Gordie Devries loads canola seed after positioning the bag hauler next to the lift platform. | Leighton Schappert photo

Innovation takes load off your mind

Hydraulic elevator | E-Zee Loader does the heavy lifting
and can be custom designed for every cart on the market

BRANDON — Filling an air cart with bagged canola seed and inoculant makes for a gruelling day, especially if you start at 4 a.m. and run until 9 p.m. Carrying bags becomes a time factor and a danger on dew- and dust-greased stairs and ladders. It wears you out physically and mentally, and that’s when […] Read more

Animal welfare concerns have prompted some hog producers to move to open housing systems.  |  File photo

Open housing offers benefits over stall system

Hutterites find advantages | Manitoba colony says extra labour and equipment concerns proved to be unfounded

Open housing for pregnant sows works and costs about the same in money and labour as traditional stall barn systems, based on the experience of a Manitoba Hutterite colony. And most of the myths farmers have about “loose housing” for gestating sows don’t occur in reality. “We’ve never had any applications where you need more […] Read more