Same Low-Cost Technology Offered 25 Years Later (More Like 70 Years Later)

About this episode

The episode discusses the emergence of low-cost tractors by Ursa Ag, reminiscent of older agricultural technology.

A half-dozen years before I concentrated my ag journalism career on no-till, I edited Massey-Ferguson’s 6-times-a-year Farm Profit magazine that circulated to 400,000 U.S. growers. This memory came up with the recent news that a western Canadia startup company (Ursa Ag) is building tractors with very little technology — selling them for half the price of today’s more advanced tractors.

Topics covered

• agriculture
• no-till farming
• technology
• tractors
• cost reduction

Keywords

• no-till
• agriculture
• tractors
• Massey-Ferguson
• Ursa Ag
• technology
• cost-effective

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Massey-Ferguson, Ursa Ag

Places: Canada

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