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For those of us who’ve ever bought a new tractor, taking delivery of it usually means waiting for the dealership truck to come down the driveway and unload it. The driver rolls it off the deck, leaves it running and says, “There you go,” before high tailing it off to some other job. It may […] Read more

On the eve of the Brexit vote I was sitting in a restaurant in Hungary having dinner with a group that included a British freelance journalist who also farms in the UK. She correctly predicted the then-pending referendum would fall in favour of an “out” vote, which would remove the UK from the European Union. […] Read more

Every farmer needs to have a decent relationship with at least one local machinery dealership. Those businesses play a pretty big role in keeping farm operations ticking along, and getting to know the staff in the parts and service department can definitely help with machine maintenance and repairs. A good service manager will almost certainly […] Read more

Now that we’re well into June, the farm show season is about to kick into high gear. Every year the major shows highlight the cutting edge innovations about to hit the ag equipment market. And in past years, there has been an avalanche of them. Although with the slowdown in machinery sales that started last […] Read more

Just two years ago, ag equipment manufacturers were struggling to keep up to customer orders. Assembly plants were working beyond their capacities pumping out virtually every type of machine at breakneck speed. That unprecedented demand was spurred on by seemingly unbounded optimism across all sectors of agriculture. But there were a few muffled voices saying, […] Read more

A few weeks ago, Arie Prilik of MTZ Equipment Ltd., Canadian distributors of the Belarus-built MTZ line of tractors emailed me—as well as a few others—with a chart his company had prepared. It was a sampling of current list prices for new tractors in the 80 to 450-Plus horsepower range. “It’s not meant to be […] Read more