Lacasse’s Pro-Level 16XL land leveller offers a 30-cubic metre capacity to move a lot of soil quickly, and a blade uniquely designed to precisely grade and finish a contoured surface.
Equipment
Lacasse aims for both power and precision with new large scraper
The Quebec company’s 30-cubic metre scraper offers advanced levelling and grading capability
A new easy conversion of hopper bins to aeration
The removable Wavcor Manhole aeration attachment is a low-cost upgrade
Saskatoon-based Wavcor’s Manhole system inserts a short length of ducting through existing manhole covers on bin hoppers, offering an easy, bolt-on way to get airflow through binned grain.
A new grain bag baler from Loftness
Company adds new model to handle up to 12-foot diameter bags
Loftness has introduced a 12-foot grain bag baler, which can make disposing of used grain bags a simpler and less labour-intensive process.
Airblast grain drying fan flexes practicality, portability
Wavcor’s Airblast fan doesn’t have a traditional, dedicated heat source such as a burner or heating element to dry grain: it uses the heat generated by its 22-horsepower Kohler engine for that task.
An innovative flop: Remembering the Ford 6000 tractor
How the cutting-edge tractor and its failure-prone transmission became a marketing nightmare for the brand
The tractors were available with either a 223-cubic inch gasoline or a 242-cubic inch diesel engine — but a groundbreaking innovation for its time, the Select-O-Speed powershift transmission behind those engines, turned out to be the tractors’ early downfall.
Supersized grain carts a weighty problem
They can boost harvest efficiencies, but also ramp up risk of serious soil compaction. Here are some tips to reduce that risk
Grain carts can still cause serious soil compaction whether they’re on tracks or wheels, but Scott Shearer’s research at Ohio State indicates less of a yield hit with tracks compared to wheels in unfavourable soil conditions. Here are some tips to reduce compaction risk.
We evaluate the Defend cellular camera system
Grainews Practical Test: We test-drive a new security camera and app
Iowa-based Tactacam sent us a Defend cellular-based remote security monitoring system to try out for ourselves, so we put it to the test. Here’s how that went and what we thought of it.
New Case IH guidance tech keeps implements on track
Active Implement Guidance designed to greatly reduce or eliminate drift in the field
Case IH’s Active Implement Guidance shares guidance line data between your implement and your tractor, to help hold implements to the tractor’s course and prevent drift on uneven terrain or turns.
New Holland 9200 Series corn heads
“We need high-capacity front equipment to get the high capacity out of the base unit”
The 9200s come in four configurations: eight-row, 12-row, 16-row and 18-row, with spacings ranging between 20, 22 and 30 inches.
Quicke offers new bale-handling loader attachment
The grab protects bales from excessive compression while lifting
The compression grab design on Quicke’s Unigrip attachment makes it suitable for picking up wrapped silage bales without puncturing the plastic wrap.
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