A few weeks ago I was attending a farm show in Ontario. I know what you’re are thinking: ‘They farm differently than we do, so I am not sure what an event like that might offer for us back on the Prairies?’ You would be right. Here in Oxford County, farmland is close to $20,000 […] Read more
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Outdoor Farm Show demonstrations – Video
VIDEO: Disc gangs dominate cover crop tillage demo
WOODSTOCK, Ont. — Designs incorporating two gangs of offset discs followed by rolling harrows dominated the cover crop tillage demonstration at Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show earlier this month However, the demonstration featured a wide range of choice in terms of equipment weight, horsepower requirement, depth control, disc and bearing design and price. Ontario agronomist Pat […] Read more
VIDEO: Floating islands put nature to work
When engineer Erik Vandist floats an idea, it’s literal. The managing director of Vita Water Technologies is promoting the use of floating islands as a way to improve water quality in dugouts, ponds, storm water catchments and lagoons. The “island” uses a base made from recycled plastic to become a floating wetland, which uses plants […] Read more
Video: Biomass opens door for new machines
Choppers, grinders, mowers | Manufacturers introduce equipment to handle feedstock for use in ethanol plants, compost or livestock bedding
WOODSTOCK, Ont. — Farm equipment manufacturers have been beefing up their equipment to handle biomass. “This baler is well suited to the toughness of this material,” Glen Farris of Agco said while pointing to a Massey Ferguson 2270XD on display at Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show in Woodstock Sept. 10. The machine, built in Hesston, Kansas, […] Read moreVideo: Weighing cost of prevention against consequences
What’s in it for me? | Agronomist suggests emphasizing the economic benefits of weed management
WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s not easy to get people to do something that costs more and is more complicated. It likely explains why weed scientists and farm extension personnel are struggling to convince North American farmers to reduce their dependence on glyphosate and adopt more sophisticated weed control methods. How to accomplish that task was […] Read more
VIDEO: A century of farming and ranching being destroyed by flooding
For more than a century people have raised cattle around the shores of Lake Manitoba, carefully stewarding the fragile shoreline lands, the native pastures and the hay land that have provided a stable basis for a ranching community. But that life and economy, stable for more than a century, began to erode in 2006, local […] Read more
VIDEO: Big crop mystery lying beneath those grey skies
Grey, damp, dismal and frustrating: that’s how harvest has seemed for many farmers who have been almost ready to swath and combine – then hit by rain, drizzle, snow and other inclemencies. It’s frustrating to not be able to move when you want to, and distressing and infuriating to see good crops subjected to disease-inducing […] Read more
A superheroic way to raise money for worthwhile – and not – little projects
WARNING: THE ATTACHED VIDEO CONTAINS IMAGES OF MUSCLEBOUND MEN IN SKINTIGHT OUTFTS, BUXOM DAMSELS IN DISTRESS, NOBLE GIANT ABORIGINALS, FEARSOME MONSTERS – AND THEY’RE ALL CANADIAN Why is it that so much of humanity loves superheroes? Come on, admit it, you too have idolized one of those men or women in themed, outlandish outfits – generally […] Read more
Canadian superhero resurrected
Giant from Lake of the Woods | Forgotten Canadian superhero was the brainchild of Winnipeg artist
Only the elderly will be able to peer back through the mists of their own memories to the golden age of Canadian comics and newspaper illustrators to glimpse the image of Brok Windsor and the work of Jon Stables. And while a handful of avid vintage comic book and farm magazine collectors might have fragile […] Read more
