Bushel Plus conducts specialized training seminars or speaking engagements to help train farmers in how to optimize combine performance.

Learn to get the best performance from a combine

Bushel Plus Harvest Academy will run training programs for growers starting this year

When the weather is good during harvest, every grower wants the combine to get right to work. There is pressure to just keep it moving to cover as many acres as possible while the weather holds and accept whatever threshing performance it offers. But not taking time to pay close attention to combine settings can […] Read more


Case IH introduces three new combine models with upgraded features that will replace the current 7250, 8250 and 9250 models.

Case IH rolls out new Axial-Flow 260 Series combines

Three more new models debut for the 2025 growing season

In February, Case IH pulled the wraps off its Class 10-plus AF11 twin-rotor combine at the National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville, Kentucky, describing 2024 as the year of the combine. By mid-April the red brand had three more new models to debut, the 260 Series. “You can kind of see we’re calling it the […] Read more

Shortline implement manufacturers’ product lines may suffer from a lack of universal digital communication between machines and attachments.

Code clash limits header options

Digital lockouts by OEMs may begin forcing combine buyers to forgo shortline headers

For many farmers, pairing their favourite brand of combine with a header from a Prairie shortline manufacturer makes a preferred package. Recently, though, some OEMs have denied header manufacturers the command set code needed to link the header with some combine and swather models’ digital systems — which means buyers of those machines will have […] Read more


john deere tractor in field

Heading for a fully autonomous fleet by 2030

John Deere intends to offer a full suite of autonomous equipment in five years

As John Deere unveiled its 2025 model year product line in late February, it brought the company one year closer to a significant date: 2030. That’s when the brand has promised to be able to offer a complete fleet of autonomous equipment, able to handle a full farming season from seeding to harvest with self-driving […] Read more

front view of a geringhoff truflex razor header mounted on a claas combine

TruFlex Razor Draper header a “premium” design

Geringhoff header's features include air system, hydraulic drive, maximum flex

One of the European implement brands that have set up shop in North America in recent decades is Geringhoff, a combine header manufacturer based in Germany — and it’s offering Canadian producers a draper model its western Canadian territory manager, Lucas Haas, calls a premium design. Geringhoff’s TruFlex Razor Draper header offers some unique features […] Read more



Case IH is introducing the AF11 twin-rotor with Class 10-plus threshing capacity.

Case IH’s next combine goes to 11

The Class 10-plus AF11 debuts a twin-rotor design for the red brand

Following on the heels of the introduction of the CR11 combine from New Holland at the Agritechnica machinery show in Germany in November, sister brand Case IH has just introduced its version of that Class 10-Plus combine, the AF11. This red giant, with a 567-bushel grain hopper, was booked to make its first public appearance […] Read more


Big news from John Deere in 2025

Big news from John Deere in 2025

Bigger tractors, new combines and air carts debut for 2025 model year

With an eye catching announcement on February 28, John Deere takes the lead in the tractor horsepower race. It is introducing the most powerful four-wheel drive production ag tractor ever built, surpassing Case IH’s 715 horsepower Steiger, which only debuted this past fall and briefly held that record. With three new 9RX models, the 9RX […] Read more

VIDEO: Case IH’s new AF11 combine a ‘plus’

VIDEO: Case IH’s new AF11 combine a ‘plus’

Last week, Case IH debuted its new combine, the AF11, to the North American market at the National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville, Kentucky. At 775 horsepower and a 6 bu./sec unload rate, this ‘Class 10+’ offering saw no lack of attention on the show floor. In this video, Leo Bose, harvest marketing manager with […] Read more