Machinery

Reading Time: < 1 minute Canadian hopper-bottom bin maker Meridian Manufacturing Group plans to expand its product offering in 2012 to include aeration systems. Meridian’s AirMax system, announced Wednesday at the Western Canada Farm Progress Show in Regina, is billed as a “flexible” system designed for retrofit installation in farmers’ existing hopper bins. The system will be available to farmers […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute Canadian steel grain bin maker Westeel has tapped a Swedish manufacturer to build Westeel-branded conveyor and elevator grain handling systems. Westeel on Monday announced it has contracted with Skandia Elevator, based at Arentorp, Sweden, about 100 km northeast of Goteborg, to manufacture conveyors and elevators for sale in Canada under the Westeel name. Skandia’s systems […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes EDITOR’S NOTE: This contest is now closed. Many thanks for your entries. Winners have been or soon will be contacted by email — and tickets have been put in the mail, or will be very shortly. If you’ve not got your tickets yet for the Western Canada Farm Progress Show, they may be just a […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute Ways in which Prairie farmers can get the most out of their combines and air drills this year are the topics of two new videos at Grainews.ca. In the short EQuipTV videos posted Wednesday, Grainews machinery editor Scott Garvey takes you to a Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute (PAMI) combine clinic at Brandon, Man. and a Seed […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute A chain of four John Deere equipment dealerships in Quebec’s Monteregie has expanded eastward in a merger with another Deere dealer in the Estrie. Les Equipements Lague, which deals in Deere’s ag, commercial, lawn, garden, turf and golf equipment and Gator utility vehicles at St-Hyacinthe, Pike River, Ange-Gardien and Varennes, on Thursday announced it will […] Read more