Bourgault Industries has announced two new hoe drills: the 3330 Standard Edition solid frame and the 3335 Quick Depth Adjust frame. Robert Fagnou, marketing specialist with Bourgault, gives details of the new Paralink Hoe Drill lineup's available opener options. Starting with the PLS or the paralink single; a two-to-one opener, which some may be very... Read More
Category: Machinery
Sometimes, when you're doing things a little differently, you just have to build what you need instead of buying it. Greg Vermeersch and his team at VanMeer Farms at Courtland, Ont., modified a planter frame to custom build a 32-row strip-till unit. It's a fair bit of engineering, and on this episode of The Sharp... Read More
CLAAS of America has launched the all-new LEXION 6000 series straw walker combines with two new models, targeted for small grain crops, such as wheat and canola. The straw walker combines will make it easier for farmers who want efficient separation without over threshing grain or damaging straw. Blake McOllough, product manager for combines with... Read More
John Deere has recently announced not only the new X Series of combine coming to North America, but also an entirely new header lineup including drapers, corn heads, and a belt pickup. Hot on the tails of the X9 announcement, RealAgriculture's Bernard Tobin sits down with John Deere's Harvesting Product Manager Matt Badding to talk... Read More
Concord has announced a new 39-foot model of its Precision Shank Drill (PSD) for 2021. The new size model offers the same benefits of the previously released PSD, but with a lower horsepower requirement to reach its potential seeding speed of 8 mph—originally 500 horsepower was required, but the new model only needs 425. "We're... Read More
John Deere is adding two new models of X Series combines to its 2021 harvesting lineup, the X9 1000 and X9 1100. A wider feeder house, dual separator, and the larger cleaning shoe differentiate the X Series from the S Series. "At the heart of the new combine is the X Series Dual Separator (XDS)... Read More
The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) has released its flash report for May 2020 new machinery deliveries. The trend from prior months has continued as Canadian sales are down significantly while U.S. sales are more stable to 2019. In both countries the under 40 hour power tractor category has been the strongest in comparison to... Read More