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We tested the trailer-towing ability of this Ford F150 , including the new Pro Trailer Backup Assist feature.
Machinery

Testing Ford’s Trailer Backup Assist

Does adding an auto-back up feature on to the package add value to this farm truck?

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Just about every producer is used to backing up towed machinery and trailers. It’s an everyday occurrence on the farm. But not everyone with a driver’s licence is capable of easily navigating a truck and trailer through the rear-view mirror. To help those directionally challenged drivers and anybody who would just like reversing a trailer […] Read more
Using your semi to haul in a profit
Crops, Features

Using your semi to haul in a profit

Now that you have a semi on the farm, is commercial grain hauling a viable money-maker?

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The next time you find yourself driving down any dirt road on the Prairies, take a look into the first (inhabited) farm yard you pass. And the next one. And the one after that. Chances are beyond the wind-whipped, tarp-covered shelter, the stock-piled ancient equipment and the friendly farm dog, you’ll notice a big rig. […] Read more
GM will offer a retrofit camera package for 2014 to 2016 Silverado trucks to make trailer towing easier and safer.
Machinery

GM offers retrofit trailering options

Rear view cameras and hitch packages available for 2014-2016 Silverado

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Farm pickups usually see their fair share of road miles with a trailer in tow, especially those owned by mixed farmers who almost always have a livestock trailer. This year the major pickup truck brands seem to be vying for attention from those who pull trailers by offering increasingly better option packages. When Ford introduced […] 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
Medium duty trucks with larger special service bodies are gaining popularity with producers.
Machinery

Make your in-field servicing easier

These custom-made truck bodies are designed to carry the shop right out to the field

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The silver service body mounted on a 335 Peterbilt at Automatic Truck and Trailer Sales’ display during the Manitoba Ag Days show was bound to make anyone green with envy. The large aluminum service body was custom built by Total Works Truck and Equipment in Brandon, according to Ray Lewis, sales rep for Automatic Truck […] Read more
The trucks were required to navigate test courses both on and off road.
Machinery

How the 2016 pickup trucks stack up

Grainews helped out with the judging at the 2016 Canadian Truck King Challenge

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When it’s time to bring home a new farm pickup truck, there are a lot of things to consider. For example, every new pickup on a dealer lot has a window sticker showing Transport Canada fuel mileage ratings. Trouble is, those mileage figures may not really reflect what a truck’s actual consumption will be on […] Read more
PHOTOS: PHOTO GALLERY: A look back at pickup trucks
Machinery

PHOTOS: PHOTO GALLERY: A look back at pickup trucks

How manufacturers tried to convince farmers to buy trucks in the ’60s

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Stacked! Built!” are the first two words in the body of this Mercury Trucks advertisement from the early 1960s. Clearly, they have that nudge-nudge-wink-wink feel to them. I’m pretty sure those terms had the same double entendre meaning back then that they do today. No current marketing manager would ever let that kind of ad […] Read more
The Silverado is available with three different engine options, a 4.3 V-6 along with 5.3 and 6.2 litre V-8s.
Machinery

A new face for the Silverado 1500

GM gives its Silverado truck a facelift and some digital updates for 2016

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The 2016 Silverado that GM sent to the Canadian Truck King Challenge in October was a preproduction model, so the event judges were among the first Canadians to get behind the wheel of one. Unfortunately because it was a preproduction model, it will soon be crushed; it can’t be sold. That’s a real shame, because […] Read more
Ford and drone developer DJI are looking to integrate UAV control into a pickup’s digital system for a variety of future applications, including agriculture.
Machinery

A Ford F150 sync’d to your UAV?

Ford issues a new “Drone-to-vehicle developer challenge” to software engineers

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James Bond has his special Aston Martin car complete with ejection seat and all kinds of high-tech gizmos. If Ford has its way, farmers may soon have an F150 pickup at their disposal that would make Q, Bond’s car creator, proud. Ford has been working with drone developer DJI and the two companies have launched […] Read more
The UniCrawler is designed to provide extra floatation for wheeled trailers moving across soft fields.
Machinery

UniCrawler adds more floatation

German manufacturer uses tracked carrier to keep trailers out of the mud

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Rubber track systems have been gaining a lot of interest in all areas of farm machinery design lately. But one German manufacturer, Annaburger, has taken the application of tracks a step beyond the usual tires-to-tracks conversion concept and created a floating chassis, which is designed to carry wheeled trailers across soft terrain. Tractor-drawn trailers are […] Read more

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