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Should I buy or lease that combine?

Angela Lovell asks the experts if buying or leasing is best for new equipment purchases

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Should I lease or buy my next combine? Ask most people why they want to lease equipment and they’ll say “for tax purposes.” But that’s not the best reason for leasing, say the experts. “If you’re leasing a combine for $10,000 a year, you get an annual write-off of the full $10,000 a year over […] Read more
Putting up to 500 horsepower in a rigid-frame chassis, the new Fendt 1000 Series occupies an all-new tractor category.
Machinery, News

An entirely new tractor

The high-horsepower, rigid-frame Fendt 1000 Series is in a category of its own

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Two years ago AGCO introduced the all-new 1000 Series rigid-frame tractor to the world with a big splash, using Bavaria’s spectacular Neuschwanstein Castle as the backdrop for the press event. The brand recently followed up on that European introduction with a more conventional official launch of these machines in North America at the National Farm […] Read more
Reimer’s driverless tractor pulls alongside a combine in the field.
Machinery

How to build a robotic tractor

A Manitoba farmer offers help to others who want to create an autonomous machine

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This past year Manitoba farmer Matthew Reimer announced he had successfully built his own robotic tractor to pull a grain cart at harvest time. Fully autonomous farm equipment is something the big equipment brands haven’t yet offered customers. But, the reality is they could. Only one small thing is holding them back: the risk of […] Read more
This robot is designed to work fields on its own and mechanically kill weeds.
Machinery

Robotic weed control

Deepfield Robotics is stamping out weeds, one at a time

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The future of weed control could quite possibly be a convergence of cutting-edge robotics with good old-fashioned muscle. Deepfield Robotics may not be a common name in the field of agriculture, but the small start-up company has under development an innovative solution for weed control. While the company itself has no more than a couple […] Read more
SeedMaster’s Windows-based, 8-inch Axis Tablet comes with five cameras to aid in implement control.
Machinery

New digital technology from SeedMaster

Axis Tablet provides video implement monitoring and online access

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With seeding equipment as large and complex as it is, using remote cameras to monitor critical systems has become one of the most efficient ways to ensure everything is functioning as it should. Waiting until a refill stop to find a problem could mean leaving a lot of unseeded strips. Reseeding them is a real […] Read more
Setter Manufacturing of Russell, Manitoba, offers a line of sprayer systems designed to work on a typical UTV.
Machinery

UTV sprayers for spot applications

With these small-scale systems, producers can target specific areas from a UTV

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Today’s high-clearance farm sprayers come equipped with boom widths of 100 feet or more, which makes getting them into sharp corners or tight places pretty difficult. And with some precision ag data collection systems now able to pinpoint small problem weed areas in a field, spraying them with very wide booms may mean wasting product. […] Read more
Setter Manufacturing of Russell, Manitoba, offers a line of sprayer systems designed to work on a typical UTV.
Machinery

PHOTOS: Small-scale sprayers offer targeted weed killing

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Today’s high-clearance farm sprayers come equipped with boom widths of 100 feet or more, which makes getting them into sharp corners or tight places pretty difficult. And with some precision ag data collection systems now able to pinpoint small problem weed areas in a field, spraying them with very wide booms may mean wasting product. […] Read more
Medium duty trucks with larger special service bodies are gaining popularity with producers.
Machinery

Make your in-field servicing easier

These custom-made truck bodies are designed to carry the shop right out to the field

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The silver service body mounted on a 335 Peterbilt at Automatic Truck and Trailer Sales’ display during the Manitoba Ag Days show was bound to make anyone green with envy. The large aluminum service body was custom built by Total Works Truck and Equipment in Brandon, according to Ray Lewis, sales rep for Automatic Truck […] Read more
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Crops, Machinery

Farm groups rail against revenue cap proposal

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CNS Canada –– A key proposal in the recently released Canada Transportation Act review on Canada’s transport systems is getting thumbs down from several Prairie farm groups. The Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan (APAS) disagrees with the report’s recommendation for a seven-year phase-out of the maximum revenue entitlement (MRE), an annual upper limit on the […] Read more

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