Aside from growing up on the farm in the ‘70s and being around machinery on a regular basis as a kid, the TV show “Movin’ On” was a can’t-miss event for me every week the show ran. (There was no DVR back then!)

To my mind, the star of that show was the Kenworth W900 highway tractor that was central to it. My early fasciation with trucks, farm equipment and most things mechanical helped mould me into a “gearhead”. So quoting the name of that show seemed like the best possible title for this blog, which is the last one I’ll write here at Grainews as machinery editor, because now I’m movin’ on. I’m retiring from publishing.

For those of you who are machinery nuts, you’ve been binging like me this past week on Twitter images coming from Agritechnica in Germany. This is the first edition of that show I wasn’t at in a decade. So I’m watching from the sidelines too, which is an unusual feeling for me.

Attending that show every two years was just one of my many regular travels while doing this job. A quick accounting of my many trips revealed I’d been to nine countries on three continents, many of them several times. I can’t even remember all the places I’ve been to in the U.S., where a healthy portion of my travel took me.

When editorial director John Morriss called me up 10 years ago and offered me the job, I certainly didn’t expect to spend so much time on airplanes heading to places I would otherwise have never gone to. Arriving in those locations, I had the opportunity to get the inside scoop on what many manufacturers were up to and often operated their equipment before the general public was allowed to see it. And there were many times I wandered through brand’s R&D facilities—albeit usually with a promise to keep some of the secrets I saw strictly to myself.

I saw a lot of unexpected sights beyond machinery-related stuff as well. Usually business trips were exactly that, strictly business—do the job and grab a cab back to the airport for the flight home, but not always.

On a trip to England, I was standing inside Chatsworth House, one of the great country house mansions, when I happened to glance out the window to see one of only two still-flying Lancaster bombers do a low-altitude flyover. For a guy impressed by machines and former private pilot, that was a spectacular sight—and sound!

Of course I’ve looked the other way from airplanes on my trips, too. As we took off from Sydney Australia, the pilot announced that if we all looked out the starboard-side windows (that’s the right side for you land lubbers) we’d see the Tasman Sea—nothing but water between us and Antarctica. At the other end of the planet I looked down on Lake Laberge in the Yukon, made famous by the Robert Service poem.

In London I managed to film part of a machinery video on the Abbey Road crosswalk where the famous album cover image of the Beatles was taken.

So, what do you say when you wrap up that kind of a career?

Publishing is a team sport and the content that appeared in print and online was the result of input from a lot of other very talented people at the company. So I have to acknowledge what you read and saw wouldn’t have been as good without their contributions.

And, of course, there’s no point creating content if no one is interested in reading or watching it. That’s where you come in. I want to thank you readers and subscribers for your attention to the articles I wrote and videos we filmed over the years. Without positive feedback from all of you, the publisher wouldn’t have invested the kind of resources they did in keeping me around.

So thank you, readers. As some of the content that’s already written waits its turn for publishing, you’ll see my name on the occasional by-line in magazines and online for the next while until that supply runs out.

I’ve been searching over the last few days for the perfect sentence to end off my writing that properly expressed my best wishes and appreciation. No matter what I came up with, nothing seemed more on point than Mr. Spock’s famous phrase.

Live long and prosper.

Scott

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There is a torrent of political misinformation polluting the “news” space at the moment. Aside from the “bots” flushing crap through the Twitterverse sewer and other online spaces, there is Fox News in the U.S. that has consistently skewed news and commentary to support the unsupportable behaviours of those in the current administration.

In general, one of the consistent messages being put out there is that it isn’t these tainted so-called news sources that are wrong, they—with the great help of the U.S. president—consistently push the idea that the legitimate media is the “fake news” As usual, repeat something often enough and people eventually begin to take it seriously. And his words spread far beyond his own country.

We in Canada seemed to have been above the fray when it came to political leaders championing populist sentiments that were ill conceived and, well, bigoted, and we hadn’t experienced the subversive “news” sources to any great extent. That was, however, until the last election came around. There were more than a few extraordinarily false or, misleading claims being made throughout the campaigns, even by some parties.

That was disturbing, and the first time I’ve noticed anything that extreme in one of our elections. But, remarkably, the overall nonsense hasn’t stopped.

