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The Silverado is available with three different engine options, a 4.3 V-6 along with 5.3 and 6.2 litre V-8s.
Machinery

A new face for the Silverado 1500

GM gives its Silverado truck a facelift and some digital updates for 2016

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The 2016 Silverado that GM sent to the Canadian Truck King Challenge in October was a preproduction model, so the event judges were among the first Canadians to get behind the wheel of one. Unfortunately because it was a preproduction model, it will soon be crushed; it can’t be sold. That’s a real shame, because […] Read more
These overhead ultra-high frequency transponders can read tags as cattle pass by.
Cattleman’s Corner, Livestock

New RFID tech improves livestock tag readers

New system works at greater distance and can read groups of animals

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Researchers at SAIT Polytechnic in Calgary have developed a new Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system using Ultra-High Frequency (UHF) tags that will make it easier and faster to track and trace cattle at every stage of their movement from the farm to the processing plant. With the new system, animals do not need to go […] Read more
Ford and drone developer DJI are looking to integrate UAV control into a pickup’s digital system for a variety of future applications, including agriculture.
Machinery

A Ford F150 sync’d to your UAV?

Ford issues a new “Drone-to-vehicle developer challenge” to software engineers

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James Bond has his special Aston Martin car complete with ejection seat and all kinds of high-tech gizmos. If Ford has its way, farmers may soon have an F150 pickup at their disposal that would make Q, Bond’s car creator, proud. Ford has been working with drone developer DJI and the two companies have launched […] Read more
Wheat & Chaff

Create safe play areas for kids

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This year, for Canadian Agricultural Safety Week, the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association is working towards “Keeping Kids Safe” as a part of the three-year theme of “Be An Ag Safe Family.” Part of keeping kids safe on the farm is creating, using, and maintaining a safe play area. Play teaches children co-operation. Play helps children […] Read more
FarmLife

‘We wish parents understood!’

Many young farmers have some issues they wish the older generation would realize

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We wish parents understood” was part of the Twitter feed from young farmers attending the fabulous AgExcellence Conference 2015, put on by Farm Management Canada in Regina. I was only able to monitor the tweets as I could not physically attend, but this nugget showed up and I’d like to express my take on their comments based […] Read more
Columns, Features

How farmers can up their game

10 ways to run your farm more like a professional business

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Farming is often described as both a lifestyle and a living. And and although not every farm is a small business, even a small farm is a business. That concept of running a business like a business, though, can often get lost in the day to day management of a farm operation, especially if there […] Read more
Writing those monthly paycheques
Columns, Features

Writing those monthly paycheques

Are we farmers paying ourselves as much as we’re paying our hired help?

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The paycheques have been signed for another month and it brings to mind the joke about the tax man and the farm owner/operator having a conversation about wages: “I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them,” demanded the agent. “Well,” replied the farmer, “there’s my farm hand. I pay him […] Read more
Alberta consultant, Merle Good, right, speaks with Nova Scotia farmers Wayne and Nicole Oulton in Edmonton about getting the most out of tax strategies and new approaches to farm business arrangements.
Columns, Features

Defining roles can save the farm

Deciding and confirming “who’s in charge here” can take frustration out of the family farm

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Improved communications and actually defining roles and responsibilities on a family farm can not only make the day go better, but can actually save a farm business, says a long-time Alberta consultant. Confusion over who is in charge can lead to some very stressful situations, says Merle Good, a well know consulting agricultural tax specialist […] Read more
We’re comparing New Holland’s T6030 and its contemporaries in this market review.
Machinery

Utility tractor comparison shopping

We compare some buying choices for late-model,100-plus horsepower tractors

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In our market review this time we’re focusing on late-model tractors just above the 100 horsepower mark, something ideal for livestock producers. We picked models that mate well with a front-end loader, are nimble enough to manoeuvre around livestock pens and still powerful enough to handle haying operations in the field. As usual we’re relying […] Read more

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