A package from North Star Robotics enables farmers to more easily embrace autonomous operation of farm equipment
Spotting driverless-tractors working a Canadian field will be commonplace in the near future. Canadian growers are already retrofitting equipment with technology that enables machines to works autonomously, such as Brian Tischler’s Ag Open GPS and Matt Reimer’s tractor that pulls a grain cart up to his combine. These solutions require a fair amount of tech […] Read moreProduction
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Magnet solves old drop pan problem
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CanolaPALOOZA Saskatoon, 2017
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FMC gets large cereal and insect assets from DuPont
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Video highlights of Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show – 2018
Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show celebrated its 25th anniversary this summer and The Western Producer was there. Watch the following video for some of the highlights of our coverage: 00:50 – Jens Schmidt of Herbert Dammann talks about the Profi-Class sprayer. 03:40 – Bruce Burnett from MarketsFarm discusses grain markets in the Trump era. 08:10 – […] Read more
Soybean aphids disappear in Manitoba
Invasion of the lady beetles. It’s not the best title for a horror movie, but lady beetles did invade thousands of homes across Manitoba last fall. The infestation was annoying because Asian lady beetles, while nice to look at, do like to bite humans. The population of lady beetles, or ladybugs, exploded in Manitoba last […] Read more
Green guidance on off-color combines
Move your Greenstar to the red, yellow, blue, orange or purple implement of your liking
Tt’s not unusual to see a prairie farmyard with mainly green implements, and then combines in other colours contrasting with the other machines. The farmer with the mismatched combines is probably cursing because he can’t get his favourite combine GPS to communicate with his trusty Greenstar Starfire. That’s the situation in which Johannes Heupel was […] Read more
Magnet solves old drop pan problem
Move BushelPlus from one combine to another in a matter of seconds
BRANDON — Grain loss monitors don’t document how many bushels end up on the ground. Conventional drop pans are a nuisance and dangerous. The BushelPlus magnetic drop pan addresses those issues. If checking combine losses was convenient, farmers would do it. But it isn’t, so they don’t, according to Marcel Kringe of BushelPlus in Brandon. […] Read more
Seed Hawk gets new name
Seed Hawk Inc. is being rechristened Vaderstad Industries Inc., reflecting the fuller integration of the Seed Hawk brand within the Vaderstad Group. Seed Hawk and Vaderstad have been working together since 2006 and in 2013 the Swedish agricultural equipment manufacturer bought full ownership of Seed Hawk and invested in a major expansion of the plant […] Read more
CanolaPALOOZA Saskatoon, 2017
CanolaPALOOZA near Saskatoon brought together the canola scientific community and industry partners to showcase some of the latest research and technology in the field. Below are a few videos of some of the demonstrations at the event. Murray Hartman discusses new recommendations for canola density: Keith Downey reminisces on the origins of the canola industry: A […] Read more
VIDEO: Autonomous agriculture has been reimagined
Long cold winters, intense and short farming seasons, tight margins and shortage of labour have long been credited for Western Canada’s agricultural innovations. For the past three winters, one of the fathers of reduced tillage equipment has been taking in the sun in Mexico and considering the next step-change in agriculture autonomous work. […] Read more
Seed treaters showcased
Bayer hosted an event at the Case New Holland Training Centre that focused on seed treatment. During the Expo, four equipment manufactures displayed their seed treaters and in the following videos representatives from each company describes their products. Brian Ellis, Graham Seed Treating Systems Chris Larsen, Ag Growth International Jason MacNevin, Can-Seed Equipment […] Read more
FMC gets large cereal and insect assets from DuPont
FMC announced early Friday morning that it would be acquiring DuPont’s cereal herbicides business, as ordered by the European Commission to allow the merger of DuPont and Dow. While that deal will now not close until sometime in August, it helps pave the way for the big merger. FMC said it expects its deal with […] Read more
