Reading Time: 8 minutes The off-label application of pesticides in Canada is going to increase exponentially over the next few years. This is what I believe and expect, and I expect too that it will pit farmers, government regulators, pesticide companies, equipment manufacturers and environmentalists against one another. In fact, the blame game has already started. At issue is […] Read more
Summer Series: Drone spraying
[Change Management] Farmers really don’t care who is to blame for the delays. They just want the regulations changed yesterday so they can spray tomorrow
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
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.
New Massey Sprayer comes to NFMS, combines and grain carts get synchronized
Reading Time: 2 minutes Product offerings that simplify how farmers work in the field often get more than a cursory glance on the farm show floor. This is the case for two machinery manufacturers at the National Farm Machinery Show (NFMS) in Louisville, Kentucky. Day two of the NFMS saw Massey Ferguson debut its 500R sprayer to attendees, and […] Read more
Agritechnica update: Canadian content and a John Deere update
Reading Time: 2 minutes There’s significant Canadian content at Agritechnica. Large companies like AGI and MacDon have impressive displays with significant real estate. I also happened upon the Canada pavilion, packed with companies familiar to many of us, including Honey Bee, Mankato, Schulte and Bushel Plus. The companies say that there’s value in companies from Canada banding together to […] Read more
How optical sprayers do a whole lot more
[Better Advice] Optical spraying systems can pay off if used only for pre-seed burnoffs, but with a little pushing of boundaries, these farmers are finding they can also use the technology to target fungicides and pre-harvest desiccants
Reading Time: 5 minutes Early adopters are buying optical spraying systems to greatly reduce the amount of herbicide required for pre-season burnoff of weeds. This alone is often enough to justify the cost for larger farms that cover thousands of acres per year. But pre-seed burnoff — seeing green weeds on brown ground and spraying them — is just […] Read more
CNH shows off its new farm tech
Technology day event gives a glimpse of what’s to come from its brands
Reading Time: 6 minutes We are in a difficult world,” said Scott Wine, CEO of CNH Industrial, as he took the stage to welcome a group of journalists to the company’s Technology Day near Phoenix, Arizona, last fall. “It’s brutal out there.” He was referring to a number of pressures manufacturers are feeling from global concerns affecting all brands […] Read more
Putting autonomous machinery to the test
Saskatchewan farmers get a chance for a season with an autonomous fertilizer spreader
Reading Time: 5 minutes Anyone who has operated or worked on repairing machinery has from time to time cursed the engineer who came up with an awkward design, or when fighting with a part that is nearly impossible to remove and replace when it fails. But what if one of the major brands knocked on your door and asked […] Read more
CNH buys spray boom manufacturing capacity
Specialty Enterprises has supplied Case IH with booms
Reading Time: < 1 minute A Wisconsin company that has supplied aluminum spray booms for Case IH sprayer product lines has been brought in-house. CNH Industrial, owner of the Case IH and New Holland brands, announced May 23 it has bought Specialty Enterprises, which is billed as North America’s biggest maker of aluminum spray booms for farm applications as well […] Read more
Sprayer designs save the day
Chemical application is under the microscope, and farmers around the world face future limitations on inputs, especially herbicides
Reading Time: 5 minutes “Welcome to the new world of spraying,” quipped Roeland Coopman, chief commercial officer at Agrifac, a European-based sprayer manufacturer, as he made a presentation during a recent online media conference streamed live from Paris, France. Those words are no exaggeration. How chemicals are applied on farm fields in developed countries across the planet is poised […] Read more
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