ST. BRIEUX, Sask. – Bourgault Industries plans to go big next year. Of the three new product carts that will go on the market in 2008, the biggest is the recently unveiled 6700ST, a four-compartment, three-hopper, 700 bushel behemoth. “Looking at our sales for air seeder products, we found we were still not meeting the […] Read more
Production
High capacity cart keeps seed flowing
Partner up for on-farm research advice
NISKU, Alta. – The most important step when planning on-farm plots and research is to partner up, says William Punko. Speaking at the Alberta Reduced Tillage Linkages Direct Seeding Advantage Conference in Nisku, Punko provided personal perspectives based on research plots he has been involved with over the years. Punko, who farms near Westlock, Alta., […] Read more
Own the wind … it’s free
FARGO, N.D. – A new company in Fargo, North Dakota, has set out to debunk the belief that wind-generated electricity is affordable only for giant utility companies or wealthy tree-hugging professors and doctors. At this year’s Big Iron show in Fargo, Bill Schwankl of Alternative Energy Services had a new Ventura 10 kilowatt wind turbine […] Read more
Wind can generate power, farm revenue
FARGO, N.D. – While we think of the wind as free, when it is blowing across your fields it may have monetary value, either to you or to someone else who wants to harvest it and sell the power. “If someone approaches you to buy the wind rights on your farm, consider it carefully because […] Read more
Wind worked well as farm power source
FARGO, N.D. – Vernon Johnson has an all-electric farm. He heats his house and shop with electricity. Heat for his grain dryer comes from electricity. And, in the dead of winter, his utility bill has been $150 a month. “We have electric cables in all the floors. They’re heating elements, like in a toaster. We’re […] Read more
Manage carbon for higher crop yields
NISKU, Alta. – Ask most farmers which essential nutrient their crop uses the most and you’ll probably hear nitrogen. But zero till researcher Dwayne Beck said they’d be wrong. “The nutrient taken up in the largest quantity by plants is carbon. We’ve never thought ‘what can I do to encourage more carbon in my field,’ […] Read more
New Products
Baler makes denser bales New Holland recently introduced the BR7070 CropCutter model, capable of producing four by six foot roto-cut round bales for dry hay, silage or straw for bedding. The rotary cutting system, equipped with up to 15 knives, cuts crop as it is fed into the baler. The BR7070 can cut hay as […] Read more
Rippled coulters find new use in field
WINKLER, Man. – If you ask Karl Walkof how long he’s been doing vertical tillage on his Winkler, Man., farm, he’d tell you that he hadn’t even heard of the term until he read a story in The Western Producer last winter. That story covered the Ontario-built Salford vertical tillage machine. Right away, he knew […] Read more
Skid steer loader takes on scraper
FARGO, North Dakota – Farmers can now use their skid steer or track loaders to do levelling and drainage work typically associated with big 20-yard commercial scrapers, only not as much of it. The Ashland Ground Hog 2500 is a miniature 2.5 cubic yard scraper that mounts to the front of a skid steer or […] Read more
Sensor gives farmers seeding info
REGINA – A new packing force sensor for the Seedmaster air drill was recently introduced at the Master Seeder conference in Regina. “This is partially out of laziness,” said Norbert Beaujot, who operates a 1,400 acre farm near Langbank, Sask., and is also president of Straw Track Manufacturing. “I want to know what the drill […] Read more
