The Ideal combines unload at up to 6 bushels per second and can empty the grain tank in 90 seconds.

AGCO builds the “Ideal” combine

All-new “global” combine design debuts at Germany show

“For me this combine is the star of the show,” said Adam Sheriff, AGCO market development manager for the new Ideal combine series. “Everything is new with this combine.” He and I spoke as we stood near the rear of a new Massey Ferguson Ideal combine at AGCO’s display at the Agritechnica machinery show in Hannover Germany […] Read more



Grimme hopes Canadian farmers will see the potential offered by the new EVO 290 potato harvester as the brand looks to increase its presence in the North American market.

New potato harvester from Grimme

Brand sees an emerging market for specialty harvester in North America

Big red Grimme potato harvesters are anything but a common sight here in Canada, but spud growers will likely recognize the name of one of Grimme’s brand subsidiaries, U.S.-based Spudnik, which it acquired in 2003. Spudnik has been a major potato equipment supplier in North America for a long time. The Grimme brand harvesters are […] Read more

John Deere’s Gator family grows

John Deere’s Gator family grows

Show visitors could drive 
new models over a test track

Visitors to the U.S. Farm Progress Show in Illinois in August were able to take a spin in one of the new John Deere Gators. They had a choice between taking the new gas-powered XUV835 or diesel XUV865 Utility Vehicles for a turn around a specially constructed demonstration track on the show grounds. For operators […] Read more



Kioti introduced the SE models to its CK10 tractor series. They’re cabbed models available with 35 or 40 horsepower.

Kioti puts cabs on its CK10 series

The South Korean brand ups the comfort 
level on its compact tractors

One thing most farmers would agree on is it takes a lot work to keep farmyards neat and tidy. Whether it’s mowing grass in the summer or clearing snow from driveways and around buildings in winter, small tractors that fit into the compact utility segment can come in pretty handy with those chores. Often those […] Read more


This mock up shows the design of the hydraulic Auger Side Shift axle, which won an innovation award at Canada’s Farm Progress Show.

Hydraulics on axle help farmer position auger

A Saskatchewan on-farm invention helps position large augers

Gord Blechinger of Gord’s Horsepower Service in Muen­ster, Sask. was one of the farmyard inventors to pick up a Sterling Standard Innovation award at this year’s Canada’s Farm Progress Show in Regina. He won it for his Auger Side Shift, which was displayed in the farmyard inventions forum. Blechinger’s brainchild was born when he began […] Read more

Bourgault air seeders will now be delivered with a Topcon X35 monitor system, which includes a few new features.

Digital upgrades from Bourgault

The brand moves up to a Topcon X35 in-cab monitor

Buyers of Bourgault seeding equipment will now get an upgraded monitor system. A Topcon X35 system replaces the previous X30 the brand had been using. “This year the X35 replace the X30,” says Bourgault’s Rob Fagnou. “For the most part its very similar to the X30. The screen size is the same, but it has […] Read more


CN trains in Vancouver. (CN.ca)

CN, CP roll over revenue caps for 2016-17

Canada’s big two railways have both overshot the maximum revenue they’re allowed to keep for ferrying the 2016-17 grain crop off the Prairies. The Canadian Transportation Agency on Thursday issued its annual determination of how much, if any, revenue Canadian National Railway (CN) and Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) made over their maximum grain revenue entitlements […] Read more

The PPS, a two-row single-pass planter designed on a Manitoba farm is capable of handling a wide range of seed types. 


A one-pass, hybrid planter-drill born on the farm

Manitoba farmers debut their do-it-all planter designed for Western Canada

A look back at the origins of Western Canadian short-line ag equipment manufacturers would reveal one thing common to almost all of them: their founders were farmers making on-farm machine modifications or inventing new systems to achieve goals not possible with then-existing equipment. The new PPS single-pass planter on display at this year’s edition of […] Read more