Scott Garvey

As crop prices increase, the financial value of field losses during harvesting can become pretty significant. So time spent fine tuning combine adjustments can pay dividends. But properly sampling losses during harvesting can be difficult, especially for anyone working alone. However, Roland Requier of Westlock, Alberta, has created a handy device designed to deal with […] Read more

A shield designed to fit on a combine feeder house minimizes header losses, especially in canola fields

A couple of years ago, Karl Koch, a grain grower at Marsden, Sask., noticed he had a problem with his combine. Kernels were being thrown over top of the feeder house by the header auger as he harvested canola. “Dad and I thought we were losing a lot canola over the front end,” he says. […] Read more

This expert believes most farmers are overlooking key considerations when it comes to combine adjustment and operation

If you hired a custom harvester and saw him travelling at eight miles per hour across your canola field while threshing, would you race out there and throw yourself in front of the combine to stop him? I suspect many farmers would. But if you hired Martin Reichelt that’s exactly what you’d see. And he […] Read more

New Holland’s CR line of twin-rotor combines, with new features for 2012, impressed judges at Agritechnica


2011 was a notable year for New Holland. The company raked in an armful of engineering awards. Most notable, though, was winning the “Machine of the year, 2012” prize for its CR Series, twin-rotor combines at Agritechnica in November. Agritechnica, held in Hannover Germany, is the world’s largest farm machinery exhibition. There were new combines […] Read more

Last summer, Quebec-based Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP), introduced a new product in its Can-Am lineup: the Commander, a prototype electric-drive UTV. The electric-drive technology under the hood of the Commander was developed in conjunction with the Centre de technologies avancées BRP at the University de Sherbrooke. The Commander, like several other Can-AM products, will be built at a […] Read more

Now that 2012 model-year tractors with new Interim Tier 4-compliant (IT4) engines are making their way through testing at the Nebraska Tractor Test Lab (NTTL), the results are starting to trickle in. Case IH’s Steiger tractors were among the first machines to be evaluated. When Case IH management first showed the new IT4-compliant Steigers to […] Read more

For mixed farmers and other forage producers, determining when windrows of hay are ready to bale can seem a bit more like an art than a science. Of course, there are a variety of moisture testers on the market that can provide some hard and fast data, but using them typically involves choosing spots to […] Read more

Hay and forage producers can track production quality and costs with Case IH’s new AFS Connect telematics packages


The sight of a tractor and heavy disc breaking up hay and pasture land in mixed farming areas hasn’t exactly been a rare one in the last couple of years. Strong grain and oilseeds prices have been driving farm incomes and pulling acres aware from hay and forage production. “We’re seeing a reduction in hay […] Read more