Scott Garvey
Senior Editor at Farmtario
Senior editor for machinery and equipment at Glacier FarmMedia, including Grainews. Tweets are my own.
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1 week ago |
grainews.ca | Scott Garvey
Jost’s Quicke brand has announced the introduction of new front-end loader grab attachments for round bales, the Unigrip L+ and XL+. The Unigrip’s compression grab design makes it suitable for picking up wrapped silage bales without puncturing the plastic wrap. Because of their adjustable backstops, the Unigrip attachments can lift and secure two bales stacked on top of each other at the same time.
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grainews.ca | Scott Garvey
In a move that has sparked a lot of online chatter from diehard, old-school truck enthusiasts, Kenworth announced March 19 it will end production of its narrow (1.9-metre) cab Class 8 trucks, which includes the company’s iconic W900. The W900 holds the record for the longest heavy truck model to remain in continuous production. It entered service in 1963 and has continued with the same basic body style until today, although there have been a couple of minor variations.
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grainews.ca | Scott Garvey
John Deere used the Commodity Classic farm show last month in Denver as the venue to pull the wraps off a number of upgrades to its combine and sprayer lineups. “For 2026 we’re advancing our automation features on our combines,” says Bergen Nelson, go-to-market manager for harvesting equipment at John Deere.
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grainews.ca | Scott Garvey
Agco used the National Farm Machinery Show at Louisville, Kentucky and World Ag Expo at Tulare, California to introduce its innovative SB.1436DB small square baler under the Hesston by Massey Ferguson brand, in a concurrent debut at both shows. The SB.1436DB builds two 14- by 18-inch small square bales at the same time to maximize field productivity. Bale length can be adjusted from 24 to 52 inches.
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2 weeks ago |
grainews.ca | Scott Garvey
In February, Salford claimed one of the industry’s coveted AE50 awards from the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers for its Precision Row Crop Cultivator models. The row-crop tillage models offer 12-, 16- and 24-row variants, which incorporate several new features that impressed the AE50 judges. “The row crop cultivator is a little unique in the industry for a few reasons … one being its high productivity compared to other competitors.
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