Scott Garvey

Christmas is only a couple of months away—as hard as that is to believe. But if you can’t wait for Santa to bring you some new tools for the farm workshop, now might be a good time to consider upgrading your shop’s metalworking equipment by adding a plasma cutter, if you don’t already have one. […] Read more

I logged a lot of travel miles last week. About 10,000, actually. And that’s not an exaggeration. I flew to Germany for a week of meetings and events spread out from Frankfurt to a small town called Marktoberdorf near the Austrian border. So it was several days of planes, trains and automobiles. But it was […] Read more

Last week I caught a flight to Toronto to take in Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show (outdoorfarmshow.com). Although the show has been an annual event in southern Ontario for 19 years, this was my time through the gates to have a look at it. Getting from Pearson airport out to Woodstock where the show is held […] Read more

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

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