Greg Reinhardt’s Precision Farming column returns this issue for another season with information from the Olds College Precision Farming Project. Reinhardt explains how data gathered from new technology like combine yield monitors can be interpreted to improve farm management.
Look for his column on page 65.
Log splitter
Bachtold Bros. has introduced a vertical log splitter.
The TRV-26 allows people to roll logs up to 26 inches (66 centimetres) in diameter into splitting position without lifting the wood off the ground.
More powerful shearing action, coupled with the rectangular tube design of the splitter’s main beam, offers greater strength and longer-lasting durability than units with the traditional I-beam design.The unit is rated at 16 tonnes of force and is available with a standard Briggs and Stratton five horsepower engine for optional 5.5-h.p. overhead valve Honda engine.
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For more information write Bachtold Bros. At 509 W. First St., Box 485, Gibson City, Illinois, U.S.A. 60936-0485 or visit the website at www.bachtoldbros.com.
Skid loader
Mustang Manufacturing, a division of Gehl Co., has introduced the model 2042 skid steer loader.
The unit has a more powerful 43 horsepower engine allowing a 1,350-pound SAE operating capacity.
The axle torque has been increased to 44,900 foot pounds.
It has a bow tie chain design to reduce drivetrain stress and increase chain life.
For more information contact Mustang Manufacturing at Box 547, Owatonna, Minnesota, U.S.A., 55060-0547, phone 507-451-7112 or visit the website at www.mustangmfg.com.
Mustang Manufacturing’s skid steer loader has a more powerful engine.
Cattle software
SoftPro Business solutions has introduced two software programs for cattle producers.
GrazePro helps producers with decisions about rotational grazing and eases the tedium of record keeping and planning.
GrazePro was created so ranchers can evaluate such things as whether it pays to fertilize.
“If you want a simplified way of making a grazing plan and a simplified way of recording what you have done, GrazePro will do it,” states a company news release.
ProCow is a cow-calf herd management program. It can handle multiple herds and track pedigree and progeny.
It helps manage and analyze reproduction records and creates breeding, calving, vaccinating, or weaning records. It generates production reports by cows, calves or bulls, as well as action and summary reports.
The software indexes cows and calves and allows producers to enter photos, body condition, cow defects and bull fertility
For more information phone SoftPro at 800-706-2332 or visit its website at www.softpro.ab.ca.
Herbicide line
Dow AgroSciences has introduced a line of glyphosate herbicides.
Monsanto has licensed Dow AgroSciences to produce the herbicide. Vantage will compete with Roundup Original and Vantage Plus will go up against Roundup Transorb.
For more information contact a Dow AgroSciences dealer.
Correction
A New Products listing in the Oct. 21 issue for CEI Land Rollers from Creative Enterprises Inc. contained the wrong telephone number.
The rollers are designed for soil preparation for pulse crops and grass land.
The correct phone number is 888-458-5765.