Now, we have the fledgling phenomenon of the “Wexit” movement. There really are no words for this level of stupidity. Did no one in Alberta pay attention to those decades where we went through not one but two Quebec referendums? Does no one remember the economic harm that was wrought on that province because of that? Montreal saw the flight of corporate head offices at full speed for politically safer places like Toronto. The average home owner in Montreal saw the value of their homes decline as fast as their economic opportunities because of it.

Similar difficulties are beginning to unfold in the UK, as it starts to feel the real effects of a pending Brexit.

The trouble is, these kneejerk, grassroots sentiments felt by those who haven’t taken the time to think have given politicians in many countries, including ours, an easy button. Just get onboard and ride the wave to power, all it requires is parking your integrity for a few years. You can always write a book after you have the government pension from a few years in office and claim you tried to do what you didn’t. We’ve repeatedly seen that happen down south as former administration officials speak out now instead of when they should have when they were in positions of authority and could make a difference.

The Manitoba premier was quick to stomp on the Wexit idea, and I give him credit for that. The trouble is, neither the Alberta premier nor his Saskatchewan counterpart have done their jobs adequately in that regard. Kenny’s faint damning of the notion and proposing a referendum to ask Albertans if they support the current federal transfer payment program—which was enacted a few years ago by the federal government he was actually a cabinet minister in—is really tacit support of it.

Of course the reason these politicians—and I won’t call them leaders—take these positions and offer the stupid ideas they do is because we voters fall for them.

I think it’s time we started expecting more from our political figures, and ourselves. We should expect politicians not pursue stupid programs or ride the coattails of destructive sentiments just to gain office. And from ourselves we should think about what’s really good for the country and listen to those non-political experts who actually understand policy and economics. In short, we need to pay attention to the world around us, and not allow ourselves to form simplistic opinions that motivate inadequate political figures.

Sometimes as individuals we don’t always get what we want when elections are over, and sometimes when we take our country for granted and park our common sense we get what we deserve. Apparently, that is the case again this time.

Scott

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What was waiting was an 8RX tractor, an industry first, four-track, rigid-frame, high-horsepower tractor. The 8RX joins Deere’s 8 Family of tractors, giving buyers a choice of two different tracked tractor designs: the 8RT two-track models that have been around for a while and the new four-track 8RX.

On that day, Deere gave our group of machinery writers a special treat. We got a preview look at the 8RX nearly two months ahead of its official debut. That’s one of the great things about my job, getting those kinds of unique opportunities to see the machines as they are about to hit the market and being able to speak with the engineers that built them.

There have been a few pictures making the rounds on social media as pre-production 8RX models were spotting travelling on trucks across the U.S. But now as the news breaks, so to speak, we at Grainews are not only able to talk in detail about the new tractors we saw that day, but I can tell you we were also in the field with them!

Deere had the new 8RX tractors along with the newly updated 8R and 7R tractors (oh, did I forget to mention them?) already hooked up to some tillage implements and waiting for us to put them to work outside the back door of the plant.

The 8RX tractors aren’t just standard 8Rs with track modules bolted onto them, far from it. While these tractors make use of some driveline designs used on the larger 9RX, the entire final drive components are purpose built for the tracked models. A close look at them reveals the differences. The axles look very different, and the 8RX tractors actually stand slightly taller than the other models in the 8 Family.

In the field, these tractors felt almost exactly like driving a regular 8R tractor, though. The steering felt the same, as did the turning radius. Unlike the two-track 8RT models, there is almost no ridging of dirt during turns.

All the 8R and 7R tractors get a facelift for 2020 as well, so they have a slightly different look to them. The cabs have grown a bit and feel much roomier, mostly due to taking the HVAC components out o the cab roof and putting them behind the seat to create more headroom.

The 8RX tractors will make their official world debut at Agritechnica in Germany in a couple of weeks. Getting to see them ahead of time was more than a treat. But sitting on this news to honour our agreement to Deere was difficult. We had to promise not to spoil their surprise. But now that it’s official, we’re free to tell you all about them.

And we at Grainews are going to go one better than telling you about them, we’re going to show them to you. To take a virtual pass through the field in one, click here to see our video taken during our Waterloo preview.

