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It didn’t take much disturbance to raise the dust during a tillage demonstration at the 2018 Ag In Motion farm show.
Columns, Hart Attacks

Well here is a game changing concept

Profitable crop production with little or no added inputs. Is someone talking nonsense?

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Talk about an interesting contrast in messages! In one week during my summer travels I attended a first-in-Canada Soil Health School in Manning (Alberta Peace River region) and a few days later I was eating dust at a tillage demonstration at the Ag In Motion farm show at Langham, Sask. My old brain had to […] Read more
Summers Manufacturing calls its VRT2530 a “variable rate” tillage tool.
Machinery

Summers offers ‘variable tillage’ tool

On-the-go changes allow for more or 
less aggressive residue incorporation

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2018 marks the third year of production for North Dakota-based Summers Manufacturing’s VRT2530 “variable” tillage tool, which was designed to offer producers an implement that can offer differing styles of tillage from the same implement — and change on the go. The VRT2530 uses a row of dual-mounted disc blades at the front. These blades are slightly concave, […] Read more
Double SteelRunner rear soil reconsolidation packers are one more choice for buyers.
Machinery

New packer option for Carrier

Väderstad adds another feature to the options list for its tillage implements

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Väderstad’s Carrier L and XL disc tillage implements get one more feature added to their options lists for 2018. The Double SteelRunner rear soil reconsolidation packers are one more choice buyers get when spec’ing out a new Carrier. “Double SteelRunner, which creates a very effective reconsolidation and clod breaking, is a very interesting complement to […] Read more
Horsch’s new Agro Innovation Center is located at Downs, Illinois.
Machinery, News

Horsch opens North American research centre

The equipment brand aims to look at all areas of crop production technology

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The German tillage and seeding equipment brand Horsch has had a presence that includes manufacturing facilities in North America for some time. And now it’s opening a crop production research centre, adding to the list of other such facilities it operates around the world. The new Agro Innovation Center is located at Downs, Illinois, and […] Read more
Lemken displayed some new features for its Heliodor 9 compact disc at the last Agritechnica. Some options are already planned for production while others will see limited release or were shown to get customer feedback.
Machinery

Lemken adds new implement features

The brand debuts new production options 
and looks for farmer feedback on others

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Grainews met up with Lemken’s Canadian sales manager, Laurent Letzter, at the brand’s display during the Agritechnica machinery show in Germany in November. Lemken was using that event to solicit feedback from farmers on a couple of new prototype features it had recently developed for its line of compact discs, and it was introducing others […] Read more
Väderstad widens its planter line
Machinery

Väderstad widens its planter line

Tempo L series now includes 
an 18-row version

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Väderstad has been increased the working widths of its Tempo L planter line to accommodate North American market demand. Now, it has added to the 12- and 16-row units currently available with the new Tempo L 18, 18-row model, which begins production in June. It can be configured to row spacing as narrow as 20 […] Read more
The new Fury high-speed implement from Versatile joins the vertical tillage Viking in the brand’s implement line.
Machinery

New Fury high-speed tillage implement

Versatile’s new high-speed disc implement will be available this spring

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The new Fury high-speed implement from Versatile joins the vertical tillage Viking in the brand’s implement line. The company debuted the Fury at the Manitoba Ag Days show in Brandon in January. “A lot guys don’t want to run 4.5 or five miles per hour like a traditional tandem disc does,” explains Trevor Jubinville, Versatile’s […] Read more
Kinze will now offer its own high-speed tillage line, with the first deliveries scheduled for the fall of 2018.
Machinery

Kinze adds Mach Till to its implement line

Three types of equipment will be available in the fall of 2018

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Williamsburg, Iowa, based Kinze has long been known for its grain carts and planters. This year the brand is growing its product portfolio by adding the Mach Till high-speed tillage implement line. “Farmers will now be able to obtain three types of equipment from their Kinze dealer, all with the same standard of quality,” said […] Read more
There’s a perception in the farming community that soil erosion and degradation are in the past, but that simply isn't the case.
Crops, Features, Soybeans

Don’t forget lessons of the Dirty 30s

Although there’s a perception that dust is past, tillage erosion is on the rise in Manitoba

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It seemed like the beginning of the end of the world: friends and neighbours dying of “dust pneumonia” and massive dust storms sweeping the land. These are some of the recollections of people who were alive in the “Dirty 30s,” recorded for an oral history project by Daryl Ritchison, interim director of the North Dakota […] Read more
The best time to deal with a weed such as kochia is when it's small.
Features, Pulses

In-crop mechanical weed control

Controlling weeds mechanically can help overcome Group 2 resistant weeds in pulses

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Group 2 resistant weeds are an annual problem for lentil producers. But there are a few outside-the-box methods that may give farmers better control than herbicide alone. University of Saskatchewan grad student Alex Alba led a study looking at three in-crop mechanical weed control methods, including: Tine harrows; Rotary hoe; and, Inter-row tillage. Alba used […] Read more

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