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Editor’s Desk: The question of farm growth

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Reading Time: 2 minutes It was a question that went all around the table. I was in Illinois with a group of Canadian and American farmers, and the discussion leader kept track of all their answers on a whiteboard. Here’s the question. In the last 30 to 40 years, how much has your family expanded the number of acres […] Read more
farmer thinking with hands crossed
Guide Life

Time management for farmers can make for less stress

How do you manage today’s increased workload without hitting the red zone?

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Growing up on a farm in upstate New York, Julie Gray thought she was learning lessons that she could share with executives and entrepreneurs in virtually every other line of business. It turns out she was learning lessons that today’s farmers need to learn too. From her office near Washington, DC, Gray is now an […] Read more
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Crops

The farm drones are getting closer

Airframe, camera and computer technologies are rapidly evolving in favour of farmer applications

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Reading Time: 5 minutes The next revolution in farming isn’t about chemistry or genetics. It’s about scouting, and the good news is that the enabling technology has come several giant steps closer in just the last two years, thanks to unmanned aerial vehicles (popularly called UAVs or drones) which offer a visual platform for scientific crop monitoring. Drones are […] Read more
tractor simulator
Crops, Machinery

Tractor simulator bridges the gap between operator and computer

Simulators are helping engineers finally figure out how best to get your brain and the tractor’s brain working together

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Reading Time: 6 minutes It’s a good run with the tractor this time. The driver has no trouble piloting a straight line across the field, the machine is humming happily, and the display monitor confirms that all is well. The discs are cutting nicely through the field trash too, and the seed is getting dropped right on target. Then […] Read more
Kinze grain cart
Crops, Machinery

Here come the farm robots

Robotic tractors are already in advanced field tests, and the results are producing great optimism

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Phil Jennings of Kinze Manufacturing gets a big kick out of riding in their modified tractor when it’s hauling one of their grain carts during a real Iowa harvest. When the call goes out for the cart, the tractor starts chugging across the field to where the combine is working. Jennings just sits there and […] Read more
Paul Wipf
Guide Business

A new venture

If you want to talk diversification in Canadian farming, you’ve got to talk Hutterite. Fortunately, it’s a topic Paul Wipf is proud to discuss

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Reading Time: 7 minutes Paul Wipf is a Hutterite ambassador of sorts. He has talked about life on Hutterite colonies at Alberta farm shows, he speaks openly to reporters, and he puts time and effort into helping the general public see what it means to be Hutterite. Wipf is also the farm steward — he doesn’t like the title […] Read more
corn in a hopper truck
Corn, Crops

Two ‘Leading Edge’ innovations for corn growers

Designed by a farmer, one innovation fills your truck more efficiently. The second cuts losses at harvest

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Reading Time: 5 minutes In times of tighter margins, most farmers step up their search for some advantage to improve their farming operation. Whether it’s new or old, they’re hoping to find something that boosts production, trims costs or, even better, does both. Even sweeter is if that innovation was developed through the vision of another farmer. That helps […] Read more
PHOTOS: Pest Patrol: What are the best apps for agriculture?
Crops

PHOTOS: Pest Patrol: What are the best apps for agriculture?

Six apps that that can help you with crop production, record keeping, product support and social media

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Below is a summary of a live demo of different agriculture apps that Peter Gredig (AgNition) and I gave at this year’s FarmSmart Agriculture Conference at the University of Guelph. Rule #1: Unless you’re looking for games like Farmville, Farming Simulator or Kid’s Farming Sim Tractor, search for apps in Google first before searching through […] Read more
It isn’t about bigger or smaller equipment, says farmer Henry Holtmann. It’s all about how efficiently you farm.
Crops, Machinery

Data collection, integrated systems are the changing face of farm equipment

Precision farming is giving more farmers the power to control how many acres they need to crop

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Reading Time: 5 minutes The colours of agriculture are changing. Today a trade show is a patchwork — three shades of green, several types of red, the standard blue and even some yellow. But farmers aren’t just looking at the colour of the paint when they shop for tractors and implements these days. According to Henry Holtmann, vice-chair of […] Read more
aaron wheeler university of toronto
Crops

A crop diagnostic lab on a microchip

New technology is bringing the science lab to the field for better, faster scouting decisions

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Reading Time: 5 minutes It’s a sentence nobody likes to hear, especially in the midst of all the time pressures and the short windows of farming today. “I’m not sure about this, we’d better send a sample to the lab.” It might be an agrologist or crop scout who says it to you, or a plant pathologist or veterinarian, […] Read more

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