New Holland’s CR10 combine

New Holland’s twin rotor combine design rings in 50 years

CR10 combine, new corn header come to National Farm Machinery Show

Celebrating 50 years in any event – combines or otherwise – is an achievement worthy or recognition, and this is the case as New Holland celebrates the golden anniversary of its twin rotor design this year. New Holland’s twin rotor design hit the machinery market in 1975 with its TR70 combine. A lot of change […] Read more

VIDEO: John Deere product updates from the Commodity Classic farm show

VIDEO: John Deere product updates from the Commodity Classic farm show

At the Commodity Classic farm show in Denver, Colorado, in early March, John Deere had several new machinery updates to announce. Here, Bergen Nelson, John Deere go-to-market-manager for harvest equipment, talks about new automation features and header design improvements for Deere combines, Christopher Murray, technology marketing for John Deere, talks about the new Rate Controller […] Read more


Claas introduced the Lexion 8900 Terra Trac at the Ag in Motion farm show in July. The model on display had a special appearance celebrating 500,000 combines built since the company began producing them in 1936.

Lexion 8900 Terra Trac wins AE50 award

Claas’ newest combine takes home an engineering award from ASABE

Glacier FarmMedia — At the National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville, Kentucky in February, several ag equipment brand executives will be accepting their AE50 engineering awards from the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE). Claas executives were expected to be among that group, to pick up three awards for innovations on two different […] Read more

Jason Waldenberger’s combine in action right after his Seed Terminator was installed in the field.

What the weed seed smasher survey says

Farmers share insights from working with weed seed control technology

A recent study conducted by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada provides a glimpse into why some Canadian producers are using harvest weed seed control, the effectiveness of the technology and some of the challenges associated with it. The 49-question online survey was conducted between the spring and fall of 2023. A total of 10 producers from […] Read more


Vintage John Deere Combine

VIDEO: Sask. farmers gather to run vintage combines

Every fall a group of local farmers get together in a field near Milden, Saskatchewan, to have some fun running vintage combines from the 1950s and 1960s. This year the event included a recently restored Roto-thresh combine along with an assortment of other machines including models from John Deere, Massey-Ferguson and Case. There was also a […] Read more

Razors Edge concaves use a variable spacing design and sharpened, notched bars which improve threshing performance, according to the company.

New aftermarket rotary combine concaves designed for all crops

Variable spacing on Thunderstruck Ag's Razors Edge concaves eliminates need for cover plates

Having one set of combine concaves that can handle all seed sizes efficiently without the use of cover plates can be a timesaver when switching fields. Winkler, Man.-based Thunderstruck Ag has just introduced its own Razors Edge concave design to make that a possibility. “We’ve been working with concaves for the last seven years and […] Read more