Prototype wows at farm shows | Side chute system allows for easy auger unloading
REGINA — There aren’t too many commodity trailers that could be described as sexy or sleek, but Brandon’s Cancade has delivered something that could be described that way. They put their latest trailer on a diet, too. Darren Blazeiko of Cancade said the company wanted a flexible design that could carry more product while also […] Read moreVideo
VIDEO: Matius Ruffo talks agronomy
The Mosaic Company’s worldwide agronomy manager, Matius Ruffo, was a featured presenter at InfoAg, one of North America’s premier precision agriculture conferences. WP managing editor Michael Raine caught up with Ruffo during the July 16 – 18, 2013 conference in Springfield, Illinois, and talked to him about precision ag and other key agronomy topics.
Video: Weather station coming to RM near you
WeatherFarm expands | Producers can log on to website for local weather, wind speed and direction, humidity
WeatherFarm, the densest weather monitoring network on the Prairies with more than 850 stations, continues to expand. Spencer Smit, the company’s western network representative, said he has just completed two new installs. The stations were placed in rural municipalities that belong to the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan, which is running a program that provides […] Read more
Video: Vertical tillage machine enters heavy clay zone
Strength behind Twister | Operators in heavy clay areas can adjust the normal zero disc angle up to nine degrees
Farmers learned long ago that tillage equipment designed for light soil often ended up on the scrap metal pile after it hits heavy clay soil. Over the decades, that fact fostered a unique manufacturing niche running parallel to the mainstream that specialized in robust equipment for heavy clay soil. These designers focused on farmers in […] Read more
Video: Grain vacuum makes hauling a one man job
VRX GrainVac really sucks | Centrifugal suction fan has redesigned blades that reduce wear
Farmers hate feathering equipment when time is on the line. One of those nuisances is balancing the grain to air ratio using a vacuum system. “We used to put the nozzle into the pile of grain and carefully monitor the ratio of grain and air. You had to be so careful to make sure you […] Read more
Instant soil sample; just add water
Nitrogen tester | Portable machine saves time and money by providing information in the field
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Do you want in-season soil samples and want them right now? An Iowa couple did, and set out to build a system that would give them what they wanted. “We figured it was possible, but there wasn’t a way to do it. So we built one,” said Stacey Sash Schildroth. The Soilsens […] Read more
Carefully placed corn seed clocked at 15 km-h
Those nimble 10 m.p.h. European field implements are quite the opposite of most of North America’s large slow-moving machines, but they might have a fit on prairie farms. Surprisingly, that’s the opinion of Pat Beaujot of Seed Hawk, a leading Canadian manufacturer that builds 84 foot air drills and 800 bushel carts. Beaujot said he […] Read more
Bourgault displays new air seeder
Robert Fagnou, marketing specialist at Bourgault Industries, describes the L7800 Air Cart at Canada’s 2013 Farm Progress Show. Features of the cart include a 800 bushel capacity, s saddle tank that holds 40 bushels of product, a pallet storage platform, dual R-38 tires, a hydraulically controlled pad for the front jack, and a hydraulic drive […] Read more
VIDEO: High tunnel greenhouses affordable
Jazeem Wahab of Agriculture Canada in Saskatchewan says the lack of intensive, high value vegetable production on the Prairies isn’t due to large infrastructure or production startup costs, nor is it because the northern Prairies’ season is too short and cold. It likely has more to do with a lack of producers that have been […] Read more
VIDEO: Growing soybeans on the Canadian Prairies
Got beans? More than 150,000 acres of Saskatchewan farmland has soybeans growing for 2013. In Manitoba the crop is passing the one million acre mark. Attractive as a low input crop, despite its high seed price, soybeans offer fair margins with yields as low as 25 bushels per acre, provided the price of the commodity […] Read more
