Fendt expands its tractor assembly plant

AGCO’s Fendt brand opened the doors to its all-new, high-tech assembly plant in Bavaria and invited the public to take a look

Farmers in Western Canada can be forgiven if they don’t know a lot about the Fendt brand of tractors; they’re thin on the ground in this part of the world, to say the least. “Fendt tractors are a true premium product,” says Reid Hamre, North American brand manager for Fendt. “They’re for the customer who […] Read more

Reviewing the Fendt 714 Vario

Ern and Monica Pethick of McAuley, Manitoba, were looking for something out of the ordinary when they purchased their first Fendt 714 Vario tractor about four years ago. A back injury suffered many years ago meant bouncing around in a tractor could be pretty uncomfortable for Ern, so the suspension systems on Fendt-brand tractors that […] Read more


Ford introduces the Atlas concept pickup

To showcase new technology and innovation in truck design, Ford unveiled 
the Atlas at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit

On many farms there are two pickup trucks. The reasonably new one that ferries kids to hockey games and makes shopping trips to the city, and an older one that lugs a fuel tank and tools back and forth from the field. If there is 20 or more years age difference between those two, the […] Read more

Reinventing the combine

“This is the fourth generation of machines that can carry much more clean grain,” says Ben Dillon, general manager of Tribine Industries, as he stands beside his latest prototype combine, which has a 1,000-bushel grain tank capacity. “The first generation was just based on pulling a grain cart around. But I quickly learned the rear […] Read more


Cargill cleared to muffle Vancouver grain terminal

Port Metro Vancouver has granted Cargill the go-ahead on a project it hopes will dial down the noise outside the company’s grain terminal on Vancouver’s North Shore. The company said Tuesday it has received its project permits from the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority (VFPA) to set up four sound-absorbing barriers on the trackshed rooftops on […] Read more



Alta. farms’ diesel discount cancelled in budget

A "distribution allowance" that gave Alberta’s farmers a six-cent-per-litre break on diesel fuel for farm use is a casualty of Thursday’s provincial budget, effective immediately. Finance Minister Doug Horner’s 2013-14 budget eliminates the farm fuel distribution allowance portion of the province’s Farm Fuel Benefit Program, ending a benefit which cost the province an estimated $32.5 […] Read more

HayEast’s government funding expires

The HayEast drive to get Prairie hay to livestock producers in parched regions of Ontario and Quebec is expected to continue past the expiry of its government funding. "Government funds have expired, but organizers are still assessing how many more farmers we can continue to help before the private donations run out," Mark Wales, president […] Read more


National grains biosecurity standard launched

A new voluntary standard for biosecurity on Canada’s grain- and oilseed-producing farms is expected to help growers build or improve on their existing farmgate-level systems at any scale. "While some pieces of this may already be common practice, I think many producers will pick up some new tips as well to help prevent the spread […] Read more

Mississippi River rock removal project completed

Barge shipping on the middle Mississippi River returned to normal on Thursday for the first time since December as rain and snowmelt revived the drought-hit waterway and government engineers completed a two-month riverbed rock removal project. The worst U.S. drought in a half century sapped the major shipping artery and fuelled concerns that barge shipments […] Read more