There was a glimmer of hope that in-person farm shows would begin again in early 2021; however, the National Farm Machinery Show (NFMS) has officially been postponed until February 16 to 19, 2022. The organizers says that although it had initially pushed the show into March, the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic has led show… Read More
Kentucky Venues is announcing the 56th annual National Farm Machinery Show (NFMS) and 53rd annual Championship Tractor Pull will be shifted from the usual dates in February, to March 31 to April 3, 2021. Held annually at the Kentucky Exposition Centre, NFMS is the largest indoor farm show in the U.S., featuring 1.2 million square… Read More
What started out as a local equipment show in Kentucky in 1966 has grown and evolved over 50 years to become the National Farm Machinery Show — the largest indoor show of its kind in the United States. Real Agriculture’s Shaun Haney is in Louisville, Kentucky, right now covering the massive event. He had a… Read More
Over 300,000 people descend on Louisville, Kentucky, in February each year to take in the biggest, newest, shiniest pieces of agriculture equipment on offer at the National Farm Machinery Show. See more: Check out all of our coverage from the National Farm Machinery Show here RealAgriculture’s field editor, Bernard Tobin, took in two days of… Read More
RealAgriculture.com attended the National Farm Machinery Show for the first time last week. We will definitely be attending again the future. We have a number of videos and interviews from the show in the coming weeks but until then here is all the photos that Shaun Haney took down in Louisville We think that you will… Read More
Farm machinery and practices have advanced at an amazing rate over the last one hundred years. Whether it was the move from steel wheels to rubber, the increase in implement width, or the advent of digital technology, farming has changed significantly since many of our families immigrated to Canada many years ago. Just how much… Read More
Case IH has launched the Farmall Utility A series with three new models: the 95A, 105A, and 115A tractors. Greg Lucey with Case IH was at the National Farm Machinery show to showcase the three brand-new models, which come in all configurations. This includes a 2wd, MFD, and a poultry tractor. “It’s going to fill… Read More
When Massey Ferguson rolled out its 8700S Series tractors in 2019, AGCO had hoped the 270 to 400 Hp tractors would find a fit across a range of farming operations. One year later, the tractors have proven a versatile and productive fit for everything from pulling planters and grain carts to powering manure applicators to… Read More
Many of Canada’s smaller farm equipment manufacturers are at risk of being left in the cold by the main U.S.-based manufacturers if the Canadian government doesn’t change its intellectual property rules, say representatives from a Saskatchewan-based company that builds attachments for harvesting equipment. Honey Bee Manufacturing’s general manager, Jamie Pegg, and Scott Smith, manager of… Read More
Looking for the latest information on a leaf disease invading your farm fields? Want to know how fungicides recommended for control or suppression stack up? Farmers and crop advisors will find all this and more when they visit cropprotectionnetwork.org, says University of Kentucky plant pathologist Carl Bradley. The Crop Protection Network (CPN) is a multi-state… Read More
As technology evolves, more and more of the players in the machinery business are coming up with ways to store and track the data we get from our implements. With so many different moving parts, it begs the question — is there a way we can store our data cross-platform? CLAAS’s recent launch of DataConnect… Read More
It’s a special show, recorded with Syngenta, at National Farm Machinery Show in Kentucky. Hear: Tyne Morgan, host of U.S. Farm Report, on grower sentiment in 2020, MFP 3.0, the U.S. election, and more; A product spotlight on Syngenta’s Miravis with Phil Craig and Matt Underwood; and A farmer panel with Jason Robinson, Greg Vermeerch,… Read More
It was a very frosty week in Saskatchewan, which felt just right at -50 degrees Celsius. Inside the walls of Prairieland Park at the Crop Production Show, farmers were in a relatively good mood despite roughly 10% of the 2019 crop still out in the fields. After three days at the show, I decided to… Read More
Kubota does not have a “one size fits all” approach to its customers or its markets. So says Martin Carrier, ag equipment product marketing director with Kubota Tractor. Carrier was at the National Farm Machinery Show at Louisville, Kentucky, to introduce the M7 Gen 2 line of tractors to customers in the United States. RealAgriculture’s… Read More
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