John Deere’s line of wheeled 9R tractors grows by one to a total of six for 2015, and all models get a variety of updates and an all-new options list.

John Deere 9R tractors get new features

Active Command Steering and HydraCushion Suspension 
among new options for Deere’s articulated tractors

In August, John Deere revealed its full 2015 model lineup to dealers and the media at a convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. And in true Deere fashion, the official introduction show was a spectacle to behold. The company had a lot to show off. There was a long parade of new machines to see, but what […] Read more

photo: scott garvey

Fendt 900 Series tractors offer updated features for 2014

AGCO included its German-built Fendt tractors 
in a product demonstration day in Minnesota

When AGCO invited members of the farm media to its Jackson, Minnesota, tractor and sprayer assembly plant to look at new equipment, it didn’t limit what was on display to only machines built in there. Management also wanted to show off the newest models in its German-built Fendt tractor line, including a 900 Series tractor […] Read more



Canada’s Farm Progress Show was chosen as the venue for the North American debut of McCormick’s new six-model line of X7 MFWD tractors.

McCormick debuts X7 tractors

Introduced at Germany’s Agritechnica last November, the first X7 Series tractors to arrive in North America were on display at Canada’s Farm Progress Show in June

Here in Canada, farmers didn’t hear a lot of news from McCormick during the past couple of years. But as it turns out, the brand that is part of Italian company ARGO’s stable had been quietly working on developing an entirely new series of mid-range, MFWD tractors with a wider range of options and broader […] Read more



An 18-degree gang angle and shallow disc concavity helps provide a more aggressive field finish along with good soil and residue mixing

Sunflower vertical tillage tools set to go high-tech

AGCO calls its 6631 Series vertical tillage tools “second generation of the second generation”

Vertical tillage implements have undergone an evolution, according to Larry Kuster, AGCO’s Sunflower brand marketing manager. They’ve changed to better deal with tough trash problems but still keep that ability to lift and mix soil and trash. Standing beside a Sunflower 6631 vertical tillage implement and talking to a group of farm journalists in a field outside […] Read more


(Dave Bedard photo)

CP meeting federal grain shipment targets

Reuters — Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) has met the minimum weekly grain volumes mandated by the federal government, the railway said Thursday, a day after Transport Canada said it would fine Canadian National Railway (CN) for falling short. CP spokeswoman Breanne Feigel said in an email that the railway had cleared the minimum volumes to […] Read more



Bradly Barry Kowalczyk. (RCMP handout photo)

Man sought on alleged ag equipment scams

Police in Alberta and Saskatchewan are looking for a 31-year-old man wanted on fraud charges stemming from allegedly unfulfilled online ads for farm equipment. Bradly Barry Kowalczyk is wanted on warrants from Calgary and the Three Hills, Chestermere, Crowsnest Pass, Viking, St. Paul and Olds areas of Alberta on charges relating to fraud over $5,000, […] Read more

(Photo courtesy CN)

CN to be fined for under-hauling grain

Canadian National Railway (CN) is set to be fined for allegedly failing to meet its now-mandatory minimum weekly grain handle. The as-yet unspecified penalty would be the first under the federal Fair Rail for Grain Farmers Act passed earlier this year. [Related story] The Act requires CN and Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) to move a minimum […] Read more