Short-line header manufacturers are facing restricted ability to connect the electronics on their products to the digital systems on some major brand combines and swathers.  |  Scott Garvey photo

Short-line manufacturers face obstacles

Copyright laws and digital lockouts prevent implement manufactures from connecting to the electronics of OEM systems

Not that many years ago, getting an implement or attachment to work with a tractor or other major brand machine usually just meant putting compatible ends on hydraulic hoses. However, as technology has advanced, access to and interoperability with the machine’s digital system has become the key consideration — and now stumbling block in some […] Read more

A new combine header is on display at a farm show in Regina recently.

Float like a butterfly cut like a Honey Bee

Company updates its flex header so that it’s better equipped when it comes time to harvest bushy crops

Honey Bee Manufacturing’s Air Flex lineup uses gauge wheels on each side of the feeder house that hold most of the header’s weight in flex mode, and all of its weight in rigid mode.