We look at how manufacturers have packaged technology, traction and horsepower into the high-horsepower farm tractors they offer in the Canadian marketplace.
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What’s new for 300-plus-horsepower tractors in 2026
Technology, traction, horsepower: we look at how manufacturers have packaged those features into their high-horsepower farm machines for the Canadian market
PTx Trimble rolling out new guidance controller
Improved and more capable NAV-960 replaces the NAV-900
The NAV-960 will be the base platform to handle features PTx Trimble expects to offer in the future, including implement applications.
New Case IH guidance tech keeps implements on track
Active Implement Guidance designed to greatly reduce or eliminate drift in the field
Case IH’s Active Implement Guidance shares guidance line data between your implement and your tractor, to help hold implements to the tractor’s course and prevent drift on uneven terrain or turns.
Fendt ErgoSteer brings joystick steering control to tractors
A retrofit option offers a second type of steering input for operators
A few years ago, Agco’s Fendt brand replaced the steering wheel on its Ideal combines with a joystick control. In 2024 it introduced a retrofit kit that can bring joystick steering control to Fendt tractors, too. That system just won Agco an AE50 award for its design. “It’s 100 per cent retrofittable,” says Daniel Smith, […] Read more
Kubota to expand in-house guidance system offering
The brand’s current open architecture also allows for third-party guidance options
As Kubota continues to move toward being an ever-more-significant player in the ag equipment market, its two highest-horsepower tractor lines now come auto guidance-ready. The brand recognizes many of the farms that use its tractors are also likely to have other major brand machinery and already use the auto-guidance systems those companies provide. So Kubota […] Read more
More guidance outages possible this growing season
Newer GPS receivers may prove more reliable during intense solar storms
In spring many producers lost GPS signals and were forced to go old-school and actually use the steering wheel — or shut down until service was restored. That interruption was caused by intense solar flare activity, creating outages across most of North America. It may not be the only GPS interruption producers can expect through […] Read more
Editor’s Rant: Planning for failure
Since this issue of Grainews is supposed to be on the press in two hours or less, there’s a good chance this week that I’ll either be very brief in this space, or not nearly brief enough. I really loathe leaving things like this to the last minute, but this past week didn’t work out […] Read more
A quantum-sensing startup gets Deere backing
John Deere's Startup Collaborator program helps new companies develop, explore innovative tech
Glacier FarmMedia — A Canadian firm that uses quantum sensing to improve navigation for autonomous vehicles is among six start-up companies from around the world that will be collaborating with John Deere. “This is a perfect opportunity to find a technology that’s really interesting that may have a large application to solving customer problems that […] Read more
Deere introduces AutoTrac-ready Gators
The green brand brings auto steer to its UTVs
It goes without saying that GPS auto-steer capability on ag equipment is a pretty ordinary feature these days, but John Deere is now bringing that technology to a machine you might not have expected to find it on, the Gator UTV. “John Deere is enabling the productivity gains farmers have seen while using AutoTrac technology on […] Read more
Kubota to buy autosteer maker AgJunction
All-cash deal worth about $91 million
Autosteer and ag equipment guidance system maker AgJunction is poised to sell itself to farm equipment maker Kubota Corp. in a $91 million all-cash deal. Publicly-traded AgJunction, which is registered in Calgary but based at Scottsdale, Ariz., said Thursday its board has unanimously approved Kubota’s 75-cents-per-share proposal and recommended shareholders vote in favour. AgJunction would […] Read more
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