What's new in high-horsepower tractors for 2025? Scott Garvey shares how each brand is focusing on this segment of tractors.
In 2023 after a short lull in the horsepower race we started to see engine ratings jump up again. Case...
What's new in high-horsepower tractors for 2024? Scott Garvey shares how each brand is focusing on this segment of tractors.
As 2023 ended, one trend has been evident in tractors: they’re getting bigger. For a while, it seemed, horsepower growth...
What's new in high-horsepower tractors for 2023?
RELATED: Check out the 2024 High-Horsepower Tractor Guide. With a dozen different brands now offering high-horsepower tractors to Canadian producers,...
Case IH’s AFS Connect line of high and very-high horsepower tractors bring improved levels of telematics capability and connectivity to the brand’s flagship Magnums and Steigers. Recently, the two-model Optum line of tractors joined the high-horsepower lineup and one of them tops the 300 horsepower mark.
In early 2020, Case IH introduced the updated AFS Connect Steiger tractor line, which followed on the introduction of the...
AGCO’s Challenger brand now offers two-track tractors from 380 to 673 horsepower in two different model lines, the MT 700, which tops out at 431, and MT 800. Together, they offer a total of seven different models across that horsepower range.
The number of tractor offerings in AGCO’s Challenger brand have been pared down over the past few years. It now...
The Germany-based Deutz-Fahr brand has one tractor model that tops 300 horsepower, the 9 Series TTV Agrotron 9340. A low-revving Deutz diesel engine and a ZF-built CVT transmission combine to deliver power to the wheels in this 60 km/h-capable tractor.
There are three 9 Series TTV Agrotron models in Deutz-Fahr’s lineup that get imported into Canada. The flagship model, the...
Claas’ Axion 900 Series tractor line was first introduced to Canada in 2019, which added to the two-model Xerion line of unique four-wheel drive tractors the brand had been offering. In 2022, the Axion 960TT Terra Trac half-track tractor joined the Canadian lineup.
In 2019 Claas announced the introduction of its MFWD Axion 900 Series tractor line to the North American market. The...
The Fendt line of tractors has grown over the past few years as it has added what were formerly Challenger brand models to its line. In 2022 the new AGCO CORE engine was introduced in a Fendt. It will eventually be capable of running on a variety of alternative fuels.
AGCO has now clearly established Fendt as its premium equipment line, and Fendt tractors incorporate the most sophisticated, high-end features...
John Deere’s new JDX14, 13.6-litre engine low lives under the hoods of the brand’s flagship 9 Series tractors. In the 8 Series tractors a new electric variable transmission is set to be introduced. And the 8R fully autonomous tractor will soon hit the market.
John Deere currently offers three tractor ranges with models rated above 300 engine horsepower, three in the 7 Series offering...
At JCB improved connectivity and control are what’s new for the brand’s unique line of high-speed Fastrac iCON ag tractors. The new technology won the brand a prestigious Tractor of the Year award in Europe in the “Sustainable” category this year.
In JCB’s unique line of high-speed ag tractors, the 8330, the brand’s largest model, offers 335 horsepower in a tractor...
