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Myron Krahn had record or near-record yields of corn and soybean with high quality on his farm near Carman, Manitoba.
Crops, Features

A goldilocks year, and few found it ‘just right’

Early winter, in the middle of harvest, definitely took its toll

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Here’s what you learn when you ask a sampling of western Canadian farmers how 2016 went and what’s ahead for the coming seeding season: Corn and soybeans did very well in 2016. Looking ahead, disease pressure on cereal and pulse crops could change the cropping landscape. An early spring would be a blessing considering there […] Read more
farm equipment seeding canola
Canola, Crops, Wheat & Chaff

How do you set a good seeding rate?

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Have a targeted plant population in mind for this season? Remember that several post-seeding stresses, including cool temperatures (frost), weeds, moisture and insects, might keep your plant stand from fully establishing. And while some of these issues, like weather, may be beyond your control, insect and disease pressure can be managed with the right seed […] Read more
On display during Canada’s Farm Progress Show in Regina, a mock up of the new meter design stands beside a computer CAD image that shows what a full-scale version will look like.

Machinery

SeedMaster updates the UltraPro meter

The UltraPro II on-frame meter is slated for production on 2017 model year drills

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Although SeedMaster’s Nova SmartCarts offer a typical bulk metering system using distribution towers to get product to drill openers, the brand’s president and founder Norbert Beaujot is a fan of Individual row metering when it comes to placing seed. Individual row metering significantly reduces the variability in product flow that occurs with bulk metering systems […] Read more
A pivot point in the opener arm allows the packer wheel to settle into the proper position in the seed trench, even when making turns in the field. 

Machinery

Furrow-finding packer tire

SeedMaster offers an optional pivoting opener arm

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Getting good seed-to-soil contact is critical in ensuring a high germination rate when seeding. On most air drills with independent row openers, the job of ensuring that contact happens falls to the trailing packer wheel. But there are some conditions which can cause a fixed packer wheel to run slightly off the seed row, such […] Read more
The model 3420 centre-folding TransFold drill design from Bourgault is now available in a smaller 80-foot working width.
Machinery

Bourgault offers smaller TransFold drill

An 80-foot, centre-folding model joins the 100-foot version introduced in 2015

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This is what we call the little brother to the 100-foot we released last year,” said Rob Fagnou, marketing specialist at Bourgault, as he stood beside the brand’s new 80-foot, centre-folding 3420 paralink hoe drill during Canada’s Farm Progress Show in June. “The demand for the 80-foot was strong with this type of folding system […] Read more
The Nova Flex fertilizer applicator mates to any Nova SmartCart and allows growers to apply granular fertilizer other than during seeding.
Machinery

Flex fertilizer applicator expands use of Nova carts

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With more and more farmers looking to apply fertilizer blends other than during seeding, spreader boxes and floaters are garnering more interest in the marketplace. But SeedMaster engineers think they have developed a product that allows producers to do that job without making another relatively large machinery investment. The brand introduced its Nova Flex applicator […] Read more
“Tuneable” distribution towers are a key feature made possible by adopting the new XeedSystem flow monitoring system.
Machinery

XeedSystem and “tuneable” towers improve distribution

New features even out product delivery on SeedMaster Nova cart bulk metering system

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Walking through the SeedMaster R&D shop, company president Norbert Beaujot stops beside a group of distribution towers that includes one of his company’s along with some competing models currently on the market. He explains the testing work company engineers have done on them to determine how well they distribute product to openers. “The thing we […] Read more
Norbert Beaujot, president of SeedMaster, explains a test procedure inside the company’s R&D shop.
Machinery

A look behind the scenes

Grainews was invited into the SeedMaster R&D shop

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The seeding equipment industry saw a flood of innovations come to market in recent years when farm commodity prices were hitting all-time highs. But this season, many brand exhibits at ag shows seemed pretty tame compared to what was on display two or three years ago. Some companies had a few new features to show, […] Read more
Some plants appeared to be further along than others, but these plants were contained within strips that ran in straight lines down the entire length of the field rather than in random patches.
Cereals, Crops

Crop Advisor’s Casebook: Inconsistent wheat development

A Crop Advisor's Solution from the February 24, 2015 issue of Grainews

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During the last week of August, I was crop scouting for Gerald, who farms 6,000 acres of wheat, barley, oats and canola just north of Wadena, Sask. I was recording the severity of fusarium head blight in one of Gerald’s wheat fields when I noticed something unusual. It was well into the growing season and […] Read more
Seed Hawk’s new metering system, the Fenix III, replaces the previous design that was introduced in 2014.
Machinery

Seed Hawk replaces its metering system

The new Fenix III meter addresses performance issues in the previous design

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Back in 2014 Saskatchewan-based Seed Hawk used the Canada’s Farm Progress Show in Regina to introduce an entirely new seed metering system for its air carts. Control of the then-new modular, meters beneath the cart tanks moved to a wireless system called iCon, away from the Raven controller the company had been using. That metering […] Read more

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