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Storms worsen summer slump in U.S. diesel supply

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New York | Reuters — U.S. diesel stockpiles did something this year that has never happened in the summer before: They shrank. And that was even before Hurricane Harvey landed, knocking out a quarter of U.S. refining capacity, crippling production of fuel products. Thanks to surprising summer demand, particularly from exports, inventories of diesel, jet […] Read more
The 2017 Grainews Machinery Challenge looked at four different materials-handling machines.
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2017 Machinery Challenge review

This year we put materials-handling equipment to the test

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Last year we put UTVs to the test in our first-ever Grainews Machinery Challenge. This time, in our second annual event, we turned our focus to equipment suited for on-farm materials handling. But we weren’t just thinking of the typical ag tractor and front-end loader combo. We wanted to look at machines designed primarily to […] Read more
(l to r) Judge Spencer Myers from Ag Dealer, Scott Garvey, Grainews machinery editor, guest judges Jim Latrace and Dave Smith. 

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Our Grainews Machinery Challenge farmer panel on telehandlers

Reader opinions: two contest-winning farmers joined the Grainews judges to evaluate our test machines

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The “official” judging team for this year’s Grainews Machinery Challenge included active farmers. But we wondered how our group of test machines might fit into our readers’ farming operations. The best way to answer that, we thought, was to put a few of them in the drivers’ seats. So, Grainews held a contest in the […] Read more
Dieci Agri Tech 35.7 VS
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Dieci Agri Tech 35.7 VS

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One of the two telehandlers Grainews put to the test this year was the Dieci Agri Tech 35.7 VS. It’s a hybrid design meant to appeal to farmers, with a rear PTO, hydraulic remotes (two on our test machine) and a three-point hitch. It comes in at a price point lower than the Merlo, with […] Read more
Kubota SSV 75 skid steer
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Kubota SSV 75 skid steer

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Most farmers are no strangers to a skid steer loader. There are several makes and models popular with farmers on the market now, so we included Kubota’s largest model, the SSV 75, in our test group. We wanted to see how it stacks up not only to other skids steers but where it lands in […] Read more
Merlo Multifarmer 40.9
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Merlo Multifarmer 40.9

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Of the two telehandlers tested in the Grainews Machinery Challenge, the Merlo Multifarmer 40.9 stood out as the most capable and highly optioned. And with that honour, as you’d expect, it had the highest MSRP of any machine in the group, $241,800 as equipped with the grapple and over $60,000 of other included options. The […] Read more
Giant V761T Tele
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Giant V761T Tele

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Certainly not yet a household name here, the Dutch company Giant is looking to expand its presence in the western Canadian market, and it wants farmers to consider its machines for ag use. The machine we tested was the V761T Tele. It’s window sticker MSRP was $168,000, but was offered at a show special of […] Read more

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