Reading Time: 4 minutes Alongside container farms in South Africa cultivating soldier flies for animal feed, solar-powered fish and crop dryers in Tanzania and machine-learning pest detectors in Kenya, Africans are coming up with innovative solutions to overcome the effects of climate change on food production.
Solar dry, soldier fly, AI: Africans fight hunger with innovation
CNH Industrial lowers profit forecast on slow demand for farming products
Reading Time: 2 minutes Farm and construction equipment maker CNH Industrial on Wednesday lowered its 2024 profit forecast for the second time, as slowing demand for its tractors and combines keeps hopes for a recovery in the second half of the year muted.
Summer Series: Old machines,new technology
[Change Management] Can retrofit kits mean it’s cheaper and smarter to say no to trading in?
Reading Time: 7 minutes One of my first jobs was working as a mechanic’s helper at a farm equipment dealership in the late 1970s. Among my duties was using an F-250 Ford pickup and gooseneck deck trailer to pick up and deliver equipment. I even recall delivering a combine on that unit. Granted, it was a smaller, older machine […] Read more
Schulte combo wind-rower and rock-picker sparks interest at AIM
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Schulte Spartan RWP-1935 Rock Windrower Picker bring in rocks from a width of 19.19 feet wide with its hydraulically-driven wind rower, which is then connected directly to the rock picker with a three and a half cubic yard bucket.
Fuel hedging platform wins AIM innovation award
Reading Time: < 1 minute Rack Petroleum Ltd.’s HedgeHog app allows users to confirm a guaranteed price for diesel for future delivery up to two years into the future.
Paraglider powers a new kind of sprayer
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Stratus AirSprayer is different than the quadcopters and fixed-wing UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) typically associated with ag drones. Essentially, it’s a powered paraglider — one that can carry heavier loads and stay aloft much longer than conventional drones.
Mobile skills lab launches at Ag in Motion
Reading Time: < 1 minute Agricultural Manufacturers of Canada has launched at mobile skills lab at Ag in Motion 2024.
Ag in Motion Innovation Awards handed out
Reading Time: 2 minutes The competition was made up of five categories, each including three contestants. Their innovations ranged from a giant manure bio-gas tank-trailer to a simple plastic calf castration card, from analytical management systems to hand-held leaf-scanning apps.
Leon Manufacturing for sale
Yorkton manufacturer's assets for sale as part of receivership process
Reading Time: < 1 minute The company, along with Ram Industries Inc., was placed in receivership June 11 after numerous financial difficulties were reported and the company missed payments to BMO. It owes BMO more than $16.6 million.
Cyber attack frustrates farm equipment dealers
Dealers forced to use manual processes after software provider hacked
Reading Time: 2 minutes CDK provides business management software to dealers of all makes of farm equipment, so major dealers of John Deere, CNH and are working without digital systems across the country. CDK is also the leading provider of management software to automobile dealers and thousands of those dealerships are offline.
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