Grainews’ Lisa Guenther tries her hand setting a record for fitting bin bolts in Westeel’s competition.
Videos
Westeel’s display at Canada’s Farm Progress Show lets visitors test their bin building skills
VIDEO: Keeping cattle healthy on pasture
Grainews reporter Lisa Guenther gets a few tips from Dr. Miles Johnson
As beef producers move their herds onto pasture this summer, there are practical ways to keep calves and cows healthy. Grainews reporter Lisa Guenther caught up with Dr. Miles Johnson, a veterinarian based in Turtleford, Sask, for tips on everything from pasture pneumonia to pink eye. Johnson is an experienced vet and a sitting member […] Read more
VIDEO: Women in Ag Conference: Pt. 2
Grainews field editor interviews venture capitalist Courtenay Wolfe
While we’ve all heard that networking is good for our careers, it can feel like an awkward chore. Venture capitalist Courtenay Wolfe shared her networking secrets at the Advancing Women West conference in Calgary. Reporter Lisa Guenther caught up with her to find out why effective networking looks more like socializing than selling, and why we shouldn’t let […] Read more
VIDEO: Women in Ag Conference: Pt. 1
Grainews field editor interviews Gwen Paddock of RBC
When it comes to investing and financial planning, it’s important for women to be proactive. That was the message from Gwen Paddock, RBC Royal Bank’s national manager of agriculture and agri-business. Reporter Lisa Guenther caught up with Gwen at the Advancing Women West conference in Calgary to learn more.
Using an air stream to clean grain
Grainews reporter Lisa Guenther caught up with Howard Benson, a Saskatchewan farmer, to learn about a different take on grain cleaning. Benson represents Grain Cleaning Systems Inc, a company based in Minnesota. These grain cleaners don’t use screens to separate seed. Instead, a fan creates an air stream that sorts grain from chaff based on […] Read more
VIDEO: The many definitions of bread
Bread is on one hand one of the world’s most common foods, but on the other hand one of the most varied. In this video, staff at the Canadian International Grains Institute (Cigi) talk about the different types of bread around the world, and how they work with customers to determine the best type of […] Read more
VIDEO: Blending more ‘superfood’ into the North American diet
It’s hardly an exaggeration to call pulses a ‘superfood’ — they’re high in protein and other nutrients, they’ve been proven to reduce bad cholesterol and they provide free nitrogen for the farmers who grow them. But while they’re a staple in diets in the Middle East, consumption is low in North America. In this video, […] Read more
Should your next loader tractor be a telehandler?
During a field demonstration in Savannah, Georgia, JCB product specialists explain what advantages that brand’s different telehandler models offer over a standard loader tractor when handling materials, like large round bales, on the farm.
Breaking field speed limits with JCB’s new Fastrac tractor
Grainews machinery editor Scott Garvey field tests JCB’s reengineered 4000 Series Fastrac tractor, which is now front-end loader ready from the factory.
VIDEO: The gluten story
If you’ve ever chewed a few kernels of wheat to make ‘gum,’ you’ve done a gluten test. Domestic and overseas wheat millers do a somewhat more sophisticated gluten test to determine how flour milled from different wheats will perform in a bakery. The gluten strength of different varieties has been in the news lately, and […] Read more
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