Early estimates indicate more than $500 million in sales were brokered in the International Business Centre during last week’s Canada’s Farm Progress Show in Regina. Organizers didn’t yet have specifics, but survey results in the IBC showed the total had been reached by the end of the second day of the three-day event. “It just […] Read more
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Progress Show goers keen to get look at giant fertilizer cart
REGINA — What is likely the world’s largest liquid fertilizer cart attracted a lot of farmer interest at Canada’s Farm Progress Show in Regina last week. “I’ve checked around and there isn’t anything this big on a single frame,” said company owner Wade Mowat of CW Mowat Manufacturing. The FLC 9000 ST Super Series is […] Read more
Farm Progress Show may hold answers for Nigerian farmers
Agbor Ndoma says his visit to Canada’s Farm Progress Show last week in Regina was “mind-blowing.” The executive director of the Centre for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Lagos, Nigeria, is believed to be the first show attendee ever from the African country. He was impressed with the show itself and was hoping to purchase storage […] Read more
Canada’s Farm Progress Show 2015: Daily coverage
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Regina restricts equipment transport ahead of farm show
Equipment deliveries to a major farm show are being impractically restricted in the heart of farm country, say trucking companies. Over-dimensional truckloads of farm machinery destined for Canada’s Farm Progress Show in Regina were being grouped into four-truck convoys early and late in the day. Some trucking companies feel the new enforcement of existing city […] Read more
Regina restricts farm equipment transport ahead of Farm Progress Show
Equipment deliveries to a major farm show are being impractically restricted in the heart of farm country, say trucking companies. Over-dimensional truckloads of farm machinery destined for Canada’s Farm Progress Show on Regina’s exhibition grounds were being grouped into four-truck convoys early and late in the day. Some trucking companies feel the new enforcement of […] Read more
Unique seeder featured at farm show
60-foot unit | New drill model features central fill system with individual six product metering
REGINA — Clean Seed Agricultural Technologies hopes to recapture some of last year’s buzz around its smaller scale CX-6 seeder prototype. It has introduced a 60 foot unit with a central air feed from a high capacity product cart. Colin Rosengren, vice-president of agronomics, said this allows for individual points to shut off at each […] Read more
VIDEO: Farm Progress Show award winners
Winners of the Innovation Awards at Canada’s Farm Progress Show 2013 in Regina received recognition from the show and their fellow exhibitors. In some cases, such as the People’s Choice award, the show participants were first time attendees, with new products to the farm marketplace. Clean Seed of British Columbia attracted enough show visitor votes […] Read more
Program to help ag firms market abroad
Saskatchewan agriculture minister Lyle Stewart used the backdrop of Canada’s Farm Progress Show to announce a new $1 million international market development program. The program is designed to help businesses and organizations establish or expand their international market presence, host or attend more trade missions and expand market access for producers. Stewart said Saskatchewan is […] Read more
Versatile enters N.A. combine market
Tested in action | The RT490 has operated through four harvests overseas under the name Torum 760
REGINA — Versatile’s first combine, the RT490, might be new to Versatile, but it’s not completely new to the world of harvesting. The 490 horsepower, Class 8 machine has been used in Europe, Russia and the former Soviet republics as the Torum 760. With four years of production, parent company Rostselmash offers the combine in […] Read more
