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Equipment, Machinery

VIDEO: Drone sprayer offers large carrying capacity

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With a tank capacity of 50 litres and a 12-minute charge time, the XAG drone demonstrated at Ag in Motion earlier this month is specifically designed for agriculture. As Canada inches closer to legislating how these new aerial technologies can be used for spraying – not, as of yet, for farm practices – companies such […] Read more
The Stratus AirSprayer is essentially a powered paraglider — one that can carry heavier loads and stay aloft much longer than conventional drones. Photo: Supplied
Machinery, News

Paraglider powers a new kind of sprayer

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The Stratus AirSprayer is different than the quadcopters and fixed-wing UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) typically associated with ag drones. Essentially, it’s a powered paraglider — one that can carry heavier loads and stay aloft much longer than conventional drones.
A paraglider powers the Stratus AirSprayer. Photo: Supplied
Machinery, News

Paraglider powers a new kind of sprayer

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The Stratus AirSprayer is different than the quadcopters and fixed-wing UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) typically associated with ag drones. Essentially, it’s a powered paraglider — one that can carry heavier loads and stay aloft much longer than conventional drones.
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Machinery, News

Cyber attack frustrates farm equipment dealers

Dealers forced to use manual processes after software provider hacked

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CDK provides business management software to dealers of all makes of farm equipment, so major dealers of John Deere, CNH and are working without digital systems across the country. CDK is also the leading provider of management software to automobile dealers and thousands of those dealerships are offline.
Equipment, Machinery, Markets

Geared-down expectations

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What are other machinery manufacturers telling their shareholders to expect as they plow ahead into 2024? CNH (Case IH, New Holland) For its first quarter (Q1) ending March 31, CNH said sales volumes in North America were down two per cent for higher-horsepower (over 140 hp) tractors, and down 15 per cent for lower-horsepower tractors, […] Read more
autonomous sprayer at dusk
Features, Forages

Night spraying for forage pest can spare pollinators

Spraying after sundown is also more effective in controlling lesser clover leaf weevil

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Glacier FarmMedia — Prairie forage growers who plan to spray for a particular problem pest, but want to avoid collateral damage to more beneficial insects, may get their best and cleanest shot in the dark. Forage and seed producers heard about the benefits of night spraying for red clover crops during the Saskatchewan Forage Seed […] Read more
Treating and not treating alternating strips of pasture with insecticides has been found to keep grasshoppers in check — while helping to maintain populations of the pest’s natural predators.
Crops, Features

Reduced-area pest spraying can still hit moving targets

The RAAT method can cut insecticide use in half and still kill most grasshoppers on pasture

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Glacier FarmMedia — Grasshoppers, as their name suggests, hop from place to place in grassy fields. Taking advantage of that natural behaviour, University of Wyoming scientists have devised a way to control grasshoppers on pastures with smaller volumes of pesticides. The method is called Reduced Agent and Area Treatments (RAAT), in which farmers apply an […] Read more
Your fearless columnist tosses the cell for electrical conductivity (EC) measurement into the Montreal River at Saskatchewan Highway 2 in July 2005. Results are recorded in a notebook and all is carried in a briefcase. I have notebooks like that all the way back to 1982. At this location, water EC is 260 uS/cm. In the north, water is mostly low EC; the standard for comparison is the South Saskatchewan River system that runs through Saskatoon, with an EC of about 450 uS/cm at 25 C.
Columns

Water chemistry: a Coles Notes version

Soils & Crops: Conductivity and hardness of water samples show what you can use it for

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First of all: readers who have Henry’s Handbook of Soil and Water can check out pages 124-125 for a detailed discussion of water chemistry, complete with calculations. Water is considered to be the universal solvent because it is capable of dissolving more substances than any other liquid. Therefore, one of the first things we might […] Read more

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