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This mock up shows the design of the hydraulic Auger Side Shift axle, which won an innovation award at Canada’s Farm Progress Show.
Machinery

Hydraulics on axle help farmer position auger

A Saskatchewan on-farm invention helps position large augers

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Gord Blechinger of Gord’s Horsepower Service in Muen­ster, Sask. was one of the farmyard inventors to pick up a Sterling Standard Innovation award at this year’s Canada’s Farm Progress Show in Regina. He won it for his Auger Side Shift, which was displayed in the farmyard inventions forum. Blechinger’s brainchild was born when he began […] Read more
Bourgault air seeders will now be delivered with a Topcon X35 monitor system, which includes a few new features.
Machinery

Digital upgrades from Bourgault

The brand moves up to a Topcon X35 in-cab monitor

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Buyers of Bourgault seeding equipment will now get an upgraded monitor system. A Topcon X35 system replaces the previous X30 the brand had been using. “This year the X35 replace the X30,” says Bourgault’s Rob Fagnou. “For the most part its very similar to the X30. The screen size is the same, but it has […] Read more
CN trains in Vancouver. (CN.ca)
Crops, Machinery

CN, CP roll over revenue caps for 2016-17

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Canada’s big two railways have both overshot the maximum revenue they’re allowed to keep for ferrying the 2016-17 grain crop off the Prairies. The Canadian Transportation Agency on Thursday issued its annual determination of how much, if any, revenue Canadian National Railway (CN) and Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) made over their maximum grain revenue entitlements […] Read more
The PPS, a two-row single-pass planter designed on a Manitoba farm is capable of handling a wide range of seed types. 

Machinery

A one-pass, hybrid planter-drill born on the farm

Manitoba farmers debut their do-it-all planter designed for Western Canada

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A look back at the origins of Western Canadian short-line ag equipment manufacturers would reveal one thing common to almost all of them: their founders were farmers making on-farm machine modifications or inventing new systems to achieve goals not possible with then-existing equipment. The new PPS single-pass planter on display at this year’s edition of […] Read more
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Crops, Machinery, Reuters

Railway CEO Hunter Harrison, 73

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New York | Reuters –– CSX Corp. CEO Hunter Harrison has died, the U.S. freight railway operator said on Saturday, just a few days after announcing that the veteran rail executive it hired earlier this year to boost its profits had taken a medical leave of absence. Harrison, 73, died “due to unexpectedly severe complications […] Read more
Missing equipment found on a rural property southwest of Saskatoon in 2016 was valued at over $1.2 million. (Photo courtesy Saskatoon RCMP)
Beef Cattle, Livestock, Machinery

No prison for Saskatchewan rancher over stolen farm equipment

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A western Saskatchewan rancher who pleaded guilty in August to charges over the discovery last year of missing tractors, balers and other farm equipment will serve time outside the prison system, Saskatoon media reported Friday. Iain Stables, now 40, was sentenced Friday in Provincial Court in Saskatoon to a conditional term of two years less […] Read more
The Ceus can be equipped with a twin row of dish-shaped rollers that, according to the company, can cope well with stony fields.
Machinery

New ‘Ceus’ tillage tool from Amazone

High-speed Ceus 60002TX Super debuts at field day

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This fall, marketing reps from Amazone were taking the brand’s new Ceus 6000 2TX Super high-speed tillage tool on a demonstration tour across parts of Canada. At about the same time, during an international field day in Germany in September, the brand included the Ceus in its parade of new products and demonstrated what it […] Read more
MacDon opened a new parts distribution centre in Winnipeg in 2016. (Macdon.com)
Corn, Crops, Forages, Machinery

Harvestec owner Linamar set to buy MacDon

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Canadian harvesting equipment company MacDon is set to join the ag arm of industrial equipment and parts manufacturer Linamar. Guelph-based Linamar Corp., which markets the Harvestec brand of corn harvesting headers in North America, on Thursday announced a “definitive” agreement to buy 100 per cent of Winnipeg-based MacDon and its group of companies for $1.2 […] Read more
Understanding some key points and taking some precautions can help you get oversized loads from the farmyard to the field and back again.
Machinery, Wheat & Chaff

Safely transport oversize loads

Farm safety: Tips to get your equipment to the field and back again

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With larger farm equipment comes larger transportation challenges. Equipment wider than highway lanes poses a hazard to not only the equipment operator, but also to other motor vehicle operators. Tall equipment can come into contact with low-hanging wires, bridges and other vital pieces of infrastructure. Collisions with other vehicles is a major concern while transporting […] Read more
AGCO’s new C Series RoGators debuted last August and offer a host of upgrades over previous models.
Machinery

AGCO reinvents the RoGator

The C Series offers improved driveline and product delivery technology

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AGCO thinks anyone looking to spend less of their day cleaning and maintaining sprayers and more time rolling through fields applying product will like their new C Series RoGators. Equipped with the brand’s new LiquidLogic system, these machines promise more efficient cleanouts with less wasted product and more precise application in the field. “With the […] Read more

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