Reading Time: 4 minutes The Prince family runs a large-scale family farm in southwestern Manitoba, where for years they have wished for a single, effective piece of seeding equipment that they could use for all of their crops. Now, they’ve turned that dream into a market-ready implement and a fledgling equipment brand. Their on-farm creation, the PPS planter, can […] Read more
Right from the farm
Farmer-owned Capricorn Bay bridges the planter-drill divide
Hanson Acres: The family takes a look around
With the crop ready to come off, it’s time to make the kinds of decisions only farmers have to make
Reading Time: 4 minutes On his first day swathing canola, Jeff was surprised when he checked the time on his phone and realized he’d accidentally finished his lunch before 10:30 a.m. “Have to adjust to the harvest schedule,” he thought. With his lunch finished, the GPS finally auto-steering correctly, and the crop feeding through the swather — as Jeff’s […] Read more
John Deere looks to 2018
New combines figure big in the green brand’s plan to get you buying
Reading Time: 3 minutes Stretched out across the large grassy lawn in early June in front of John Deere’s Harvester Works in Moline, Illinois, was a broad assortment of equipment, with marketing staff showing off to the farm media from Canada and the U.S. what Deere would be adding to its product line for 2018. Several of the machines […] Read more
Hanson Acres: The Hansons celebrate… and the neighbours join in too
Sometimes a secret is just too good to keep
Reading Time: 4 minutes After an afternoon of lawn darts, frisbee, lounging in lawn chairs and drinking cold drinks, 31 members of the Hanson family and another 42 assorted friends and neighbours were sitting around borrowed tables on the Hansons’ lawn, digging into their buffet dinner of steak, baked potatoes, homemade buns, 11 different salads and hot dogs for […] Read more
A new machinery brand for Canada
Australian manufacturer K-Line makes a big jump into the North American market
Reading Time: 3 minutes If you were a farm equipment manufacturer in a country that is its own continent, where would you look to make your first expansion into the international market? For the Australian company K-Line, the choice was easy. Head to North America. “It’s really one of the best moves we’ve made, as far as our company […] Read more
Hanson Acres: Counting the days to get into the field
On the farm, it isn’t so much when spring first comes, as when it stops going away
Reading Time: 4 minutes When Jeff realized the tractor was slipping, the drill was already stuck, deep, and his first impulse was to curse. Loudly and profanely. His second impulse was to wonder if there was any way he could possibly keep his family from finding out. “You can’t take the drill out tomorrow,” Jeff’s father Dale had said […] Read more
New from John Deere
The green brand offers a glimpse of what’s to come in 2017
Reading Time: 3 minutes Next month, John Deere will host a formal event to pull the wraps off several new additions to its equipment line. What will be under the covers? In February, at the National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville, Kentucky, the brand teased showgoers by unveiling a couple of new products that are bound to be included […] Read more
Ag-market sees new interest in dry-product spreaders
New machines designed to broadcast dry fertilizer are hitting dealerships for the 2017 season
Reading Time: 5 minutes For years, one-pass seeding systems that incorporate fertilizer application with the seeding pass had producers turning their backs on dry spreader systems. Many older designs of spinner spreaders lacked the precision that producers could now get from direct-seeding systems. But the logistical demands of getting everything done in one seeding pass have a few growers […] Read more
Hanson Acres: All dressed up, and someplace to go
The first fine day of a Canadian spring can only mean one thing
Reading Time: 5 minutes Donna was sorry to hear about her aunt Evelyn’s death. “Even when she had to live in that nursing home, Aunt Evelyn always had something good to say,” Donna said to her mother over the phone. “She had a lot of lemons to make lemonade with,” Donna’s mother said. “But remember, she was 93. We […] Read more
Rocky Mountain looks for more
As Canada’s largest ag dealership chain turns 10, Country Guide sits down with its senior executives to look at how it got here, and where it’s going
Reading Time: 6 minutes Suspicion. Unease. Uncertainty. They were all sweeping across the West a decade ago when farmers began seeing their local Case IH and New Holland dealerships get gobbled up by a new and unfamiliar company. Then they started hearing the name — Rocky Mountain Equipment — but that didn’t help. Except as the outsiders buying their […] Read more
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