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This week I found myself parked in one of the soft armchairs at a Starbucks coffee shop perusing a Globe and Mail newspaper while sipping a grande Pike Blend. Leading off the Report on Business section in the paper was this headline, “Auto workers threaten triple strike”. A strike by CAW workers against all of […] Read more

Some years, it seems, you spend more time standing at the parts counter than you do sitting in the tractor seat. It’s been one of those years around here. Spring seeding started off with an incredible 10 breakdowns in five days. Granted, a couple of those problems were caused by things I should have noticed […] Read more

25 years ago a very young Case IH Corporation introduced the Magnum, the first new tractor line to be introduced after that organization was created by joining Case and International Harvester. The four models that first comprised the Magnum Series were, like the new Case IH organization, itself, a blending of the two brands. The […] Read more

If you think it’s been hot here on the prairie, you should have been in the U.S. midwest last week. Temperatures there ranged into the mid to high 30s, celcius. Along with those temperatures, there was high humidity. So much, in fact, that in the morning the rear window of my rental car was completely […] Read more

At the end of June, John Deere held a “technology summit” in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. Members of the farm media were invited, so I along with the usual gang of writers working for publications in Canada and the U.S. showed up. But this time the majority of attendees were financial securities analysts. To say […] Read more