While the initial launch of a new piece of equipment is always exciting, feedback from the farmers that use it in the field can help to make some pretty impressive improvements. In the case of Horsch's Leeb VL sprayer this has meant a bigger tank, bigger booms, a bigger engine, easy to change fenders, changes... Read More
Category: Machinery
The old saying "it's not how you start that's important, but how you finish" applies to the story of the 2024 soybean crop on the Prairies and Northern Plains. Final yield numbers from crop insurance — usually the best overall estimate — are not yet public, but Statistics Canada says Manitoba farmers set a new... Read More
No two pieces of land are the same. Geringhoff had this in mind when they designed the XtremeFlex Razor (XFR) Draper Head. As Lucas Haas of Geringhoff says in this interview from Agri-Trade at Red Deer, the XFR Draper Head was engineered in Germany with the North American market in mind. The head works on... Read More
Farmers got their first look at new John Deere predictive ground speed automation harvesting technology this fall and they like what they've seen, reports Bergen Nelson, Deere’s go-to-market manager for harvesting equipment. Earlier this year, the company rolled out both predictive ground speed automation and harvest settings automation on its model year 2025 S7 combines.... Read More
For the second year in a row, Robin Nikkel of Ladner, British Columbia has returned north from the world's largest farm toy show in Iowa with a championship trophy in hand. Nikkel's model farm display was the judges' top pick in the large-scale (1:32) category at the Toy Farmer magazine's 47th annual National Farm Toy... Read More
When asked about tillage, RealAgriculture's Peter "Wheat Pete" Johnson says to do as little as you can. But when tillage is necessary what should it be — disc ripping? Moldboard plowing? In this episode of Wheat Pete's Word, Pete says that tillage erosion is 10 times worse than wind and water erosion. The disc ripper... Read More
Federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay was in Regina this week to attend Canadian Western Agribition. MacAulay participated in the "Burning of the Brand" ceremony to open Agribition, delivered remarks at the Indigenous Agriculture Summit and Agribition's Grain Expo, and met with stakeholders, including Saskatchewan's new Ag Minister Daryl Harrison and cattle industry leaders. The ag... Read More
Speed and flexibility is everything when a farmer is in the middle of harvest and needing to get grain trucks emptied as quickly as possible. The X-Tend on AGI's swing auger allows for a great level of flexibility by making it so that the grower doesn't need to move the truck back and forth on... Read More
Agricultural producers have a wide variety of needs and put a lot of demands on their tractors; cattle producers working in corrals and growers working in tight spaces in the farm yard are examples of this. Fendt kept both maneuverability and flexibility in mind when they designed the 600 Series tractors. These tractors, in the... Read More
Compaction is a common concern with farmers throughout North America, especially in high traffic areas such as approaches and headlands. In this report from Agri-Trade at Red Deer, Alta., Derek Molnar of Degelman Industries discusses the company's new Heavy Duty Staggered Ripper (HDSR) that he says is built heavy but simplified, is easy-to-use and offers... Read More