HANNOVER, Germany — Farm machinery sales in North America and Europe are lower than they were in 2013 and 2014 because farmers are sitting on their wallets. Companies will likely have to wait out the physical and taxation depreciations of the machinery that has already been bought unless they can give farmers a competitive edge, […] Read more
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From Canada to Russia with love
Not everything a farmer might find at the Agritechnica farm show in Germany will seem to make sense to broad acre producers from the semi-arid Prairie. A lot of tools are aimed specifically at vegetable country, and some of the biggest at the show are sugar beet machines. When I say big, I mean gigantic […] Read more
Big bales or little pellets, farmers can soon choose
HANNOVER, Germany — In modern times, forage has moved from field to feedyard in one of two ways — wet or dry, silage or bales — but another concept was introduced in Germany last week: pellets. There is a lot of competition at Agritechnica, the world’s largest farm show, to capture the imaginations of producers […] Read more
Machinery maker says sales strong
HARSEWINKEL, Germany — One of the world’s largest combines slowly made its way from a narrow, European country road into a field of well-aged corn. Traffic patiently waited for the big machine to clear the road and put up with it tossing a little chaff onto vehicles as it cut its way into the tightly […] Read more
Video: Farmers get inside scoop as tractor torn to pieces
Agritechnica technicians dismantle machine
HANOVER, Germany — Working in a giant, German fishbowl, mech-anics tore a perfectly good tractor down to its parts. “Farmers love their machinery. They always want to know what goes on inside a piece of machinery,” farm equipment engineer Raffaele Talarico said about his project to show off what makes a modern tractor tick. “No […] Read more
Stealth tractors and giraffe-patterned mulchers
– posted Saturday November 16, 2013 For those of you wondering if there are any farm implement manufacturers who offer equipment painted to look like the hide of a giraffe, the answer is yes. Friday was our last full day at AgriTechnica and, among other things, I wanted to take as much time as possible […] Read more
