AGCO has introduced the Fendt 900 Series tractors at the 2019 Farm Progress Show at Decatur, Illinois, and RealAgriculture's Bernard Tobin is there to get all the details. "This is a ground-up development, purely focused on the North American farmer," says Andrew Sunderman, AGCO tactical marketing manager for high horsepower tractors. The series features five... Read More

CLAAS has announced the full commercial launch of the AXION 900-800 series at Farm Progress Show at Decatur, Illinois. RealAgriculture's Bernard Tobin had a chance to catch up with Drew Fletcher, product manager with CLAAS of America, to talk about the 200 to 440 horsepower tractors' release into American and Canadian markets. Fletcher says the... Read More

When it comes to accessible data around forages, there isn't much out there. That's according to Grant Lastiwka with Alberta Agriculture and Forestry who spoke at AgSmart this year at Olds, Alberta. The forage extension specialist dubbed his talk to producers, "pasture and hayland Viagra" and his aim was to get producers excited about the... Read More

Costco Canada is asking producers for more, high-quality Canadian beef. Chris Tindall, AGMM fresh meats for Costco, presented to attendees of the Canadian Beef Industry Conference in Calgary last week, discussing how industry can build alliances with producers, the needs of the beef industry, and the desire to grow availability of AAA and Prime beef.... Read More

Canada Beef has launched an export market development (EMD) program aimed to stimulate market development activities and grow market segments in an effort to increase Canadian beef in the export market place, says president Michael Young. "It's a new program that our committee just approved three weeks ago now, and what it does is it... Read More

Chances are you've never decanted window cleaner and blue raspberry gatorade side-by-side, but if you did, you'd likely be shocked at the similarity. In fact, many chemicals bear striking resemblances to palatable substances, particularly to a child's eye. And that was one of the messages brought to Saskatchewan by the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association (CASA)... Read More