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We’re comparing New Holland’s T6030 and its contemporaries in this market review.
Machinery

Utility tractor comparison shopping

We compare some buying choices for late-model,100-plus horsepower tractors

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In our market review this time we’re focusing on late-model tractors just above the 100 horsepower mark, something ideal for livestock producers. We picked models that mate well with a front-end loader, are nimble enough to manoeuvre around livestock pens and still powerful enough to handle haying operations in the field. As usual we’re relying […] Read more
The MC4500 brings the maximum cutting width in Vermeer’s line of of mower-conditioners to 15 feet.
Forages, Machinery

A larger mower conditioner from Vermeer

The MC4500 pushes the brand’s widest cutting width to 15 feet

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Vermeer announced in September that it was stretching the maximum cutting width on its line of mower conditioner models to 15 feet. To do that it introduced the new MC4500, which becomes the fourth and widest model in the brand’s mo-co line. “The MC4500 mower conditioner brings more size, speed, versatility and reliability to the […] Read more
AGCO’s Fendt brand debuted the 500 Vario Series tractors at an event in Germany in 2012. As of this year, they are available in Canada.
Machinery

Fendt 500 Varios arrive in Canada

AGCO brings the compact-chassis 500 Vario Series tractors to North America

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AGCO used this summer’s U.S. Farm Progress Show in Illinois as the venue to finally debut the 107- to 137-PTO horsepower Fendt 500 Vario Series tractors in North America. The models were first introduced in September of 2012 in Germany for the European market, but at that time brand executives explained it would take a […] Read more
Agronic Multibalers compress chopped silage into round bales and wrap them, so silage can be stored as bales rather than in a silage pit.
Machinery

This is a real silage baler

Agronic Multibaler turns chopped silage into round bales

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When you’re walking the aisles at the giant Agritechnica machinery show in Hanover, Germany, you sometimes have to stop and do a double take to figure just what some machines displayed there actually do. That was the case for me when I spotted the Agronic Multibaler. Built by a company in the Netherlands, the two models […] Read more
An Autonomous Greenbot tractor with attached roto-tiller on display at Agritechnica. 

Machinery

Heading toward autonomy

On display at Agritechnica: a driverless Dutch-built tractor hits the market

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General purpose, completely autonomous (driverless) tractors may be the holy grail of farm equipment design. And over the past few years a wide variety of companies have offered farmers enticing glimpses of what the future may hold in that area. There have been a number of limited-use robotic machines introduced to do specific tasks on […] Read more
VIDEO: Driverless tractors and open-source software
Crops, News

VIDEO: Driverless tractors and open-source software

Reimer Robotics takes first prize in Manitoba Ag Days Inventors' Showcase

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Matthew Reimer was as surprised as anyone when he was awarded first prize for his driverless tractor system at Manitoba Ag Days in Brandon on Jan. 20, but his invention is worthy of the title. The Inventors’ Showcase winner, and president of Reimer Robotics, has built a system to move tractors – driverless no less, with […] Read more
The SW 4014 bale wrapper from Kuhn uses an autoload feature which allows the tractor to continue moving while the bale is loaded, wrapped and set back down.
Hay, Machinery

Kuhn debuts high-speed bale wrapper

The SW 4014 offers non-stop field travel and can wrap square or round bales

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Engineers at Kuhn must be busy clearing wall space in their offices to hang all the awards the company’s new SW 4014 bale wrapper has picked up lately. When the company displayed it at Germany’s Agritechnica in November it raked in a Silver Innovation award. Earlier in the year it won an AE50 award here […] Read more
Case IH’s newest tillage offering is the True-Tandem 375 disc, available in working widths up to 37 feet.
Machinery

Case IH introduces the True-Tandem 375

New disc harrow lets farmers configure the implement to meet their needs

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For those who want to continue to use — or return to using — tillage in their operation, Case IH has just introduced a new tandem disc model, the True-Tandem 375, which gives growers another tillage tool to consider when shopping for an implement. Despite the fact there is certainly a lot to choose from […] Read more
Lemken stretches the Heliodor
Machinery

Lemken stretches the Heliodor

The compact 
disc now available in 
a 52-foot working width

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Lemken reps were proud to display the latest version of the Heliodor high-speed, compact disc at Canada’s Farm Progress Show last June. The company has now increased the maximum working width of the Heliodor from 40 to 52 feet, which company reps say is a direct result of feedback from Canadian broad-acre farmers who have high-horsepower […] Read more
This 500 horsepower, two-wheel drive tractor was built in 1979 to work on the Honey Brothers’ farm near Bracken, Saskatchewan.
Machinery

PHOTOS: 1979 Honey tractor

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Before Greg Honey and his brother Glenn went into the ag equipment manufacturing business, they decided they needed a very high horsepower tractor for their farm near Bracken, Saskatchewan. This tractor built in 1979 was the result and it’s still turning heads today at farm shows.  

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