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Not knowing what I did for a living, that driver began explaining to me that while those truck advancements were pretty impressive, what’s going on with farm machinery makes them look almost primitive. Did I know, he asked, that some farm machines were able to operate virtually on their own? Tractor drivers don’t even steer them anymore, he said.

His assertion that ag equipment is far advanced in the technology field isn’t news to any producer these days. Agriculture is, of course, one of the leading sectors when it comes to the use of technology. But have you ever wondered what the actual value of all the available digital technology we now take for granted is?

Certainly ag equipment brands endeavour to convince buyers (and therefore producers) that the high-tech digital features built into their machines add real value to a farm’s bottom line. But there is a pretty broad range of other digital technologies available today to everyone, not just farmers. An interesting CNBC article this week reported that the head of the U.S. Federal Reserve publicly questioned how all this digital tech is almost invisibly driving the world’s economy forward, because most of it is free. “Would you give up Google for $17,000 a year?”, asked the article’s headline.

It’s an interesting question. How much value does having access to something like Google provide the average Joe (or Jane) with a smartphone? Online search engines are something we all now use virtually every day.

U.S. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell suggested those free online features may be driving the economy in ways that haven’t been considered before. And that could make predicting future growth or downturns much more difficult than in the past.

Citing data from a prominent MIT economist and pioneer researcher in this field, the article did put some cash value figures on how much each of us benefits from having access to online features.

The use of online search engines, like Google, adds U.S.$17,530 in value per person each year it asserted. Giving up Facebook would mean a user would loose U.S.$48 in value per month. YouTube provides services worth U.S.$1,173 per year to users.

The MIT economist conducted background research on his value figures in Europe as well, not just in North America. Snapchat was valued at 2.17 Euros per month to students there, he found. WhatsApp provided significantly more value at 536 Euros.

The conclusion is that the online economy, especially those platforms providing free services are quietly growing in importance to people everywhere. And they are having a measurable impact on the world economy that economists can no longer ignore.

One online service, though, didn’t impress that MIT researcher. He found absolutely no value when it came to Donald Trumps favourite soapbox, Twitter. I guess even in some parts of the 21^st century online economy, and especially in the “Twitterverse”, one old adage still holds true: sometimes you only get what you pay for.

Scott

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My morning routine usually involves first sitting down in my office with a coffee and scanning through emails, and then checking Twitter to see what, if any, interesting news is being talked about. Today I noticed two very interesting tweets almost one after the other. The contradiction between them was a bit jarring.

The first was an image of a farmer driving down a road looking at crops with a toddler on his lap steering the pickup. The second was an anniversary announcement by Volvo trucks celebrating 60 years since Nils Bohlin, an engineer at Volvo, invented the three-point seatbelt harness. A Volvo press release had this to say:

“Although the design was patented, the company decided the patent was to be left open, making it available to all vehicle manufacturers to use for free. This rather unconventional decision was made in the greater interest of public safety, to ensure that everyone, independently of whether they drove a Volvo or not, could be safer in traffic. This decision proved to be very beneficial to the world.

‘There is no safety system that comes even close to the seat belt in terms of saving lives, and the three-point safety belt has protected more people in traffic accidents than any other safety device,’ says Anna Wrige Berling (Volvo Trucks traffic and safety director).”

That announcement went on to lament the fact seatbelt use today is still far less than 100 per cent. Nowhere is that more true in Canada than in rural areas across the prairie, as that first tweet emphasized. There is a marked reduction in compliance rates on rural roads compared to urban areas.

A couple of years ago, I spent the day with Thea Green, an instructor at the U of M, and a group of her ag students who participated in a tractor safety day. The point of Green’s agenda was to get these future farmers thinking about safety.

Walk into any business in the city where there is moving equipment and you’ll need to wear a reflective vest, safety boots and glasses. I’ve yet to walk onto any Canadian farm and see anything close to that policy in place. Maybe that is part of the reason farming remains one of the most statistically dangerous occupations in this country, while work injury rates in other businesses have declined.

During harvest or seeding its common to see Twitter full of pictures of combine or tractor cabs full of young children. I remember a comment Green made on that tractor safety day, “The buddy seat in a tractor cab is not for babysitting”. But in practice, many are used for exactly that. It’s interesting to note that children are disproportionally represented in accidental farm death stats.

