John Deere crop sprayer

John Deere’s “nimble” sprayer

A new, smaller model joins the green brand’s 4 Series sprayer family

Producers have become pretty used to seeing ag equipment brands introduce consistently larger machines over the past few years. In February, however, John Deere announced a new, smaller and “nimble” self-propelled sprayer. The new R4023 fits in at the low end of the brand’s redesigned 4 Series models, and it replaces the older 4623. This […] Read more

hydroelectric power pole

Look up and stay safe

Overhead power lines are some of the most common 
causes of farm accidents. Be prepared on your farm

Do you have overhead power lines and guy wires around your farm? Do you know how high they really are from the ground? Are you confident that your equipment is low enough to avoid contact when transporting? How about in the fields or along the roads you travel? Some of the most common accidents in […] Read more


Spinning out with farm equipment

Winter is a time when trucks are often stuck on ice or packed snow. This is much different than being stuck in the mud and requires a bit of a change of perspective when it comes to getting them unstuck. Fast is slow — move slow, don’t lose more traction than you already have and […] Read more

Kubota tractor

Kubota launches the M7 Series

An entirely new line of tractors raises the orange brand’s horsepower limit to 170

More than a few head of Prairie cattle look forward every winter to seeing one of Kubota’s the orange machines bringing them out feed bales each day. But with a top horsepower rating on the brand’s most powerful model at the start of 2014 that kept it in the utility segment, the range of duties […] Read more


The VersaLoop offers easy maintenance and can move up to 6,000 bushels per hour.

New grain storage products from GSI

A new high-capacity bin and belt conveyor are the latest from AGCO’s GSI brand

AGCO’s grain storage and handling brand GSI had a couple of new products to introduce at the U.S. Farm Progress Show in Iowa last August. It added a new 40-Series, four-inch corrugated high-capacity grain bin and VersaLoop round tube chain conveyor to its list of products. GSI carried forward some of the features of the […] Read more

old man with a tractor

One tractor, with one owner

This restored 55 Massey-Harris 
spent all its 
life working 
for one family... until now

Frank Paul of Moosomin, Saskatchewan, and his restored 55 Massey-Harris tractor were quietly waiting in the corner of a local gas station parking lot when I first noticed them. The tractor was idling smoothly as Paul scanned the nearby highway. He was waiting for the truck that would come and pick up his tractor. He […] Read more


50-inch Michelin spraybib tire

Michelin’s Ultraflex ag tires

The brand showed off the benefits of its IF and VF radials during an event in France

Today’s ag tires may not be able to exactly match the reduced levels of compaction and floatation tracks offer, but Increased Flexion (IF) and Very High Flexion (VF) radial tires have narrowed the performance gap between tracks and tires considerably. IF tires are capable at operating at up to 20 per cent reduced air pressures […] Read more

lamborghini crawler 1962 advertisement

The slowest Lamborghini ever

The Lamborghini 1C crawler may have been the most interesting “classic” farm machine on display at the German farm show, Agritechnica

Typically, Germany’s Agritechnica machinery show concentrates on looking toward the future rather than the past when it comes to technology, so it doesn’t devote a lot of space to displays of historic farm equipment. But 2013 was the 100th anniversary of the diesel engine in agriculture, according to DLG’s (The German Agricultural Society’s) research, and […] Read more



JCB skid steer loader

JCB uses single loader boom

U.K.-based JCB has taken its own path with skid steer loaders

On first glance a JCB skid steer loader looks like any other, but it soon becomes apparent there are major differences between that brand’s design and the configuration that has become standard in the industry. Most notably, JCB uses only a single loader boom on the right side of the chassis. That allows the cab […] Read more