EQuipTV: Regular tweaks needed for best combine results

Reading Time: < 1 minute With harvest upon us, a video available at Grainews.ca takes a look at ways in which Prairie farmers can get the most out of their combines this summer and fall. In the short EQuipTV video posted in June, Grainews machinery editor Scott Garvey takes us to a Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute (PAMI) combine clinic at […] Read more

Pickup manufacturers show off their new wares

Reading Time: < 1 minute City folks like that new-car smell, but for farmers, it’s the aroma of a new pickup that has the most appeal, and some of our writers recently had the opportunity to sniff around some new offerings. Ford was somehow able to pry away Manitoba Co-operator editor Laura Rance from her 1995 Dodge Ram 2500 V-10 […] Read more


Olymel bacon plant funded for faster processing

Reading Time: < 1 minute Quebec meat packing giant Olymel has picked up a $2 million federal loan for three new bacon slicing and packing lines for its Aliments Prince food service operations. Aliments Prince, which makes precooked bacon products for the foodservice, retail, restaurant and fast food sectors at St-Hyacinthe, will be able to increase the speed on its […] Read more

EQuipTV: New Zealand seeding technology heads north

Reading Time: < 1 minute Growers in North Dakota were recently treated to a demonstration of New Zealand seed drill technology at work in Prairie growing conditions. Baker No-Tillage, the New Zealand manufacturer of the Cross Slot drill, has partnered with North American manufacturers to build units on this continent for farmers in the zero-till market. Grainews machinery editor Scott […] Read more



National cattle record-keeping system phase-in begins

Reading Time: 2 minutes The launch has begun for the Beef InfoXchange System (BIXS), a voluntary Canada-wide data recording system for cattle producers. The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA), which oversees BIXS, said Thursday in a release that a “limited number” of cow-calf producers are to receive invitations to register, log on and submit their individual animals’ data to the […] Read more


Nationwide biodiesel mandate to arrive Friday

Reading Time: 2 minutes Nationwide regulations requiring two per cent biofuel in Canada’s diesel and heating oil will take effect as planned on Canada Day. Environment Minister Peter Kent on Wednesday announced the amended Renewable Fuels Regulations, which were published for public comment in February, will come into force on their expected start date of July 1. An 18-month […] Read more

Floods add to Canadian Pacific’s weather woes

Reading Time: 2 minutes Canadian Pacific Railway has shut a key cross-border track for up to 10 days because of flooding in Saskatchewan and North Dakota, dashing its hopes of putting a recent deluge of bad weather behind it. The company said Thursday the rapidly rising Souris River forced the shutdown on Monday night of a line running between […] Read more


Que. cheesemaker to be fuelled by whey

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Quebec cheese producer has picked up a federal loan for equipment to use its own whey to help power and heat its manufacturing plant. Federal Transport Minister Denis Lebel on Tuesday announced $300,000 in “repayable funding” for Laiterie Charlevoix to become the first Quebec company to use such a system. The company, based at […] Read more

Buhler adds tillage to Farm King, Versatile lines

Reading Time: < 1 minute The owner of the Farm King and Versatile farm equipment brands has added tillage equipment to both product lines. Winnipeg’s Buhler Industries, which in February bought seeding equipment maker Ezee-On Manufacturing, said Wednesday it will produce its new tillage lines at the Ezee-On plant at Vegreville, Alta. A “complete range” of offset discs, tandem discs, […] Read more