And very few producers seem to see the value in wearing a seatbelt in equipment cabs. The Volvo announcement said this about wearing seatbelts in heavy trucks:

“The Volvo Trucks Safety Report for 2017 showed that half of all truck drivers killed in traffic accidents would have survived if they had been wearing their seat belt,” explains Berling.

“So what are the reasons it’s not used? Some truck drivers mistakenly believe that there is no need for a belt in a truck, due to the size of the vehicle.

“’The facts are clear: Using the belt is very important also in trucks. For example, in rollover accidents, the belt can help protect the driver from being jammed between the truck and the ground,’ continues Anna Wrige Berlin.”

When it comes to tractors and other slower-moving machines, think about this from your high school physics class. Force = Mass x Velocity. If a 100-pound person is driving a tractor down the road at 20 m.p.h. and hits an obstruction. The force from just the tractor’s momentum means an unbelted operator will hit the steering column with a force of 2,000 pounds.

Is it time to review safety practices in and around equipment on your farm, or at least implement a mandatory seatbelt use policy in all vehicles and equipment? If you aren’t convinced, check out what happens in this simple roll over from a stopped position in a Volvo test as seen here

Scott

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This week a news release on a survey about the general public’s attitude toward education arrived in my digital inbox. I’m not sure how I ended up on the mailing list for it. Getting inundated by “news” releases from marketing staff of all stripes, whether or not it has anything to with what we write about is something all editors have to put up with.

In this case, that education attitudes survey actually had some interesting stats, although I’ve never heard of this organization and don’t know if the survey was well done or not. It claims most Canadians have some pretty progressive and sensible views on getting an education. Surprisingly, it finds the newest generation doesn’t view university as important as the Boomers did. Gen Z (the newest one) thinks trade school is just as good a bet when it comes to preparing to earn a living.

I tend to agree with them. When I got my university diploma in general arts, someone asked me what that qualified me to do. Well, I had to admit, nothing really. It didn’t teach me how to do plumbing or repair a diesel engine. What it did do, however, was give me a broader outlook on the world. That provided me with an invaluable foundation to build a technical education on, but I still had to develop some practical skills. So, I took classes at a trade school too, lots of them.

But most important, I think, among the survey results was an acknowledgement by 91 per cent of the population that education needs to be a lifelong process. That is as true in farming today as anywhere, and a visit to John Deere’s Intelligent Solutions Group R&D building in Des Moines, Iowa, last month emphasized that.

When I started covering ag machinery as a writer many years ago, it was primarily about the iron. Every year the story was which brand was going to one-up the other in maximum horsepower ratings on their flagship tractor. Would we see 500? Then later, could we see 600? Those were the headlines.

Today it’s who is going to up their digital game, which is what engineers and scientists at Deere’s ISG building spend their day at. Who will jump onto the autonomy train? How can brands provide new ways to collect and use machine-collected data? And who in the world would have expected one of the biggest exhibitors at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to be John Deere? But last year that’s exactly who it was, and Deere will be back there again this winter.

Many Canadians, the survey claims, think digital and virtual learning will be the norm. People believe their smartphones will be their key portal to knowledge in the very near future. They’re probably right, even now.

As technology advances, having an education becomes even more important. There is already too much information out there to ignore. To be successful, it will be necessary to know how to access it and make sense of it. Continuing to absorb new knowledge as it becomes available will be critical, even for plumbers, mechanics or other tradespeople. And in an ever-changing world, that is especially true for farmers.

Scott

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Even with his perpetually unkempt hair, Johnson couldn’t convince parliament he was a nincompoop that should be posted to Monty Python’s classic government Ministry of Silly Walks rather than be prime minister.

After all, he only wants to crash Britain out of the EU in a manner that many economists predict would utterly disrupt international business.

Down south, Donald Trump incorrectly claimed Alabama was forecast to be hit hard by Hurricane Dorian. The U.S. government’s own weather office immediately contradicted that on Twitter, saying it wasn’t true. So Trump, or someone in his office, apparently took a Sharpie to an official hurricane path forecast map and drew a different line on it in a manner that any grade school student would be embarrassed to hand in for an art class assignment. That map was then shown to the media right in the Oval Office, as proof Trump was right. Apparently, he and his staff assumed the assembled media was made up of characters from the Python “Twit Competition” skit.

