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The bi-annual flood of press releases from equipment companies proudly announcing their new ideas for farm machines, some market ready, some not, are starting to fill my email inbox. Why the sudden influx? Simple. Agritechnica, the world’s largest farm machinery show, will kick off in Hannover Germany in a couple of weeks. Agritechnica, which is […] Read more

One of the biggest friendly rivalries between farm boys is about which brand of pickup truck reigns supreme. Check the rear windows of pickups around town and you’ll see all kinds of graphics that let you know what that truck owner thinks of competitive models, like an image of the cartoon Calvin character doing something […] Read more

In simultaneous announcements, both General Motors and Navistar (the parent company of International-brand trucks) announced this week that they’ve been secretly courting each other; and they intend to get together formally, albeit in a limited way, to create a pair of new Class 4 and 5 medium-duty trucks that will wear GM badges. That will […] Read more

This week’s revelation that Volkswagon deliberately cheated on official emissions compliance procedures with its diesel-powered cars is…well…mind blowing. In case you haven’t heard, the brand inserted software into the ECUs in diesel-engined vehicles that detected when the cars’s emissions were being tested. During the tests, the cars behaved themselves and conformed to legally mandated tailpipe […] Read more

So our Saskatchewan Roughriders managed to avoid having to own up to one of the worst performance records ever recorded in CFL history last weekend by winning a game, thereby staunching the haemorrhaging win-loss record at 0-9. Granted, to accomplish that all they had to do was beat the Bombers; that wasn’t exactly asking the […] Read more

Today marks my fourth day in Australia, and I have to say this is a great place to spend time. My mission was to come down here and give Grainews readers a look at some uniquely Australian farm equipment. The best way to to that was hit one of the continent’s premiere machinery shows, Commonwealth […] Read more