Western Producer Winnipeg bureau staff writer Ron Lyseng attended the Big Iron Show in Fargo, North Dakota, to investigate what’s new in the field of farm equipment.
Big Iron is mainly a show for dryland farm equipment, similar to the Western Canada Farm Progress Show in Regina and Red Deer’s Agri-Trade. Big Iron features the latest farm equipment from south of the 49th parallel as well as exhibitors from the Canadian Prairies.
A growing number of Canadians make the trip to Big Iron each year and much of the American equipment and the new tools find their way onto prairie farms.
Two features Lyseng will bring readers in coming issues include an experimental Agco M5 diesel tractor that runs on hydrogen and the growing practice of strip tillage, which is gradually moving our way from the U.S. Plains.
Here is a photo preview of machinery stories Lyseng found at the Big Iron Show, held Sept. 9-11.
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