Equipment Suppliers Feel Recession

After a buoyant 2008, farm equipment dealers are feeling the effects of the recession this year as farmers hold off purchases due to credit and market concerns, the Commons agriculture committee has been told. Strong commodity prices sparked a boom in equipment sales in 2008, John Schmeiser, vice-president of Canadian government affairs for the North

Versatile adds easy financing to its reputation for easy servicing

Saving time and resources is important to today’s food producers. And now, Versatile has added new programs that do both. Farming more acres than ever before, individual producers have to cover a lot of ground in a short time. Their success depends on speed, and time saved with easy, efficient servicing. This equals more hours


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

of efficient and durable design

Providing farmers with quality equipment based on simple design and innovative engineering has long been a tradition synonymous with the Versatile name. In fact, that is exactly how the company got its start. Peter Pakosh, one of the two founders, first used that principle to design a revolutionary new grain auger in the basement of


Genesis tractors reborn with new technology

The Versatile tractor family has two new faces: the 250 and 280. These rigid-frame, row-crop tractors are the result of an evolution that began with the former Genesis line. But they’ve come a long way from their Genesis forerunners. They’ve come so far, in fact, that the Genesis name has been dropped entirely. That seems

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