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Big news from John Deere in 2025
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Big news from John Deere in 2025

Bigger tractors, new combines and air carts debut for 2025 model year

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With an eye catching announcement on February 28, John Deere takes the lead in the tractor horsepower race. It is introducing the most powerful four-wheel drive production ag tractor ever built, surpassing Case IH’s 715 horsepower Steiger, which only debuted this past fall and briefly held that record. With three new 9RX models, the 9RX […] Read more
Units such as these developed by a British firm, Small Robot Co., have already been put to work in per-plant weed control, in which an AI "advice engine" identifies which plants the robot can kill.
Equipment, Features, Machinery

Farmers need to be open to AI technology

Already a major force, artificial intelligence soon will be smarter than humans

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If Canadian farmers are waiting for the wave of artificial intelligence (AI) to hit the agriculture industry, they’re a bit late, according to a technology expert and consultant. It’s already here. And although he’s not a farmer himself, Walter Schwabe told producers attending the recent CrossRoads Conference in Calgary that if farmers don’t try to […] Read more
A Case IH Steiger 385 tractor upgraded with a new Trimble GFX system for tillage and NH3 applications.
Features, Machinery

Old equipment, new life: Cost-effective tech upgrades

An ag tech expert talks about how existing farm machinery can be upgraded to perform at the same level as new equipment

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What’s old can be like new again, says the president of a Saskatchewan company that specializes in helping producers outfit older farm machinery with the latest in precision farming technology. Matthew Yanick, who founded Rocanville, Sask.-based MY Precision Ag, spoke at the recent Manitoba Ag Days farm show in Brandon about the benefits of equipping […] Read more
The row unit on the Solus 1047 SX looks more like a corn planter than a seeder.
Equipment, Machinery

Concept blurs line between planter, seed drill

Horsch has created a concept to bring the advantages of a planter to smaller-seeded crops

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Is it a planter or a drill? If a concept machine created by Horsch eventually comes to the market, someone might have to invent a new category. “We’re trying to mix and trying to get the best of both worlds, which is a seed drill and a corn planter,” says Laurent Letzler, who manages Horsch […] Read more
Crop.zone bills its electric desiccation system as “hybrid herbicide technology.”
Machinery

Pre-spraying boosts effectiveness of electric weed-killing machine

Crop.zone has partnered with John Deere on a new, wider machine for in-crop weed control

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Glacier FarmMedia — German company tested its electric desiccation system on Canadian farms this growing season, as it works to bring weed control through electricity to large-scale operations. Crop.zone is unique in that it combines an application of liquid to the plant at the front of the tractor, and an electric shock at the back, […] Read more
Yancy Wright, go-to-market manager for production updates at John Deere, points out the remote separator grate covers available as a retrofit upgrade for X9 combines.
Machinery

Deere offers new performance upgrades

Some of the newest features can be retrofitted to late-model machines

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Every year, the updated machinery offerings from manufacturers make much of their newest equipment just that little bit more efficient — and sometimes significantly more so. But it isn’t always economically feasible to buy a brand new machine just to get a few new features, even if they could enhance the farm’s bottom line. This […] Read more
Agco's Rogator sprayer brand has now been made part of the Fendt equipment lineup.
Machinery

Fendt adopts the Rogator

Agco's sprayers now wear Fendt colours — what else has changed?

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Longtime farmers will easily recognize the familiar yellow Rogator sprayers that have worked North American fields over the past few decades, but that eye-catching bright colour on their sheet metal has changed, as has the brand name they wear on their flanks. Parent company AGCO has transferred these sprayers over to its Fendt line of […] Read more
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Columns, Equipment, Machinery

Expensive new equipment or older/cheaper: Which makes more sense?

Higher cost of newer equipment can pay off, but only if there's a benefit

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In late 1978 I bought a new Ford 4×4 pickup truck. The sticker price was under $10,000 and my job at the time was paying me around $25,000 a year. That meant the truck, at about a third of my annual income, was pretty affordable. Using the Bank of Canada’s inflation calculator, that truck would […] Read more

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