Bin maker Meridian to offer aeration systems

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

Westeel to add conveyor systems to product line

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


Lack of wheat drives up prices from ethanol plants

Reading Time: < 1 minute Prices for feed wheat in Western Canada having seen a significant jump throughout the first half of 2011, thanks in large part to strong demand from the ethanol sector. In the middle of November, Husky Energy’s plants at Minnedosa, Man. and Lloydminster, Sask. were paying producers $4.25 and $4.55 per bushel respectively for feed wheat […] Read more

FREE to good home: FARM PROGRESS tickets (June 08, 2011)

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


EQuipTV: Getting best results from combines, seeders

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

Video: A roundtable on stalled spring seeding

Reading Time: < 1 minute Lyndsey Smith, editor of Grainews, joins host Shaun Haney of RealAgriculture.com and editor Claire Cowan of Ontario Grain Farmer for a discussion on Canadian grain growers’ challenging spring so far, up to and including this week. In this interview, recorded Thursday, Lyndsey and Claire discuss the conditions keeping many farmers off the fields and potentially […] Read more


Monteregie Deere dealership chain expands east

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

Sask. again grandfathers farm license plates

Reading Time: 2 minutes Saskatchewan farmers who aren’t able to get enough acres seeded this spring to qualify for their “F” (farm) plates will get to keep their designation for another year. SGI, the province’s Crown auto insurer, had granted a farm plate eligibility exemption in 2010, set to expire next month, on June 1. “However, with farmers throughout […] Read more



Are you seeding yet? Let us know

Reading Time: 3 minutes Seeding still appears to be off to a flying stop in some cropland on the Prairies, while field reports in Eastern Canada suggest much better luck with planting. The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) on Monday (May 16) reported “favourable weather” last week had allowed a “dramatic” increase in seeding progress, especially in Alberta, western Saskatchewan […] Read more