Red Deer — John Deere has focused on operator comfort in its latest design for the Gator utility vehicle. The gas-powered Gator XUV835 and the diesel-powered Gator XUV865 have three-wide seating, as well as heat and air conditioning in versions that come equipped with the cabs. “All the cabs will be plug and play,” said […] Read more
Robin Booker
Stories by Robin Booker
New Holland steals best combine features for sprayer cab
RED DEER — The most obvious change to New Holland’s latest model of Guardian Front Boom sprayer, the SP310F, is the redesigned cab. “This is the first time that New Holland has built a cab for their sprayers,” said Don Keller of New Holland during Agri-Trade in Red Deer. “You won’t find this cab on […] Read more
Sorting the good from the bad
RED DEER — A simple grain cleaner has shown results when it comes to cleaning vomitoxin out of cereal seed. Grain Cleaning LLC offers a series of cleaners that push an airstream through a curtain of grain. Heavier material drops through openings near the airstream’s origin, while lighter material is blown through openings further across […] Read more
Case powers up with new transmissions
The constant variable transmission allows operators to preset speeds and let the CVX Drive pick the most efficient range
RED DEER — Case IH’s Steiger high-horsepower tractors are more powerful than previous versions because of two new transmission offerings — A CVX Drive Series that includes a constant variable transmission, as well as a redesigned powershift transmission. “We just introduced a new constant variable transmission that go in our tractors from 370 h.p. up […] Read more
Farmers must foster weed seed eaters
Crickets and ground beetles are effective predators, often found in shelterbelts and outer strips of the field
If farmers hear crickets out in their fields they should consider themselves fortunate because that’s the sound of free weed-seed control. “If you hear the crickets, that means the carabids are out. All of the sounds you hear in the evenings, that’s weed-seed predation,” said Chris Willenborg during his presentation at the Saskatchewan Pulse Growers […] Read more
New Holland tweaks latest class of combines
RED DEER — New Holland has a 700 horsepower combine coming off of its 2018 production line, the CR10.90 Revelation. There are updates common to all classes of the Revelation model combines, but only the largest CR10.90 series will receive a bump in horsepower. “The Class 10 combine does get a power bump for model […] Read more
MacDon headers get more fingers for bulky crops
The company says this aggressive attack on the crop has increased header feeding capacity by 20 percent
RED DEER — MacDon recently displayed examples of its new One Series headers at Agri-Trade in Red Deer, which includes a full range of flex and rigid headers. Included in the new lineup is a model number change with the size of the headers now part of the new designations. At the MacDon booth was […] Read more
Higher power = greater efficiency
There are active farmers who can remember a time when a 200 horsepower tractor was considered big. When it comes to planting a crop today, most broad-acre growers are sitting on machines that have two or three times that amount of power. As farms added acres over the past decades, the pressure to cover more […] Read more
Twin tracks brought tracks back to ag
Caterpillar pioneered tracked farm implements with its Challenger tractor in 1989; the industry was never the same after that
Caterpillar started selling a tracked offering of its Challenger tractor in 1987, and this first tracked tractor on the market proved to be a game changer. Never before were producers able to get that much power to the ground and maintain traction, forcing other tractor manufacturers to the drawing table to draft a response to […] Read more
Deere’s RX fulfills requests for tracks
Few brands inspire the loyalty that John Deere does. Even in the face of fierce competition from rivals with solid equipment lineups, it would be blasphemous on some multi-generational farms to park anything other than a green machine in the yard. “The quality of our machines is what our customers have come to love and […] Read more
