Reading Time: 4 minutes I announced yesterday to a couple colleagues who work for the Western Producer, “We are wasting our time and energies writing stories. What idiots. If we want real financial success in life — sell ice cream.” That was my take home message from Day 2 (Wednesday) at the Ag In Motion (AIM) farm show near […] Read more
AIM for Hart, Day 2: The road to success, one scoop at a time
AIM for Hart: An informative first day
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
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
Not just a driverless tractor, but no tractor at all
A global launch at Ag in Motion could change the way you farm
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
VIDEO: Canada’s agricultural markets update for July 20
Reading Time: < 1 minute D’Arce McMillan, markets editor for The Western Producer, monitors trends in the North American and global agricultural markets. His latest video update on the crops market came from the recent 2016 Ag in Motion.
PHOTOS: Ag in Motion: Photo gallery wrap-up
A few more final sights from Western Canada's Outdoor Farm Expo
Reading Time: < 1 minute A product rep from New Leader, which demonstrated one of their dry fertilizer spreaders, showed onlookers how the spread patterns of new machines are much more consistent than what the previous generation of spreaders was capable of.
PHOTOS: Ag in Motion is underway!
Reading Time: < 1 minute Farmers and agribusinesses in Western Canada are seeing the latest agricultural technology in action at Ag In Motion, Western Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show. Set up on 320 acres 15 minutes northwest of Saskatoon, Sask., Ag in Motion features live demonstrations of field equipment, crops and services. Ag in Motion runs from July 21 to July […] Read more
Farmers offered a prize for 100-bushel canola
Reading Time: < 1 minute Producing bigger crops on the same amount of land is the challenge for ensuring world food security. North American canola growers who want to meet that challenge now have an extra incentive — a complete John Deere equipment package if they’re the first to grow 100 bushels per acre on 50 acres of canola. Canola […] Read more
A new farm show hits the Prairies
Ag in Motion will focus on practical demonstrations and field plots in Western Canada this summer
Reading Time: 5 minutes As a machinery editor, one of the places where I’ve come to feel most at home is in the aisles of a farm equipment show. I’ve logged many miles walking those aisles in the last few years. But I’ve also come to learn that those aisles aren’t all the same. Clearly, not all farm shows […] Read more
Outdoor Farm Show owner sets sights on Saskatchewan
Reading Time: 2 minutes The owners of the biggest outdoor farm show in Canada have announced plans to put the business model to work northwest of Saskatoon. Farm publishing house Glacier FarmMedia, owners of the Woodstock, Ont.-based Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show and this website, on Wednesday announced its chosen site and date for the inaugural edition of what it’s dubbed Ag in […] Read more
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