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Farmers Dennis Reimer (l) and Charles Schmidt, looking for rain. (Lee Hart photo)
General, Machinery, Weather

AIM for Hart: An informative first day

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Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s official. If you want your province to dry out call Charles Schmidt. This climatological fact was among the many things I learned at the first day of the 2017 Ag In Motion (AIM) farm show near Langham, Sask. Tuesday (about 20 minutes from Saskatoon — the show is still running Wednesday and Thursday, so […] Read more
Coming soon: AGDealerTV
General, Machinery

Coming soon: AGDealerTV

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Reading Time: < 1 minute AGDealer, Glacier FarmMedia’s online home for an inventory of over 30,000 pieces of Canadian farm equipment for sale, is about to both show and tell farmers more about new machinery and tech entering the market. Now in production for a launch in the near future, AGDealerTV will be AGDealer’s new video series, aiming to inform […] Read more
(Scott Bauer photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Crops, Machinery

Hogs seen as key factor in input cost hikes

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — Canada’s Farm Input Price Index has climbed slightly for the first quarter of this year. Canada-wide, the index rose 1.3 per cent for the first quarter of this year compared to the final quarter of 2016. When comparing this year’s first quarter to last year’s first quarter, however, input prices in the […] Read more
(GreenhouseJuice.com)
Crops, Fruit/Vegetables, Machinery

Toronto juice firm backed for ‘cold pasteurization’

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Reading Time: 2 minutes A Toronto organic juice processor that bills itself as shunning conventional pasteurization for its products has picked up federal funding to develop a “new-to-Canada” way to extend their shelf life. The federal government on Friday announced a “repayable investment” of up to $6.3 million from the AgriInnovation program for Greenhouse Juice Co. to set up […] Read more
Speaking July 5 at the Crop Diagnostic School in Carman, Manitoba Agriculture’s Terry Buss shows a Roundup Ready 2 soybean plot dying due to dicamba drifting over from the Xtend soybean plot at left. (Allan Dawson photo)
Crops, Machinery, Soybeans, Weather

Xtend soybeans expand options, but be dicamba-drift aware

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Reading Time: 4 minutes New dicamba- and glyphosate-tolerant soybeans offer more weed control options and are another tool to address herbicide-tolerant weeds, but farmers need to take steps to avoid dicamba drift and spray tank residue, Manitoba officials say. What’s been happening in Arkansas underscores the risk dicamba drift presents. The U.S. state of Arkansas on Friday announced a […] Read more
A screengrab from a promotional video for Bayer’s Proline fungicide. (Bayer CropScience Canada via YouTube)
Crops, Machinery

Finer nozzle screens linked to Proline plug-ups

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Bayer CropScience is recommending users of its Proline foliar fungicide double-check the nozzles they’re using before spraying, to avoid the “plugging issues” affecting some customers’ sprayers. The company on Wednesday reported a “small” number of cases in which farmers’ sprayers were plugging up during applications of Proline, a broad-spectrum prothioconazole (Group 3) suspension Bayer bills […] Read more
A rail car from SGCC’s fleet. (Dave Bedard photo)
Crops, Machinery

Three shortlines to buy Saskatchewan’s grain cars

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Reading Time: 2 minutes The Saskatchewan government has picked the three buyers who will divvy up its provincially-owned fleet of grain hopper cars. The province, in its March budget, announced a request for offer (RFO) for the Saskatchewan Grain Car Corporation’s (SGCC) fleet of rail cars as it winds down that operation. The province said it would give “first […] Read more
SeedMaster’s Norbert Beaujot sees DOT technology as one solution to a shortage of skilled operators.
Machinery

Not just a driverless tractor, but no tractor at all

A global launch at Ag in Motion could change the way you farm

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Reading Time: 4 minutes While farmers have been waiting impatiently for equipment designers to commercialize the driverless tractor, Prairie inventor and entrepreneur Norbert Beaujot has found a way to ditch the tractor altogether. And he’s rolling it out for the first time in July 18 to 20 at Ag in Motion (AIM), Western Canada’s outdoor farm show now in […] Read more
A group of companies headed by Bosch has created a new digitally integrated cab designed for use in a variety of off-road machines. It builds on technologies used in the automotive sector.
Guide Business, Machinery

A Genius in the tractor cab

This systems supplier is integrating cutting-edge automotive safety systems into off-road equipment cabs

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Reading Time: 4 minutes A few years ago I had the pleasure of interviewing the industrial designer who styled the cab and body of the first Challenger 65 belted ag tractors, which were then part of the Caterpillar brand before coming under AGCO ownership. Before coming to Cat, the designer had spent several years working for General Motors and […] Read more

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