Larger farms mean bigger bin yards with more activity as trucks come and go. It also means the yard may have drivers unfamiliar with your facility, your procedures and your people. All that potentially sets the stage for accidents. The driver can see for certain where all the stationary objects are, but people move. Sometimes […] Read more
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Go ahead, auger in anger, it won’t break
It seems new fence lines always find a way to run across the toughest, hardest, most highly compacted rocky soil in sight. The perfect conditions to break your auger drive. When running a new fence line, the last thing you want to hear is the clank of your auger drive busting and locking up. Glenn […] Read more
New air carts about to hit marketplace
The air cart market for the 2021 model year already has a few notable updates, including Bourgault’s 8000 and 9000 series air seeder lines expected to be revealed in June. “We’re replacing our existing lines of air seeders. We’re doing a wholesale change of our current 6000 and 7000 series with the 8000 and 9000 […] Read more
Steel blades rejuvenate pastures chemical-free
Some cattle producers treat grazing land like just so much dirt, assuming nature looks after management. The pasture responds accordingly. “People take grazing land and hay land for granted. They’re scared to put money into it. It’s usually a hot topic when cattlemen get together,” said RanchWorx agronomist David Benjamin. “Rotational grazing and mob grazing […] Read more
Farm Progress Show postponed
Canada’s Farm Progress Show has been postponed due to COVID-19. This was to be a year of change for the show, held by Regina Exhibition Association Ltd., as it intended to move to a Tuesday-to-Thursday schedule. It was scheduled for June 16 to 18. The show advisory board and exhibition association decided to postpone but […] Read more
Total boom section cleanout in five minutes
A new spray boom recirculation valve promises to reduce sprayer clean-out time to five minutes from one hour, and eliminate dumping rinsate and active product on the ground. The Sectional Recirculation Valve was developed by the Drift Reduction Technology (DRT) Corp. in Wisconsin. The company focuses exclusively on improving the safety and accuracy of applying […] Read more
Army tandem drive goes farming
Farmers with exceptionally heavy loads on their off-road/on-road trucks might consider Link’s new 85K Air Link Tandem Drive Chassis Suspension, which the company claims is North America’s highest-capacity air-spring suspension system. The 85K was first developed for the U.S. military and was released to the commercial and agricultural sectors at CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2020 in Las Vegas […] Read more
Don’t stop, keep baling – a new way to round
Round bales offer a lot of functionality to the farm, especially if poly wrapping is part of the plan for forages. But not having to stop and drop a bale would make round baling more efficient. Kubota is offering its new European Kverneland continuous round baler, the world’s first fixed-chamber continuous baling platform, in Canada […] Read more
Getting the exact rate of liquid fertilizer
ExactRate is John Deere’s new factory-installed liquid fertilizer application system for farmers who want to apply liquid fertilizer during planting and who want precise nutrient placement from their planters. This factory-installed option monitors and controls the application of liquid fertilizer during planting, said Deere’s Brady Alley. He explained that the system shuts off flow in […] Read more
Steel meets soil, once again, but different
New generation plows are available for our changing chemical-free world as some farms return to metal weed control
As some farms gradually migrate away from chemical control of plant disease, weeds and insects, farmers have little choice but to revert to some level of cultivation. Steel meets soil, again. There’s an emerging demand for innovative new generation technology to deal with this challenge. In response, Lemken has introduced their new line of Juwel […] Read more
