Equip Blog

In the last year a lot of groups and organizations decided it was time to start promoting agriculture. That led to initiatives such as the Ag More Than Ever program and a few others. The idea behind them is to get the general public familiar with farming again, and let them know how important it […] Read more

I spent most of the last week of January in Kansas City at Ag Connect Expo. This was only the third time this show has been held, and it started off on a pretty small scale—at least in terms of attendance. But from the start, this event has had some pretty impressive sponsors. All the […] Read more

A couple of weeks ago Canada’s largest farm equipment retail chain, Rocky Mountain Dealerships Inc., announced it had undergone yet another expansion and acquired two Manitoba ag equipment stores. These businesses had been operating under the name Murray’s Farm Supplies and are reported to have had revenues of about $15 million annually. The deal is […] Read more

“A clean desk is the sign of a sick mind.” You’ve no-doubt seen those words printed on a coffee cup in someone’s office. It’s meant, of course, to mock the overachiever down the hall with the tidy workspace and allow us to feel better about on own disorganization. On the farm, the workshop is a […] Read more

If you live on a farm in Western Canada, odds are there is a gravel road going past your driveway. While gravel makes for a functional road surface, it’s a little hard on vehicles. Tires that log most of their miles on gravel don’t last as long as those run over pavement. Paint and windshields […] Read more

As the calendar is about to flip over to December, Christmas music is now playing everywhere and people are starting to think about the upcoming holiday and year end. Along with that comes the annual look back on the year that is quickly passing into history. For executives at the major farm equipment manufacturers, there’ll […] Read more

One thing is for sure: we gear heads love tools. Maybe it’s just a guy thing. It’s certainly a farmer thing. It’s hard not to notice that fact at auction sales when a bunch of farmers gather around a wagon loaded with the contents of someone else’s workshop. Everyone eagerly sifts through the pile of […] Read more

Christmas is only a couple of months away—as hard as that is to believe. But if you can’t wait for Santa to bring you some new tools for the farm workshop, now might be a good time to consider upgrading your shop’s metalworking equipment by adding a plasma cutter, if you don’t already have one. […] Read more

I logged a lot of travel miles last week. About 10,000, actually. And that’s not an exaggeration. I flew to Germany for a week of meetings and events spread out from Frankfurt to a small town called Marktoberdorf near the Austrian border. So it was several days of planes, trains and automobiles. But it was […] Read more

Last week I caught a flight to Toronto to take in Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show (outdoorfarmshow.com). Although the show has been an annual event in southern Ontario for 19 years, this was my time through the gates to have a look at it. Getting from Pearson airport out to Woodstock where the show is held […] Read more