Equip Blog

Right from its formation in the mid 1980s, AGCO’s strategy to add new products and technology to its line was to purchase additional companies. In the process, it wrote a lot of cheques to get new engineering. Today, however, under a new CEO and with its own R and D team, AGCO has changed gears. […] Read more

  The unusually wet weather across most of the prairies this season gave grain growers a real headache. Cattlemen, on the other hand, were smiling. Pastures and hay crops have rarely been better, a pleasant change after last year’s dismal yields. But getting that hay harvested is posing a challenge. Continuing rains mean livestock producers […] Read more

Hello, and welcome to the first instalment of my blog. As machinery editor for Grainews, it’s my job to keep tabs on what’s new and exciting in the farm machinery marketplace. And there is a lot. This year’s Western Canada Farm Progress Show (WCFPS) in Regina was proof of that. The event, which hasn’t always […] Read more