Many industry sectors are having trouble finding skilled workers in today’s labour market. Prairie agricultural equipment manufacturers, which are often located in smaller communities, are feeling that pinch as severely as anyone. Related story: Industry sells workers on ag jobs The Agricultural Manufacturers of Canada (AMC), an association representing that industry, has been working on […] Read more
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“Careers in Ag Mobile Skills Lab” to promote industry jobs
Saskatchewan equipment manufacturers receive government funding aimed at finding more workers
Mid-sized rock picker simple but tough
LANGHAM, Sask. — Rocks don’t change. Farmers have been picking and dumping them ever since the fields were broken. But farms have changed. Farmers have changed. Farm machinery has changed. That means rock-pickers have had to change. “It’s going to pick more rocks with less dump time,” said Derek Molnar of Degelman, the rock-picking giant, […] Read more
VIDEO: Prairie wheat history comes to life in crop plots
Agriculture Canada grows a living museum that highlights the history of wheat development in Western Canada
LANGHAM, Sask. — Newspapers are chronicles of the history they cover in real time. If one goes far back into The Western Producer’s archives, they will find frequent references to famous names like Red Fife, Marquis and Thatcher, which were the dominant wheat varieties of their times. Those names are seldom heard nowadays, but Agriculture […] Read more
Versatile partners with autonomy developer
At the recent Ag in Motion farm show, Versatile revealed it is developing production-ready, fully autonomous machines, just like the big four brands of agricultural equipment manufacturers. Versatile announced a partnership with Saskatchewan technology startup Mojow Autonomous Solutions to put a full autonomy option into its four-wheel drive tractors. “They’ve been working with us for […] Read more
Airbar keeps stray crop in the hopper
Air-assisted harvesting system is designed to deliver more bushels for a quick return on producers’ investment
A hollow metal tube with regularly spaced long, curved metal tines hangs over the combine header like a weird hybrid of a hay rake and harvester. Tubes lead behind the header to a powerful blower assembly, hinting at what the S3 AWS Airbar FDX rig is all about: using air to shepherd crop into the […] Read more
Case IH windrowers get draper head option
Small grains header designed to be compatible with WD5 Series is expected to be attractive pairing for prairie growers
In mid-July, Case IH announced HoneyBee WSC draper headers will be compatible with the brand’s recently redesigned WD5 line of windrowers. The company announced that pairing at the Ag in Motion farm show near Langham, Sask. Choosing to announce that collaboration at a western Canadian farm show made sense because HoneyBee products are manufactured in […] Read more
The dogs of AIM
If you like dogs, and dogs at farm shows, I hope you like these photos I shot at Ag in Motion last week. Rylin Verbeek and his mom, Tessa, from Sturgeon City, Alberta, helping their pup handle all the excitement of the cattle handling section of Ag in Motion. Lily Adamson of Makwa, Saskatchewan looks […] Read more
World may be facing wheat shortage this year
Wheat is finally becoming a “sexy” crop after years of being the ugly duckling, says an analyst. Stephen Nicholson, global grains and oilseeds strategist for Rabobank, said a series of supply side threats is making things exciting. Canada’s crops are withering in the fields. MarketsFarm is forecasting 30.4 million tonnes of all wheat production, well […] Read more
AIM: Combine settings app makes the world your neighbour
Trevor Scherman and partner Megan Madden are making it easy for farmers to connect during harvest time to get the best settings for their combines. Scherman, who co-founded the ScherGrain Solutions System with his father, says he used the same philosophy in his latest behind that was behind using a drop pan to measure how […] Read more
VIDEO: AIM: Small iron revolution brings bikes to farms
LANGHAM, Sask. — There’s a “small iron revolution” happening on farms across Canada. Even though most farmers and people in agriculture probably see “fat bikes” and “e-bikes” as urban phenomena, these new versions of bicycles are leaping into the farmyards and farm fields in hundreds of places. “I have some farm friends who have e-bikes […] Read more
