Equip Blog

Are you thinking of buying a vertical tillage implement but wondering if you’ll get enough use out of it to justify the expense? What if it could double as your seed drill, would that change the equation? Jim Boak, sales manager at Salford Group, says his company has been doing field trials using a vertical […] Read more

The weather this year has been as tough on farm machinery shows as it has been on farmers. Visitors to Canada’s Farm Progress Show in Regina in June needed to scurry for shelter several times because of intermittent heavy downpours and flashes of lightening. Other events through the summer received the same treatment from Mother […] Read more

This year even a casual stroll through a farm machinery show will reveal the obvious trend toward increased use of rubber-belted track systems. And manufacturers have recently introduced even more options for those who want the benefits that technology offers. In less than three decades belts have gone from the fringe to the mainstream. This […] Read more

With competition from industry and oilfields, crop input service providers across the prairie have faced a challenge in recruiting and maintaining good quality employees. So as an employer if you can provide a special bonus to a valued employee to help keep him or her on staff, that could make the difference. AGCO wants to […] Read more

A decade or two—or maybe three—ago, tillage slowly became a dirty word on the prairie. I can remember hearing many farmers in the 1970s express a the-more-passes-the-better opinion when it came to cultivation. But that coffee-shop wisdom was flawed. In fact, serious erosion of prairie soils was making magazine headlines at the same time many […] Read more

Nominations have now closed on the Farmer’s All-Time Favourite Machine competition, and your submissions were handed over to the judges, who were charged with the task of selecting three finalists in each category. Picking those finalists was no easy task. We said at the start of this competition that the judges would take a few […] Read more

As prairie farmers wait impatiently for the first sustained period of seasonal-average temperatures since 2013, the prospect of another delayed spring now seems almost a certainty. That kind of trouble is bad enough for those seeding the usual canola, wheat and other cereal crops, but it has to be weighing heavily on those who have […] Read more

For nearly every farmer there’s at least one tractor, combine or other machine that stands out as being a favourite. Maybe it offered—or still offers—unbeatable reliability and efficiency, or it’s styling has proven to be elegant and timeless. Well, now’s your chance to speak up and get some recognition for that machine you think so […] Read more