A family-owned, single-store farm equipment dealership is increasingly rare. But the Sowa family at Wadena, Sask., say they have no plans to change thebusiness model.
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How a single-store family-owned ag equipment dealership prevails
Six decades on, Wheatbelt Sales’ current owners in eastern Saskatchewan talk about what it takes to remain viable in today’s machinery marketplace
Bourgault rolls out new drill, opener and upgrades to BiC system
BiC will be able to function via a tablet, sans tractor monitor
Bourgault in mid-January announced the release of three new products for its 2027 model year lineup: a new 50-foot drill, a new twin-shank opener and an upgraded BiC system.
Bourgault test-drives deep-banding phosphorus
At its test sites, the manufacturer is setting P deep down in soil to see if plants can access it throughout the season
At its home base in northeastern Saskatchewan, cultivator maker Bourgault is attempting to maximize yield by deep-banded phosphorus into typically untouched dirt.
Bourgault introduces drills up to 100 feet for 2026
Drills, digital controller and other features debut at Phoenix event
At a customer event and product launch in Phoenix in early November, Bourgault had several new products to show — but the event’s centrepiece was clearly the new 100-foot 7-Plex 3545 Paralink Hoe Drill displayed just outside the event centre. All the products featured had been under development for some time, including the new drills. […] Read more
VIDEO: Bourgault debuts ‘Wing Tank’ for air carts
To go along with its newest 7-Plex air drill introductions, Bourgault is debuting a larger canola tank for its air carts. The Wing Tank boosts capacity to 66 bushels with a conveyor loading feature. Curtis Hinrichsen discusses the features it offers.
VIDEO: Bourgault launches new digital seed control system
At its customer event in Phoenix, Arizona, in November, Bourgault introduced a new digital control system, BIC (Bourgault Intelligent Control), that will eventually become standard on all of its seed drills. Here, territory manager Jordan Henderson describes the new system’s features and how it works.
VIDEO: Bourgault launches 7-plex air drills
At an event in Phoenix, Arizona, Bourgault launched several new products and updates. Grainews was there. In this video, senior editor for machinery Scott Garvey takes a look at the centrepiece of the product launch, the new 7-Plex air drills now available in widths up to 100 feet.
Three opener types available from Bourgault
Brand offers drills with side-band and mid-row fertilizer banding technology
Bourgault showed its PLS, PLX and PLDS openers at its display on the grounds of the Ag in Motion farm show near Langham, Sask. in July. Like other popular brands, it’s best known for the the original opener design it went to market with several years ago. That was a single knife for seed placement […] Read more
VIDEO: Bourgault openers designed to fit your operation
This is the first video in a series that looks at the types of seed opener designs on display at this summer’s Ag in Motion farm show near Langham, Saskatchewan. This series will also look at the other new introductions those seeding equipment manufacturers were introducing at their booths. In this video, machinery editor Scott […] Read more
Zero till: how did it all happen?
Soils & Crops: In Saskatchewan, necessity was the mother of more than one invention
In March 1993 in Grainews there appeared a piece by a certain soils columnist titled “A Quiet Revolution in Crop Production.” It concluded that within the next two decades we’d see a revolution in the way we farmed. It came to pass much as predicted — but what made it happen was work in farm […] Read more
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