Now can’t you, in your mind’s eye, see John Cleese playing the part of Donald Trump presenting that map in a Python skit? To me, this whole Trump-hurricane episode reminds me of Python’s classic it’s-a-dead-parrot-no-it’s-not skit.

Then Trump is reported to have told his senior staff it would be a good idea to set off an atomic bomb in the middle of the hurricane to stop it. Spoiler alert: every expert thinks this could be the dumbest idea ever.

With all of this going on, watching cable news ought to be the equivalent of first-class entertainment and good for more than a few laughs. The trouble is, none of the unbelievable actions of these major leaders is even remotely funny. What was a continually growing world economy with booming trade two years ago has given way to gloomy predictions of a looming global recession.

AEM, The Association of Equipment Manufacturers that represents most of the major ag and off-road equipment manufacturers has been one of the organizations trying to sound the alarm about messing with global trade agreements ever since Trump starting nixing them. Sadly, apparently no one of consequence was listening.

In its latest report, AEM suggests the current level of U.S and Chinese tariffs will cost about 260,000 jobs in the U.S. alone over the next decade, with over 20,000 of them in the manufacturing sector alone. They make no mention of what the disruptions will hold for other nations, but farm equipment production costs are expected to rise by six percent.

In its latest earnings call, John Deere’s management brought up the probability of significant layoffs due in part to increased production costs from tariffs.

If only it was possible to re-enact another famous Python skit. The fish slapping one, where the officer stands at attention in military fashion and then gets ceremoniously whacked upside the head with a wet fish. I have an idea as to who would best play the part of the guy (or guys) on the receiving end of the fish.

Scott

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Pumping gas was one of those things a lot of young guys my age started out their career in the work world with, me included. Those were the days when you pumped the gas, washed the windows and even occasionally checked the oil or pumped up a low tire. Compressed air at a gas station was free back then, offered as a courtesy.

These days it can be rare to even get a courteous “thank you” from a gas station clerk. Of course most of them are working for minimum wage, so I can understand their lack of enthusiasm for their job. Thankfully, it’s not even necessary to speak to anyone when you fuel up anymore. Just pay with your credit card at the pump and walk away.

As I stood at that station watching the dollar value readout on the pump race upward, it occurred to me pumping my own gas has become so second nature I actually prefer it to letting a station attendant do it. Back in the ‘70s when stations were changing over to self-serve, I felt the opposite way. It’s funny how attitudes change.

One of the other things that has changed since then is the price of diesel is now typically higher than gasoline. It used to always be the other way. And there has been some interesting news on the diesel front this week. Now that the election campaign in Manitoba is under way, the ruling Conservative party has announced a new promise: If they’re re-elected, they’ll increase the renewable fuels mandate in diesel from two percent to five. If that’s a good thing, why not do it now?

(I guess being present in the Legislature for pesky chores like passing laws would cut into our premiere’s leisure time at his Costa Rica homestead.)

“This step would create a win-win-win scenario benefitting the environment, farmers and the economy,” says Rick White, CEO, Canadian Canola Growers Association in a press release. “It offers reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, new market opportunities for farmers, and investment and jobs in Canada’s processing sector.”

I’m always sceptical of the claim of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in statements like these, because fully evaluating the impact on the environment through the full production and distribution chain is a complex one. But there is no doubt canola growers would welcome a stronger domestic market for their product now that China is, as the British say, playing silly buggers with canola purchases from Canada. And that has hurt elevator prices.

According to the Canola Growers, canola currently makes up about 40 per cent of the sustainable biofuel feedstock mix in Canada’s diesel supply. If a similar change to the one being discussed in Manitoba were introduced across Canada, 1.3 million tonnes of canola would be used up in Canada’s domestic renewable fuel supply.

It’s always hard to say if political parties will keep their election promises. I’m not betting next week’s paycheque that this one will ever see the light of day. But with today’s crazy, upside-down world of global trade that is the product of Donald Trump’s madness, a lot of countries, including ours, may—among other things—need to look at new domestic uses for what used to be exports.

We may have no choice.

