PAMI's combine calibration machine displayed at Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute in Humboldt at their 50th anniversary open house July 2025.

Ag equipment researcher prepares for the future

The Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute eyes the digital era as it celebrates 50 years of tech research and testing

The evolution of the Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute will see it looking into automation, controls and digitization, and also the best ways that this technology can be implemented in machinery.

Marcel Kringe of Bushel Plus speaks to farmers at Ag in Motion in July. The company emphasizes sharing knowledge with farmers to help reduce their combine losses to a goal of less than one bushel per acre. | Michael Robin photo

Tools make sure those yields end up in the bin

It’s payday on the Prairies and combines are going full tilt to collect on a season’s investment in time and inputs. Marcel Kringe says it’s a shame that too much of that crop blows out the end of combines, which reduces income and adds input costs next year to control volunteers. In a previous life, […] Read more

Projects at the Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute have included sprayer aerodynamics.  |  File photo

PAMI receives five-year gov’t funding increase

Recent research at the institute involves combine auto-adjustment in canola and how to limit air seeder damage in peas

Glacier FarmMedia – The Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute will have $5 million in public money added to its budget for the next five years. Funds were announced May 14 from the federal government and province of Saskatchewan and are provided under the $3.5-billion Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership agreement. “The Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute has a […] Read more


A large propane tank sits on the edge of a field.

How to best gas up the grain dryers

The Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute began began dryer research four decades ago, publishing its first report in 1985 and establishing it as the dryer authority. PAMI engineer Lorne Greiger offers his insights on fuels and dryer types. Greiger said he thinks portability is the main advantage of propane. As new farming areas open and are […] Read more