All in one pass 

By: By John Russnogle

Clyde Cook still remembers helping his dad farm with a team of horses as a young boy. Today, he harnesses more than 500 hp with a Case Quadtrac 535 pulling...

Next-Generation Engines 

By: By Jodie Wehrspann

Last March John Deere's non-road diesel engine group announced the technology it will use to reach the near-zero emission levels set by the EPA. Diesel...

Three Ways to Save Fuel 

We Want customers to know there is a lot they can do to offset a dip in fuel efficiency, and it starts now, with their current vehicles, says Steve Meinzen,...

FinOvation 2009 

By: By Karen McMahon, David Hest, Mark Moore

SmartStax Monsanto and Dow AgroSciences collaborated to produce a new eight-trait stack of genes in a hybrid that they expect to bring to the market in...

Versatile's back 

By: By Jodie Wehrspann

Good-bye Buhler. Goodbye Genesis. Good-bye blue-plated monogram. From now on the only brand name that will appear on the tractors made in Winnipeg, Manitoba,...

Tractor-sizing tool 

By: By Jodie Wehrspann

The Rule of bigger is better doesn't always fit when buying a farm tractor. With the high price of machinery and fuel, you should consider what size tractor...

Versatile in, Buhler out 

Buhler announced at a dealer event in early November that it is dropping the Buhler name on all its tractors and keeping the Versatile brand instead...

Proud History 

Have tractors improved? 

Have Tractors gotten more or less fuel efficient in the last 10 years? Canada's tractor test lab, The Prairie Ag Machinery Institute, averaged the ratings...

How to calculate your tractor's fuel efficiency 

Go to http://tractortestlab.unl.edu. Click on Test Reports. The Web site shows all makes and models tested at the lab since 1999. (Hard-copy reports for...