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Merlo retools
Features, Machinery

Merlo retools

The telehandler company is going through a major update of its product line and manufacturing facility

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As he stood in front of a group of Canadian dealers and customers at his Cuneo, Italy, facility, Amilcare Merlo, owner of the company that produces Merlo telehandlers, explained that his firm was in the midst of a 150 million Euro (C$208 million) reinvestment project. It’s aimed not only at updating the brand’s manufacturing facility, […] Read more
How to evaluate a diesel engine
Machinery

How to evaluate a diesel engine

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Are you thinking of buying a used tractor or other farm machine for next season? It’s only a few months before the spring auction sale season kicks off again, and there is no shortage of used machines on dealer lots to pick from right now. Buying used equipment can be a great way to add […] Read more
The newest and largest round baler to join the Kubota product line is the BV4580, which can make 1,800 pound, 5' x 6' bales.
Machinery

Kubota expands its line and grows again

The orange brand announced new acquisitions and new equipment in 2016

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Anyone who attended the Agri Trade farm show in Red Deer this fall will almost certainly have noticed some all-new Kubota equipment on display. At machinery shows all around North America in the past couple of years, the brand has certainly been making its presence known, showing an ever-expanding line of ag products. And executives […] Read more
The bushings slid into place in these leaf springs easily without damage.
Machinery

Cool it: cold temps for a smooth fit

How to use extreme changes in temperature to ease parts installation in your shop

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A variety of parts on ag equipment and vehicles are designed to have a friction or interference fit, which means components fit together so tightly they maintain their position relative to each other without any kind of fastener holding them in place. Bearing races, for example, remain fixed tightly in a housing this way. It’s […] Read more
German company Paul creates the Agro Mover by taking an off-the-shelf 480 horsepower Mercedes over-the-road truck and giving it systems typically found on 
an ag tractor. 

Machinery

PHOTOS: Multi-purpose trucks gaining popularity

German farmers and contractors find uses for a hybrid truck-tractor

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Germany is the birthplace of the Mercedes Benz Unimog, an ultra-capable, four-wheel drive vehicle that was designed to be equally as much a truck as a tractor. After the end of the Second World War, German farmers, short on cash, needed both tractors to work their fields and a truck to haul their produce and get them to the local […] Read more
Reimer’s driverless tractor pulls alongside a combine in the field.
Machinery

How to build a robotic tractor

A Manitoba farmer offers help to others who want to create an autonomous machine

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This past year Manitoba farmer Matthew Reimer announced he had successfully built his own robotic tractor to pull a grain cart at harvest time. Fully autonomous farm equipment is something the big equipment brands haven’t yet offered customers. But, the reality is they could. Only one small thing is holding them back: the risk of […] Read more
Crops

Input costs to chip away at farmers’ shrinking income

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CNS Canada — An anticipated downturn in farm income and higher input costs mean Canadian producers will be in a tough financial position this year, the head of the National Farmers Union (NFU) predicts. Farmers’ net cash income is expected to move lower in 2016, declining nine per cent to $13.6 billion in 2016, according […] Read more
JCB demonstrated how the new 4000 Series Fastrac can do double duty with a mounted sprayer kit.
Machinery, News

PHOTOS: Photo Gallery: Walking the aisles at Agritechnica

Grainews was at the world's largest farm machinery expo in Hanover, Germany

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It’s a little difficult to compare the Agritechnica farm machinery expo to the kinds of regional shows most Western Canadian farmers are familiar with. Aside from the sheer scale of the event which featured over 2,900 exhibitors this year, Agritechnica is in a league of its own and runs every second November in Hanover Germany. […] Read more
Machinery manufacturer and farmer Michael Horsch has adopted controlled traffic farming on the land he farms with his brother. 

Crops, Machinery

Machinery manufacturer adopts CTF

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More than 130 farmers, consultants and industry professionals visited Horsch’s 3,200 hectares Agrovation farm in the Czech Republic, as part of the second International CTF Conference, organized by CTF Europe and supported by Horsch, Trimble and Claas. Machinery manufacturer and farmer Michael Horsch has been an advocate of controlled traffic farming (CTF) for several years and so […] Read more
Dutch manufacturer Agrifac offers two model sizes capable of handling boom widths up to 180 feet.
Machinery

Agrifac brings sprayers to Canada

This Dutch manufacturer is making a play for a share of the Canadian sprayer market

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If you’ve been to the giant Agritechnica machinery show in Germany, you probably noticed Dutch-built Agrifac high-clearance sprayers on display. In the future, you’re likely to see them at North American shows as well. The company has recently decided to strike out beyond the European market. It previously launched in Australia, and now has its sights […] Read more

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