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The farmland cost factor
Crops, Features

The farmland cost factor

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Fixed costs come out of the gross margin (gross revenue minus operating costs). Ideally the margin over operating costs should be around 35 per cent of gross revenue, with equipment costs at 12 per cent, owner withdrawals at five per cent and land costs at 18 per cent of gross revenue. But as land purchase […] Read more
Production costs for spring planning
Crops, Features

Production costs for spring planning

For farmers in southern Manitoba, soybeans are pencilling in well for this spring

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Across the Prairies, new cost of production figures and calculators for 2017 are appearing on provincial websites to help producers make sound production, management and marketing decisions. On the marketing side things look a little rosier than they did this time last year. “When you look forward to September 2017, it doesn’t look as bad […] Read more
To help celebrate their 20-year anniversary, Apache-brand sprayers get a host of improvements.
Machinery

Apache sprayer updates

The brand adds another boom 
choice and system enhancements

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Indiana-based ET Works recently announced several new options and updates for its 2017 line of Apache sprayers. The Apaches’ standard spray booms will now feature quick-service, Banjo-style manifold fittings and Hypro nozzle bodies. Stainless steel boom plumbing will now be an option too. To support all that equipment, the brand’s 90- and 100-foot booms get […] Read more
Agrifac’s new FastFoldPlus can unfold a 48 metre (157.5 foot) sprayer boom in 22 seconds.
Machinery

Agrifac speeds things up

FastFoldPlus boom system deploys in seconds

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Dutch sprayer manufacturer Agrifac just added a new feature to its unique line of SP sprayers, the FastFoldPlus boom. This new system significantly reduces the amount of time it takes to fold and unfold the boom. Although exact times vary depending on the overall width, the company says a three-fold, 48 metre (157.5 foot) boom […] Read more
The new Chembine chemical mixer was introduced in September.
Machinery

Bourgault introduces the Chembine

A new chemical mixer from the brand’s Free Form Plastics division

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In late September Bourgault Industries’ Free Form Plastics division announced the market introduction of its Chembine chemical mixer. “The Chembine incorporates all the features of existing chemical mixers plus adds more user friendly features and several patent pending new designs,” reads the company’s news release. Among those new features is a newly designed knife block […] Read more
Grain cars moving, but not fast enough for some farmers
Cereals, News

Grain cars moving, but not fast enough for some farmers

Poor weather slows loading on the West Coast

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With spring around the corner, some farmers are worried they won’t get grain delivered before road bans and field work begins. Brian Stratuliak is a grain and cattle producer in the Dawson Creek, B.C., area. He had planned to deliver 300 tonnes of feed wheat this winter, but has only been able to deliver 120 […] Read more
Tom Wolf speaking at Manitoba Ag Days.
Machinery

Industry expert says we’re in a cycle

Tom Wolf offered some observations of today’s sprayers and practices during a presentation

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During his public presentation at Manitoba Ag Days in Brandon in January, sprayer expert Tom Wolf, who is part of Agrimetrix Research & Training in Saskatchewan, provided a professional critique of today’s commercially available spraying equipment and on-farm practices. He told the audience about an early, low-cost sprayer his family put together on their farm […] Read more
I’m ashamed of my cropping plans, but I’m guessing I’m not alone.
Columns, Crops

Crop rotation planning shenanigans

After a couple of seasons on the farm, it’s time to re-consider crop planning strategies


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The following is about shenanigans. My shenanigans. But it is also about folklore versus science; coffee-shop advice versus better judgment; the devil on your shoulder versus the truth. Specifically, though, this is about crop planning. And by the end of this piece, I hope we both will have learned something. Because, contrary to the familiar […] Read more

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