Reading Time: 2 minutes A major Prairie ethanol and fuel producer is posed to spend just over half a billion dollars on a system to capture and sequester carbon dioxide from its operations in Saskatchewan. Federated Co-operatives announced Thursday it had signed a memo of understanding with Calgary-based ‘clean energy’ company Whitecap Resources, in which the latter company will […] Read more
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![Raven’s OmniDrive is a real-life autonomous system for tractors and combines. It’s programmed to automatically pick up the combine at optimal points in the field and shuttle the load to the road. All this without a driver.]()
First truly autonomous grain cart tractor is here and put to a farmers’ test
Glacier FarmMedia – The first Canadian OmniDrive field demo took place Sept. 8 when a group of about 50 farmers…
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![In Case IH research, tillage prescriptions based on soil type and conditions contributed to more efficient fuel economy and use compared with constant-depth tillage.]()
Precision prescriptions used to remedy tillage issues
Glacier FarmMedia – Farmers are accustomed to using prescription maps for fertilizer and crop protection products. Now, they can use…
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![The John Deere 800R Floater is equipped with the same cab that’s used in the company’s sprayers and 8R tractors. It comes with a standard hydraulic pump that powers the New Leader dry-bins and Hagie liquid applicators, which makes it easier to switch between units.]()
Float material onto the fields wet or dry
Glacier FarmMedia – John Deere has a new floater that makes it easier to switch between dry and liquid application…
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![Fendt was once a brand best known as a premium product line in Europe, but with the addition of the Ideal combine and the new Momentum planter, along with the high-horsepower, fixed frame tractors, it is expanding in North America.]()
AGCO: More green, and black, machinery coming
Glacier FarmMedia – As chair of the board, chief executive officer and president of AGCO, Eric Hansotia knows a few…
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XT grain carts up ante to 600 bushels per minute
Glacier FarmMedia – It’s been one year since Brandt introduced its line of XT series grain carts. Reaction has been…
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Crop Stop to showcase new production technology
Crop Stop will feature the latest in technology, with special programming featuring equipment, software and research. Presented by Canada’s Outdoor…
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Co-op to capture carbon at ethanol plant, refinery
FCL, Whitecap sign agreement to sequester fuel plants' CO2
Aerospace know-how focused on planting
System delivers corn seed tip-first into the row to capture more yield potential and improve weed control
Reading Time: 3 minutes Glacier FarmMedia – Keith Strang and Mitch Dille had just finished a project in the aerospace industry and were thinking about starting their own company but they needed a problem to solve. Dille, also a farmer, discovered one at a local trade show. A world-record corn grower mentioned the need for a system capable of […] Read more
Robo-coop automates the work of pasturing poultry and pigs
Ukko Robotics’ Rova Barn is self-moving and programmable
Reading Time: 3 minutes Glacier FarmMedia – One could say the origin story of the robotic Rova Barn began with a young kid on a dairy farm who wanted to go to the beach, or on a family road trip, or just to Grandma’s for Sunday dinner. But milking chores had to trump adventure. “We didn’t go on holidays […] Read more
Canada’s “right to repair” bill explained
Bryan May, MP for Cambridge, answers questions – what the bill seeks to address, and why he believes it’s important
Reading Time: 4 minutes A private member’s bill to allow Canadians more right to repair devices, including farm equipment, will be resurrected after it died when Parliament was prorogued for the recent election. Bill C-272 proposed to update Canada’s Copyright Act to allow Canadians more freedom to repair digital devices, including smartphones and farm equipment. Bryan May, Member of […] Read more
White House not ruling out a U.S. carbon tax
Option 'not off the table' despite Manchin comment
Reading Time: 3 minutes Washington | Reuters –– The White House on Tuesday said it has not ruled out a carbon tax as a possible option for fighting climate change, even though U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, a critical holdout in the closely divided Senate, said he was not discussing the topic in talks about U.S. spending and infrastructure bills. […] Read more
First truly autonomous grain cart tractor is here and put to a farmers’ test
Raven puts its latest technology into OmniDrive
Reading Time: 3 minutes Glacier FarmMedia – The first Canadian OmniDrive field demo took place Sept. 8 when a group of about 50 farmers got together at Haggerty Creek Agricultural Services, the Raven dealer near Bothwell, Ont. Haggerty Creek co-owner Chuck Baresich admitted that his initial grain cart encounters while driving the combine were weird. “The first thing I […] Read more
No evidence trains sparked Lytton fire, TSB says
Transportation Safety Board now stepping out of ongoing fire probe
Reading Time: 3 minutes There’s no proof the fire that largely destroyed a British Columbia village, damaged a key rail bridge and led to cuts in rail speed limits in high-risk areas was sparked by train traffic, the federal Transportation Safety Board says. The TSB on Thursday said its investigation, launched in early July, “has not revealed any evidence […] Read more
Deere’s U.S. workers on strike after rejecting deal
Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — Thousands of Deere and Co. workers began a strike on Thursday, the United Auto Workers (UAW) said, days after overwhelmingly rejecting a six-year labour contract that was agreed on with the tractor maker. Earlier this month, the world’s largest farm equipment maker and the UAW union reached an agreement after weeks of negotiation […] Read more
Canada concerned about supply chain issues, watching ports ‘closely’
Reading Time: < 1 minute Reuters –– Canada is concerned about the challenges facing global supply chains and is watching the country’s ports very closely, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Thursday. Freeland, speaking to reporters in Washington after meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, said she was broadly optimistic about the strength of Canada’s economic recovery […] Read more
CNH to temporarily shut several plants in Europe
Eight-day shutdown due to supply disruptions
Reading Time: < 1 minute Reuters — Italian-American vehicle maker CNH Industrial said Wednesday it will temporarily shut several of its European agricultural, commercial vehicle and powertrain manufacturing facilities due to the disruptions of procurement of components, including semiconductors. The maker of farm machinery, Iveco commercial vehicles, construction equipment and powertrains plans to shut the concerned plants for eight working […] Read more
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