A pair of Saskatchewan inventors has won a trip to the world’s largest indoor farm machinery show.
In an inventors’ contest this summer sponsored by Country Guide, Grainews and the German trade show Agritechnica, Ken Hudacek and Duane Bartok of Esterhazy, Sask. were chosen by a panel of judges including Grainews staff and contributing machinery writers.
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Agritechnica, to be held Nov. 10-14 at the Exhibition Grounds at Hanover, Germany, is billed as the world’s largest exhibition for agricultural machinery and equipment, including over 2,200 exhibitors housed in 18 exhibition halls.
The show, organized by the Frankfurt-based German agricultural society DLG (Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft), hosts exhibitors from about four dozen countries including Canada, and admits over 300,000 visitors per year.
Hudacek and Bartok, who will travel to Germany accompanied by Bartok’s wife Cindy, were selected by the judges for their development of a universal haybine reverser, which allows a farmer to reverse the flow of oil to a haybine by flipping a switch in the tractor cab.
According to their QVB Enterprises’ website, the reverser can “take the grunt work out of unplugging your haybine.”
“Once your machine is plugged, you simply shut it off, flip the switch from inside the cab, start it up, and the whole machine reverses.”
