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Michael Hicks first realized he had wild boar on his pasture after setting up a game camera over Thanksgiving. After Hicks shot two of the pigs, the rest scattered. But one pig keeps returning. Hicks thinks it lost its mate after the scramble, and is hoping to reunite. Note the long hair.
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Wild boar cause trouble on farms

There are many feral wild boar across the Prairies, but few of us will ever actually see them

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Michael Hicks likes to talk about wildlife. The Glaslyn-area farmer still chuckles about the time he watched a black bear stand as high as it could on its hind legs, longing for out-of-reach oats in a grain truck. But just after Thanksgiving, Hicks’ game camera recorded something new in his pasture near Thunderchild Reserve, in northwestern […] Read more
An Autonomous Greenbot tractor with attached roto-tiller on display at Agritechnica. 

Machinery

Heading toward autonomy

On display at Agritechnica: a driverless Dutch-built tractor hits the market

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General purpose, completely autonomous (driverless) tractors may be the holy grail of farm equipment design. And over the past few years a wide variety of companies have offered farmers enticing glimpses of what the future may hold in that area. There have been a number of limited-use robotic machines introduced to do specific tasks on […] Read more
Young Farmer Carrying a Bale of Hay
FarmLife

Gleanings and goals of young farmers for their future

Eager ag entrepreneurs are looking for ways to improve themselves and their businesses

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In Regina last November, Farm Management Canada hosted the Ag Excellence conference which I was only able to attend via my Twitter feed. I love this group because there is a sea of young eager ag entrepreneurs looking for new ways to improve themselves and their businesses. Advice from young farmers at AgEXCONF 2015 the […] Read more
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Time to distribute the farm assets

Farm Financial Planner: At age 80, Mary wants to pass her wealth on to her family and a favourite charity

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As her 80th birthday approaches, a farm widow we’ll call Mary finds herself in a dilemma. Her husband Bob passed away 10 years ago, leaving substantial life insurance benefits which she used to cover living expenses and farm losses. Mary’s 1,280-acre grain farm is rented to tenants. The farm has broken even with recent high […] Read more
The UniCrawler is designed to provide extra floatation for wheeled trailers moving across soft fields.
Machinery

UniCrawler adds more floatation

German manufacturer uses tracked carrier to keep trailers out of the mud

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Rubber track systems have been gaining a lot of interest in all areas of farm machinery design lately. But one German manufacturer, Annaburger, has taken the application of tracks a step beyond the usual tires-to-tracks conversion concept and created a floating chassis, which is designed to carry wheeled trailers across soft terrain. Tractor-drawn trailers are […] Read more
LIVE BLOG: Alberta FarmTech 2016
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LIVE BLOG: Alberta FarmTech 2016

Event begins Tuesday, Jan. 26 and runs to Thursday, Jan. 28

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Edmonton’s EXPO Centre at Northlands is the place to be for producers and the public during Alberta FarmTech 2016, running from Jan. 26 to Jan. 28. Want up-to-the-minute information on what’s going on at FarmTech? Check out our live blog page here! FarmTech features more than 50 sessions and a world class lineup of speakers providing […] Read more
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Livestock, Weather

Ontario weighs mandatory beekeeping practices in draft plan

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Fresh off limiting farmers’ use of neonicotinoid seed treatments, the Ontario government now wants public comment on further moves it might make to improve the health of bees and other pollinators in the province. Among the “potential actions” up for consideration in the province’s new draft action plan are the use of public lands to expand […] Read more
The company won a Silver Innovation award for its quick-change ballasting system at Agritechnica 2015.
Machinery

John Deere debuts new EZ Ballast

A quick-attach system allows five second ballast adjustments on 7R tractors

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John Deere took home a Silver Innovation award at Agritechnica this year for its newest idea in tractor ballasting, intended to make getting the right amount of weight on each axle a much simpler job. Attaching and removing wheel weights is so difficult, no one really bothers touching them once they’re bolted on. But there […] Read more
This concept model displayed at Agritechnica represents the design direction Czech tractor manufacturer Zetor plans to take its tractor line.
Machinery

Zetor teams with Pininfarina

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Any automotive enthusiast worth his salt will instantly recognize the name Pininfarina, the famous Italian design studio whose artistic vision has helped create many classic car bodies. A lot of them have graced the world’s premiere auto shows. This year, however, one of their designs is being worn by a tractor and featured at Germany’s […] Read more

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