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As I sat at my desk looking for an excuse not to do any actual work, my dog, Dixie, wandered into the office and insisted on sitting on my lap. Clearly that was a sign, or at least a really good excuse to completely goof off. Because just like Roger Miller sang, you can’t roller skate in a buffalo herd, you can’t type on a computer with a dog on your lap. (If you haven’t heard that song, Google it.)

Even on the farm, there were days when I escaped from the office and went out to the workshop with the intention of wrenching on at least one of my Jeep restoration projects. I’d get there, look at what needed to be done, then decide I should just have a coffee first. On those days the dog, the cat and I would spend ample time sitting in the shop office listening to classic country on satellite radio with that coffee. (Thank goodness I had the foresight to bring the old coffeemaker out to the shop office rather than let my wife throw it out.)

This week in my office with Dixie on my lap I put my feet up to watch the world go by outside my window. Dixie seemed to be in full agreement with that plan. She zonked out almost immediately.

As I sat there I set the music playlist on my phone to play. (Maybe the Roger Miller though got me thinking about music.) My playlist is a long one, made up of a variety of songs I found on YouTube along with things like theme songs to old TV shows I used to like, as well as some James Bond movie themes.

It’s funny how some songs bring back memories of particular times.

Looking at Dixie asleep on my lap made me think of the dog we had before her who used to sleep on my lap in the shop office. She’s now long gone. Dogs always seem to live in the moment, enjoying whatever situation they find themselves in at the time, making the best of the time they have. It’s a lesson we humans should pay more attention to.

Spending that time with Dixie was the most enjoyable time I spent in the office all week. As harvest is about to start for many producers, and may have already started for some depending on where they farm, there will be a few weeks ahead with little sleep and a lot of time in the cab.

If you haven’t started the hectic schedule yet, try and find some time to be “in the moment” before the season really ramps up. As you get older, they’ll be the times you look back on the fondest.

And no matter what, be safe as you operate heavy machinery during those long hours.

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Kubota’s launch happened last week in Grapevine, Texas.

Between last March and now, everyone knew Versatile would be building the M8s, so the obvious assumption was that both tractor lines would be built on the same platform, with some likely small differences unique to each brand. And with that awkward interim period between Versatile’s launch and Kubota’s finally over, we can now see that has proven to be the case.

Kubota will offer two M8 models, the 190 horsepower M8-191 and 210 horsepower M8-211. As expected, power will come from 6.7 Cummins diesels mated to ZF transmissions. Both 40 and 50 km/h 30 X 15 power shifts models are available, with Kubota offering its KVT 50 km/h CVT transmission as an option.

In the hydraulics department, both tractors get closed-centre pumps available with a standard 31.7 g.p.m. (120 l/min) flow rate or an optional 42.2 g.p.m. (160 l/min) Up to five rear remotes are available.

A standard fixed front axle with optional full locking differential can be upgraded to a suspended design to pair with a suspended cab to improve the ride for the operator and give traction a boost.

I was able to make it down to Texas for the launch and get into the field with these tractors to actually put them to work. The launch event itself had all the usual dry-ice smoke, fancy lighting and heart-pumping music as the tractors were revealed to a group of about 80 dealers and their guests. Interestingly the dealer group was split down the middle, with Canadians making up 50 percent of the bunch. A Kubota executive told me brand recognition in Canada is well beyond that in the U.S. So the company has more ground to make up in promoting their ag equipment lines to Americans than Canadians.

With the M8, Kubota now has a tractor that moves well beyond the hay and forage market and gets up into the mid-range tractor category, with enough muscle to handle the tillage needs of many producers. Seeing an orange tractor pulling a planter and vertical tillage tool was arguably the most unfamiliar sight of my couple of days in Texas. But it’s one farmers will eventually get used to seeing. There were more than a few hints—although nothing specifically stated by brand executives—there will be more to come from Kubota as it continues toward its long held goal of becoming a full-line ag equipment brand. “Future growth” was a phrase I heard spoken several times.

With haying equipment (from its acquisition of Kverneland), tillage, planting and seeding equipment (from its purchase of Great Plains) now part of the Kubota family and tractors large enough to handle them, the company is well on its way to doing what it promised to do: become a major player in the ag market.

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