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Key players at the news conference announcing the new company to deliver BIXS include (from left) Larry Thomas, national co-ordinator of BIXS; Rob McNabb, general manager of the Canadian Cattleman’s Association; Hubert Lau of ViewTrak, CEO of the new company; and Ted Power, president of ViewTrak. (Lee Hart photo)
Livestock, Machinery, Markets

New company set up to deliver BIXS livestock data system

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A new company — a partnership between the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) and livestock technology company ViewTrak — plans to bring the newborn unsteadiness of an information exchange network to a full gallop for all Canadian livestock sectors. The as-yet unnamed private company was formed to bring the CCA’s beef information exchange system, BIXS, to […] Read more
Equipment such as this offal blow tank at Quebec’s Levinoff-Colbex plant was sold to buyers onsite and online on Dec. 2. (BidSpotter.com)
Beef Cattle, Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Machinery, Markets

Shuttered Que. beef plant’s equipment sold

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The chance of a rescue for Quebec’s Levinoff-Colbex cull cow packing plant has passed, now that the facility’s equipment has been sold off piecemeal at auction. Provincial investment financing agency Investissement Quebec and other creditors still own the Colbex building and land at St-Cyrille-de-Wendover, in the Centre-du-Quebec region. But the plant’s receivers sold its equipment to a consortium of […] Read more
The Kinze multi-hybrid prototype planter
Crops, Machinery

Kinze’s multi-hybrid concept planter

This machine can alternate between two different seed hybrids based on information from prescription maps

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Kinze has announced it is working on a prototype planter that will allow producers to load two different seed hybrids and switch back and forth between them while on the go. When making a field pass, the planter’s controller uses information from a prescription map to select and meter out the appropriate hybrid seeds where […] Read more
tractor and grain cart in a field
Machinery

Kinze develops its Autonomous Tractor Project

The driverless grain cart tractor concept takes another step closer to commercialization

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In 2011 Kinze, a company best known for building planters and grain carts, surprised many industry observers by announcing it had taken a plunge into the high-tech world of robotics with its Autonomous Tractor Project. It partnered with Jaybridge Robotics of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to develop an automated system to control tractors that pull grain carts […] Read more
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Crops, Machinery, Markets

Grain freight minimums beneficial, but not seen as best solution

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CNS Canada –– The Canadian government’s decision to extend its order-in-council requiring a minimum tonnage of grain shipped by the two major railways each week will benefit the ag industry — but it’s not the best solution out there, according to some participants. “Extending the minimum volume requirements through the coming winter and spring season […] Read more
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Crops, Machinery, Weather

Mandatory minimum grain handle extended

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A new order-in-council will extend the federal government’s mandatory minimum weekly grain handle for Canada’s big two railways through March, just as the previous order expires. Federal Transport Minister Lisa Raitt and Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz on Saturday announced the mandatory minimums, which expired Saturday, are extended until March 28, 2015. The new order, however, adjusts the […] Read more
machinery display at a farm equipment show
Machinery

In the field with SeedMaster’s new corn meter

Grainews was at SeedMaster’s research farm to look at the company’s new air drill corn seeding capability

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The expansion of corn production into non-traditional growing regions has been one of the hottest topics of conversation in prairie agriculture for some time now. But for many producers, the cost of purchasing additional equipment to grow that crop has been one of the reasons they haven’t yet tried it. Air drill manufacturer SeedMaster believes […] Read more
SeedMaster tow-between cart
Machinery

SeedMaster introduces tow-between grain cart

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At Canada’s Farm Progress Show in Regina, Seed-Master pulled the wraps off the first tow-between model in its Nova XP Smart Cart Series. The brand claims the new model comes with all the same “smart” technology available in the Nova tow-behind models. With two 260-bushel main compartments and a third 110-bushel tank, the cart has […] Read more
man holding a piece of farm equipment
Machinery

Morris introduces plastic seed opener on C2 drill shank

A new C2 Contour drill opener and shank design along with a double-shoot option on the Razr took the spotlight at the company’s display during this year’s CFPS in Regina

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Once again, Morris Industries had new features on display this year at Canada’s Farm Progress Show to entice visitors into its display. But seeing a plastic seed opener on the updated C2 Contour drill shank might have been an unexpected sight for many of those who stopped by. The injected polymer material on Morris’ new […] Read more

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