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Are you thinking about taking a car trip this summer? If you are and you can convince your wife to spend time looking at farm machinery, I have a couple of destination suggestions. First, this is John Deere’s 175th corporate birthday. And the company has updated its tourist-oriented John Deere Pavillion in Moline, Illinois. The […] Read more

Standards limiting engine emissions is something farmers all across Canada have been hearing a lot about over the last few years. Off-road diesel engines, like those powering farm equipment, have had to meet increasingly stringent limits recently. But initially developing those tough, new regulations was primarily the result of forward-looking efforts in Europe and the […] Read more

A couple of weeks ago, Statistics Canada released their latest agriculture census. Since then, a lot of page space has been taken up in a variety of farm publications discussing the findings. And there has been a lot of criticism of the Stats Can data. Key among the points some people have taken offence to […] Read more

Last week, several members of the farm media gathered at New Holland’s North American headquarters in New Holland, Pennsylvania, at the company’s invitation. During the past several years, NH hasn’t done a lot to get media attention, and this was meant to be a new beginning. Abe Hughes, II, NH’s vice president of North American […] Read more