Farmers can now choose between multiple track and tire technologies that help reduce the compaction risks around supersized grain carts.

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.

Unverferth has released its 2520 grain cart, which has a 2,500-bushel capacity.

New 2,500-bushel grain cart from Unverferth

The new unit offers more capacity and sophisticated data gathering via new digital features

Unverferth has just introduced the new model 2520 grain cart, which pushes at the upper capacity limits of its cart line with a 2,500-bushel load rating. It’s the biggest cart the brand has ever built. Getting grain out of the cart won’t take more than about two and a half minutes with the cart’s pivoting […] Read more


An 8820 John Deere combine blended with a Brent grain cart was a winter project on the Belan farm in southwestern Ontario.

Creating the Combuggy

How a farmer modified an 8820 combine into a self-propelled grain cart

There have been some pretty interesting machines built in farm workshops over the years. While only the odd one goes on to be marketed commercially, most usually meet a need on the farm. For Mike Belan and his family’s farming operation about 40 minutes southeast of Sarnia, Ont., a workshop creation dubbed the Combuggy has […] Read more

Brandt’s new DXT series grain carts are available in four models
from 1,150-bushel to 2,500-bushel capacities.

New grain cart from Brandt

DXT series offers left- or right-side unload auger

For the second time this year, Brandt has added a new product to its product line — the DXT series grain cart line. These dual-auger models offer a choice of either a left- or right-side unloading auger. No matter which side you prefer to fill trucks on, the DXT carts can do it quickly. “We […] Read more