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GM will offer a retrofit camera package for 2014 to 2016 Silverado trucks to make trailer towing easier and safer.
Machinery

GM offers retrofit trailering options

Rear view cameras and hitch packages available for 2014-2016 Silverado

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Farm pickups usually see their fair share of road miles with a trailer in tow, especially those owned by mixed farmers who almost always have a livestock trailer. This year the major pickup truck brands seem to be vying for attention from those who pull trailers by offering increasingly better option packages. When Ford introduced […] Read more
Exhaust gases pass through a DOC before blending with DEF. They then pass through SCR catalysts and out the exhaust pipe.
Machinery

An exhaust emissions system that’s out of sight, out of mind

A look inside the workings of a new, compact "single can" SCR system

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When AGCO’s Massey Ferguson 5713SL won a Tractor of the Year award at Agritechnica last November, one of the features that impressed the judges and helped the tractor win was the new, compact SCR exhaust emissions system. The Donaldson Company, known to many farmers as a filter brand, is actually the manufacturer behind that particular […] Read more
New from Case IH is the True Tandem 335 Barracuda vertical tillage tool for aggressive field finishing.
Machinery

Case IH lands a tillage Barracuda

This new vertical tillage tool is an option for more aggressive field finishing

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In early March Case IH introduced a new implement model it says fills a niche in the vertical tillage category. The True Tandem 335 Barracuda is designed for dealing with heavy crop residues, leaving fields a little blacker than some other vertical tillage machines. It is capable of cutting, evenly distributing and burying residue up […] Read more
(Gloria Solano-Aguilar photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Hogs, Livestock, Machinery

West’s hog farmers urged to insist trailers cleaned in Canada

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Hog industry officials in Western Canada want hog producers to insist that livestock trailers coming to their farms be washed at certified Canadian cleaning facilities — even if the trailers were just cleaned on the U.S. side of the border. The recommendation comes as a federally-approved trailer-wash pilot project, credited with helping to keep porcine epidemic diarrhea […] Read more
The Geringhoff Freedom corn header can handle a variety of different row spacings.
Machinery

A corn header with variable row spacing ability

New equipment design from Gerhinghoff

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Combine header manufacturer Gerhinghoff had a significant new product line to introduce to the North American market at the National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville, Kentucky, in February. The brand’s new Independence product line of headers includes two new corn models, the Freedom and the Patriot, which offer producers some new design options. The Freedom […] Read more
Unveiled to a group of visitors and its purchaser during a special ceremony, the 100,000th swather to be built at AGCO’s Hesston, Kansas, manufacturing facility was centre stage at the facility’s auditorium.
Machinery, News

AGCO’s swather factory hits a milestone

Hesston factory builds its 100,000th swather

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“Ladies and gentlemen I present to you the 100,000th swather,” said Kyle Kitt, AGCO’s marketing manager, as he stood on stage in an auditorium at the brand’s Hesston, Kansas, combine and hay equipment manufacturing plant in late March. From then on, it was a little like a rock concert. Music played and lights flashed as […] Read more
After testing, all panels are in place and a worker applies decals.

Machinery

PHOTOS: Along the Line: Assembling a Massey Ferguson swather

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AGCO’s recent 100,000th milestone for swather builds coincides with the 70th anniversary of operations at its Hesston manufacturing plant. In all, the Hesston factory turns out a combined total of about 42 machines of all types each day. And many of the components for those machines are fabricated right from flat steel on site, a process that […] Read more
(Dave Bedard photo)
Crops, Machinery

Ottawa moves to extend expanded rail interswitching

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Prairie crop growers hoping that changes in federal rail freight rules will continue past their expiration date are about to get their wish. Transport Minister Marc Garneau and Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay on Friday announced they would bring forward a resolution in Parliament to extend provisions of the previous government’s Bill C-30, the Fair Rail […] Read more

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