Machinery

The thought of starting up a high-horsepower tractor during cold winter weather makes many Prairie farmers cringe, due to the higher risk of engine and transmission damage from reduced lubrication. But there are a select few ag tractors in the world that see nothing but cold weather operation, and they’re put to work on a […] Read more

Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show, held near Woodstock in southern Ontario, 
puts emphasis on practical demonstrations

With over 700 exhibitors in a 50 acre outdoor park, Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show — held near Woodstock, Ont., on September 11, 12 and 13 this year — can certainly rival its western cousin, Canada’s Farm Progress Show, in scale. And while the Ontario show certainly hasn’t been around as long as the classic Regina event, […] Read more

I have been doing barnyard paint jobs for over 40 years,” says John Mikal, who, along with his family operates River View Farms north of Sundre, Alta. “I taught my son, so he does most of them now.” And one of the latest projects to come out the family’s “barnyard” painting program is this 1952 […] Read more

If something works for you, you stick with it. That seems to be the best explanation for the 25-year production run of Case IH’s line of Magnum tractors. The company is now celebrating that silver anniversary with a limited production run of 100 special edition tractors. Over the next few months, those 2013 model-year, 340, […] Read more

AGCO’s newly-expanded Jackson, MN, assembly plant is now home to 
mid-range Massey Ferguson and Challenger-brand tractor production

When Massey Ferguson had its near-death experience in the late 1980s, the Detroit-area production facility that built the bulk of its North American tractor models was permanently closed. After that, MF tractor assembly was relegated to plants in Europe; and its combine business was splintered off and sold to Western Combines Corp, which began building and marketing MF combine designs […] Read more

Most tractors built in 1949 are likely now more at home in a museum than a farm field, but not this classic Allis Chalmers G. It looks good enough to be a museum piece. But after getting a complete restoration and some updating, it now tends the very large garden plots on the Netley Hutterite Colony near […] Read more