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Fendt 900 Series tractors offer updated features for 2014

AGCO included its German-built Fendt tractors 
in a product demonstration day in Minnesota

When AGCO invited members of the farm media to its Jackson, Minnesota, tractor and sprayer assembly plant to look at new equipment, it didn’t limit what was on display to only machines built in there. Management also wanted to show off the newest models in its German-built Fendt tractor line, including a 900 Series tractor […] Read more

Canada’s Farm Progress Show was chosen as the venue for the North American debut of McCormick’s new six-model line of X7 MFWD tractors.

McCormick debuts X7 tractors

Introduced at Germany’s Agritechnica last November, the first X7 Series tractors to arrive in North America were on display at Canada’s Farm Progress Show in June

Here in Canada, farmers didn’t hear a lot of news from McCormick during the past couple of years. But as it turns out, the brand that is part of Italian company ARGO’s stable had been quietly working on developing an entirely new series of mid-range, MFWD tractors with a wider range of options and broader […] Read more


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New Holland unveils “Golden Jubilee” T6 and T7 tractors

To celebrate the 50th anniversary 
of one of its tractor assembly 
plants, the company released 
special edition models

Fifty years ago, on May 15, 1964, Ford’s farm equipment division opened a tractor assembly plant in Basildon, England. Since then, that facility has been in continuous operation churning out tractors. However, ownership of the company gradually changed, evolving into the current New Holland. To mark the Basildon factory’s golden anniversary, NH recently unveiled the limited […] Read more

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AGCO introduces new tractors

New models unveiled at U.S. farm shows last February

At farm shows in Kentucky and California, AGCO pulled the wraps off new tractor models in all three of its North American brands: Massey Ferguson, Challenger and Fendt. The all-new 8700 Series Masseys, which will replace the existing 8600s, made their debut at the World Ag Expo in Tulare, California. The new five-model line will […] Read more


Electric implement drives still appearing at Agritechnica

Manufacturers have been showing concept machines equipped with electric implement control at the show since 2009. This year was no exception

Aside from displaying new, market-ready machines, some manufacturers again used Germany’s Agritechnica machinery show to provide a glimpse into the engineering future. Tractors and equipment designed to use high-voltage electricity to power implement drives instead of traditional PTO or hydraulic systems have been appearing at the event since 2009. There were more concept machines advancing that technology […] Read more