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Variable-rate planting catches on as growers strive to make every seed count with their costly top-flight genetics
Reading Time: 3 minutes Precision agriculture may have got off to a patchy start in Eastern Canada, but one use that is generating a lot of excitement right now is variable-rate seeding. Indeed, the technology to have row units turn on and off automatically seems to have come at exactly the right time, Higher-priced corn seed may be worth […] Read moreSo you think you know what “precision” farming means? You’re probably selling the technology short. Equipment makers around the world are set to launch tools that will let farmers do things we have never, ever been able to do before
Reading Time: 5 minutes A mere decade ago, to be on the cutting edge of precision farming meant using a GPS receiver equipped with a light bar guidance system to help you steer a straight line. That receiver relied on the standard WAAS signal with its one-metre accuracy, a technological breakthrough. Today, that equipment no longer fits into anyone’s […] Read moreWhen you’ve got equipment to move, follow these rules to sell it fast and generate the best net outcome for you and your farm
Reading Time: 4 minutes We all love that new-cab smell. As great as it feels to take a new farm machine home, however, one thing is inevitable. Some day you’ll have to figure out how to get rid of it. That raises the question, how and when should you sell equipment after you retire or cease farming operations? It […] Read more
