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Bobcat has jumped into the lower end of the utility-class tractor market with three new models offering 66 and 74 horsepower.

Bobcat introduces utility-class tractors

Brand stretches its horsepower range with 66- and 74-hp models

By Scott Garvey November 19, 2024

This summer Bobcat added three new tractor models to its lineup. It had been offering compact and sub-compact models, but it’s now made a foray into the higher-horsepower utility category with the UT6000 Series. “We entered into production and started shipping in July,” Bobcat’s product specialist Jonathan Widmer says. “They’re new — three different models. […] Read more

JCB's side-entry cab and extendable-reach single boom make it skid steer models unique.

Equipment, Machinery

Hydrostatic-powershift transmission among latest from JCB

JCB shows three different on-farm handling machines with model updates

By Scott Garvey May 6, 2024

In recent years there have been a few machines introduced to the market that aim to take jobs away from the typical loader tractor. And England-based JCB has been providing farmers with some of them. This year the brand showed three different machines at the Commodity Classic farm show in Houston in February carrying the […] Read more

Case IH Magnums will get more horsepower for model year 2025, along with two complete digital technology packages direct from the factory.

Equipment, Machinery

Case IH updates its Magnum tractor line

Expect more horsepower and digital technology for the 2025 model year

By Scott Garvey March 23, 2024

At the Commodity Classic farm show in Houston in February, Case IH unveiled its new 2025 model year Magnum tractor line. And in keeping with the industry trend of horsepower creep-up, these tractors, too, see a few more ponies stabled under their hoods. “The 380 and the 400 both get five additional horsepower,” says Morgan […] Read more

File photo of a farmed mink. (Konstantin Sokolov/iStock/Getty Images)

Livestock

Canada’s mink farms brace for COVID

Producers have had time to increase biosecurity efforts at the farm level

By GFM Network News November 27, 2020

Canada’s 40 mink farms are operating under heightened biosecurity requirements after reports of COVID-19 jumping from humans to mink in Europe. Alan Herscovici, an industry spokesperson who operates the website Truthaboutfur.com, said early reports out of Denmark and other European countries gave Canadian producers some time to prepare. “These farms have always had a certain […] Read more

Livestock, Reuters

Dutch to cull mink at farms hit by COVID-19 outbreak

Order follows mink-to-human virus transmissions

By GFM Network News June 3, 2020

Amsterdam | Reuters — The Dutch government on Wednesday ordered mink culled at nine farms where animals have been infected with the coronavirus, fearing they could form a reservoir of disease infecting humans after the country’s current outbreak has passed. “Clearing the infected farms is in the interest of both human health and animal health,” […] Read more

Livestock, Reuters

Mink infected two humans with COVID-19, Dutch government says

By GFM Network News May 25, 2020

Amsterdam | Reuters — Mink with the coronavirus have infected two people in the Netherlands in what are probably the first such cases of transmission during the epidemic, government and health authorities said on Monday. Mink carrying the virus were found on four of the 155 farms in the country where they are bred for […] Read more

A 2013 Ford F-150. (Ford Media video screengrab via YouTube)

General, Machinery, Reuters

Ford recalls 1.48 million pickups over transmissions

By GFM Network News February 13, 2019

Washington | Reuters — Ford Motor Co. said on Wednesday it was recalling about 1.48 million F-150 pickup trucks in North America due to a potential transmission downshift issue that could increase the risk of a crash. Ford said select 2011-2013 model year trucks with six-speed automatic transmission could experience an unintended downshift into first […] Read more

Case IH held a media event at its Grand Island, Nebraska, combine assembly plant to introduce its two new combine lines. These retro-styled 150 Series machines are being offered in limited numbers to commemorate 40 years of the Axial-Flow IH machines.

Machinery

Case IH introduces the 250 Series combines

The next generation Case IH combines debuted at Grand Island factory

By Scott Garvey September 1, 2018

In July Case IH invited members of the farm media to the combine assembly plant it shares with sister CNH Global brand New Holland in Grand Island, Nebraska. That’s where the brand wanted to give journalists their first look at the new 250 Series models. Available for the 2019 season, the 250 Series offers a […] Read more

Hogs, Livestock

Path of Manitoba PED infections tough to track

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News May 26, 2017

Officials investigating a recent spate of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) cases in southeastern Manitoba hog barns aren’t yet seeing a clear picture of how the virus is spreading from site to site. The province’s chief veterinary officer on Thursday confirmed positive tests for PED at a finisher operation in the same area as five previous […] Read more

General, Machinery, Reuters

Ford recalls F-250s that could roll while in park

By Reuters, GFM Network News April 1, 2017

New York | Reuters — Ford Motor Co. is recalling about 52,600 F-250 pickup trucks sold in the U.S. and Canada because the vehicles could roll after the driver moves the automatic transmission lever into park position, the company said on Saturday. The recall, the third announced by Ford this week, affects 2017 model year […] Read more

Daily Network News

USDA attachés forecast some changes in China’s oilseeds, cereals

China urges hog producers to manage output, vows timely reserve adjustments

Farm Credit Canada offers aid to farmers, companies affected by Iran war price spikes

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