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One topic has dominated the online blogs of ag machinery editors in the past couple of weeks. It’s the sudden debate over what machinery ownership really means in the age of digital technology. The resulting controversy has generated pages of online reader comments. It seems questioning what ownership means has touched a nerve. I think […] Read more

The number of ways we’ve seen farm machines get into the Guinness World Records Book in past couple of years is imaginative to say the least. Some of those record setting efforts have come directly from brand marketing people, like my last blog entry which looked at setting a land speed record for a tractor […] Read more

It’s hard to know what to make of the ag machinery market so far this year. 2015 started off pretty shaky. By the end of February AEM (the Agricultural Equipment Manufacturers Association) reported that farmers were clearly keeping their chequebooks in their pockets. Monthly sales reports showed Canadian farmers bought over 60 percent fewer combines […] Read more

Ag tires have undergone some major technological advancements in recent years. And they really had to. Farm machines are now bigger, heavier and faster than they used to be, and that calls for more capable tire performance. Introduction of the high flexion and very high flexion radials have significantly improved traction while enlarging the tire […] Read more

There was a time when if a salesman had to spend more than five minutes with you explaining how to operate a piece of farm equipment, you probably didn’t need it. If you really did, chances were high you already knew how to use it, because it worked like virtually all the others. On top […] Read more

In about two weeks the spring auction sale season on the prairie will kick into high gear. Farm sales really take off as soon as April hits. And I can recall an auction company manager telling me it’s those early sales in late March and the beginning of April that really seem to set the […] Read more