Scott Garvey November 21, 2020

Among the key trends influencing machinery design across all brands today is operator comfort. As part of that, making digital control and access simpler and more intuitive has figured high for engineering priorities as well. AGCO’s Fendt brand has been working on those priorities too. The latest result of that effort is the introduction of[...]

Machinery & Shop, Machinery and Shop

Kirovets K-744 tractor turns heads

By Scott Garvey February 26, 2019

Amongst the many machinery offerings on display at Manitoba Ag Days last month, the MTZ-Kirovets K-744, a Mercedes-Benz powered, 435 hp tractor seemed to get its fair share of attention from attendees. In this video, Arie Prilik, vice president of MTZ Equipment, takes Grainews machinery editor Scott Garvey on a walk-around of the K-744 to[...]

Machinery & Shop, Machinery and Shop, News

Antique tractors 'trek' for charity

By Scott Garvey June 19, 2019

Grainews machinery editor Scott Garvey talks with Earl Reimer of the Eden Foundation about its collaboration with Mennonite Heritage Village for Tractor Trek, an event involving over 40 antique tractors that hit the road on June 8 to raise money for charity. [VIDEO] eQuipTV: Manitoba Tractor Trek 2019 [VIDEO] equipTV: Tractor trekking ingenuity Video editing[...]

Machinery & Shop, Machinery and Shop

Grainews practical testing team heads to Minnesota

By Scott Garvey May 29, 2019

In late May, Grainews machinery editor Scott Garvey and online editor Greg Berg headed south to Grand Rapids, Minnesota, to attend the official launch of ASV’s newest compact track loader (CTL), the VT-70 High Output. Grand Rapids is home to the brand’s assembly plant and proving grounds. While they were there, the Grainews team also[...]

Machinery & Shop, Machinery and Shop

Reviewing Can-Am’s newest Defender models

By Scott Garvey December 17, 2019

Nearly every prairie farm has at least one ATV or UTV kicking around the farmyard. And the odds are that machine or pair of them gets used more than any other piece of equipment in the farm fleet. Can-Am, a division of Quebec-based BRP (Bombardier Recreational Products), has recognized that a growing chunk of the[...]

Machinery & Shop, Machinery and Shop

John Deere 7R versus 8R tractors

By Scott Garvey November 22, 2019

Across Western Canada, most John Deere dealers will likely tell you that on their lots, 8R tractors far outsell the 7Rs. Given that these two model ranges have overlapping horsepower ranges, what is it that each series offers that might be a better fit to each potential buyer? That was a question that marketing staff[...]

Equipment, Machinery & Shop, Machinery and Shop

John Deere introduces 8RX line of tracked tractors

By Scott Garvey October 28, 2019

[UPDATED Nov. 4, 2019] Today John Deere officially unveiled its new line of 8RX tractors, which are — wait for it — rigid-frame four-tracked models. Anyone who has walked the aisles at Agritechnica, the world’s largest farm machinery show in Germany, will have noticed four-tracked rigid-frame tractors on display. But those are the result of[...]

Machinery & Shop, Machinery and Shop

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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Evaluating ASV skid steers and CTL loaders

By Scott Garvey September 23, 2019

When ASV launched its newest compact track loader, the VT-70 High Output, it invited Grainews to its manufacturing plant and proving grounds for a look around. The company also offered us a chance to see for ourselves what we thought of the full product line and let us compare their machines to competing models. Naturally, we took them up[...]

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Klassen: Feeder cattle demand improving

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Farewell from our machinery editor

FendtONE improves digital access

Kirovets K-744 tractor turns heads

Antique tractors 'trek' for charity

Grainews practical testing team heads to Minnesota

Reviewing Can-Am’s newest Defender models

John Deere 7R versus 8R tractors

John Deere introduces 8RX line of tracked tractors

Sky Agriculture’s Easy Drill debuts in the west

Evaluating ASV skid steers and CTL loaders

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