Reading Time: 2 minutes Ray Harrington, an innovative farmer from Western Australia was struggling with herbicide-resistant weeds, so he took matters into his own hands by using a cage mill from an old mine that he adapted to process the chaff coming out the back of his combine. A team from the University of Western Australia, led by Michael […] Read more
Pest Patrol: Are there any promising new mechanical methods for weed control?
The Harrington seed destructor is one possibility to help avoid spreading weed seed
The straight goods on straight cutting crops
Straight cutting has the potential to make canola harvest much more efficient, so we ask one of the West’s top researchers about the state of the art
Reading Time: 5 minutes Just 20 years ago, virtually every acre of Western Canada was swathed before it ever saw a combine. But then a few things started to fall into place — mainly cheaper off-patent glyphosate — that meant farmers could stop the growth of their crops and get them to dry them down more quickly and uniformly. […] Read more
Cut canola later, combine slower come harvest
Canola harvest losses can be a lot worse than you think. Swathing later is one way to boost yield. Refining your combine ground speed and other settings is another
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canola growers are leaving a lot of yield on the table. Or, more accurately, they are leaving a lot of yield “off” the table and on the ground at harvest. Estimates put losses from the harvest process alone at two to five bu./ac., on average. Early swathing adds to that total. Growers have two key ways […] Read more
Grain carts and wagons: Part 2
Equipment to get your crop off the field once its ready for harvest
Reading Time: 2 minutes Demco Harvest Link Working to ease the bottlenecks between the combine, the grain cart and trucks waiting at harvest, Demco is working on its Harvest Link system. It was so new in July 2013, there were only two units. But its capabilities and data co-ordination potential are considerable. The key is keeping everything moving and […] Read more
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