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Among a host of tasks, the new Massey Ferguson® 4700 Series is designed for heavier and larger implements, draft work and demanding applications. Yet, even with all that beef, these tractors are still amazingly fuel-efficient. That’s in large part due...
The last two winters on Prince Edward Island have been epic. Just ask Jamie Fox, who not only lives on PEI, but owns a truck stop that—no matter the depth of the snow—he keeps open 24/7. How does he do...
Kristin Pyle says her dad tells a story about a cross-country drive from Boston to San Francisco “sometime in the 70s,” when he fell in love with Iowa. “He was driving, and all of a sudden everything was green and...
Stretching from South Dakota down to Texas, the Ogallala Aquifer has helped turn the land it irrigates into some of the world’s most agriculturally productive. Yet many farmers, researchers and others are concerned about recent signs that the aquifer is...
“The ground was so steep you couldn’t stand up on it,” says Thornton Tweedy about some of the railroad and power line right-of-ways he formerly cut and helped maintain. “You had to be careful, or you could roll a tractor,...
On the southwest shore of Florida’s giant Lake Okeechobee, U.S. Sugar grows cane on as much as 200,000 acres in a given year. Based in Clewiston, the company processes every bit of its harvest into granulated sugar, molasses and liquid...
A pasture sits empty, virtually devoid of anything living, unless you count the grasses, which went dormant months ago as winter set in. While it’s minus 16 Celsius—a relatively balmy winter temperature for Northern Alberta—the wind is howling at about...
The last three combines that Erle Brewer has owned have all been traded back to Shoal Lake Farm Equipment shortly after the warranty expired … which means Brewer hasn’t had to worry much about repairs. However, that doesn’t mean the...
How about a little good news for the holidays? “Farms give us food, fiber and fuel, all essentials of life. But now we are also asking for them to give us the secret of why living on a farm makes...
