Grainews to work with Profi

Grainews will be running some articles from the European farm equipment mag, Profi. European farmers use equipment differently, including tilling and planting in one pass with a seedbed prep tool at the front of the tractor and a drill at the rear. European farmers — some of them at least — also use the Unimog truck/tractor hybrid for various field applications. And European farm papers provide a different perspective on common machinery, such as combines.

To get you primed for Profi, I've included here a sample of one of their regular features. Farmers send in photos of farm machinery disasters, just like this one. Here is the cutline for the photo: "Mailed in from Austria, this Deutz-Fahr combine harvester was left at the top of a hill without its brakes properly applied. So, we all know what happened next. Off the Deutz trundled down the slope, narrowly missing a house along the way, until she finally came to rest in amongst the trees. Harvester extraction was not a quick job."

Of course this wasn't funny for the combine owner or operator, but it makes everyone else thankful it wasn't them. If you have the heart to send me your photos of equipment disasters, I'll put them on my blog or in the paper.