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Versatile high-horsepower tractors (HHTs) designed around customer input

In 2004 Versatile jumped out in front in the horsepower race with its 535 tractor, flagship model in the company’s HHT (high-horsepower tractor) line introduced with the smaller 485 and 435 too. The model numbers also represent respective horsepower ratings. It took awhile for other manufacturers to catch up with the kind of power the
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Value, durability and fuel economy inspire brand loyalty

Farmers all have their own reasons for choosing a particular tractor brand. For David Tschetter of Sandy Lane Colony near Grande Prairie, Alberta, fuel efficiency topped the priority list. And that, he says, was why he opted for a Versatile. “I’d started to monitor fuel consumption,” he says. Before switching to Versatile, David wasn’t happy
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Versatile’s 4WD line

With all Versatile tractors adopting new family styling, the 4WD series now sports a look matching that of their big brothers in the high-horsepower tractor (HHT) line. Along with their new look the four models in this group offer 305, 340, 375 and 400 horsepower, plus the advantages of new and improved design. Underneath that
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The life of a logo

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Versatile’s history as a brand dates back to the mid-1940s in a Toronto backyard. That’s where Peter Pakosh in 1945 developed a new type of grain auger, as described in Versatile Tractors: A Farm Boy’s Dream, a 2003 coffee table book by Pakosh’s grandson Jarrod. The elder Pakosh’s company expanded into field sprayers and harrow
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Machinery makers find shelter in global storm

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In a world where heavy equipment sales are stalling due to the housing slump and credit crisis, the farm market is a rarity: a place where demand is still outstripping supply and many customers are still paying with cash. The question is: How long can the agricultural market shelter the equipment companies from the financial
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Farming in years past

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Harvest time on the farm was always an exciting time when I was a boy because it meant new jobs to learn, the opportunity to work with neighbours, hearty meals – some delivered right to the field, and a sense of well-being as the season’s grain was stored safely away. The task that ushered in

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