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Salford's Row Crop Precision Cultivator has camera guidance and hydraulic down pressure and section control. Photo: Salford
Machinery

Salford wins two AE50 engineering awards

Precision row crop cultivator and big-boom fertilizer applicator were both released in 2024

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The Salford Group won two AE50 awards for a new precision cultivator and a high capacity boom fertilizer applicator. The AE50 awards are from the American Society of Agricultural and Biochemical Engineers (ASABE). The awards recognize 50 innovations in agriculture, food and biological systems and will be presented Feb. 11 just before the National Farm […] Read more
(LtoR) Brad Baker, Salford VP of sales; Geof Gray, Salford president; Linda Hasenfratz, Linamar CEO, and Jim Jarrell, Linamar COO.
Machinery, News

Linamar deal to acquire Salford closes

Purchase will help the tillage equipment manufacturer grow globally

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Linamar’s purchase of the Salford Group has been finalized. Linamar, a Guelph-based industrial equipment and parts maker made the announcement June 3, and executives met with Salford Group staff and management five days later to tour the fertilizer application and tillage maker’s manufacturing plant in Salford.  Linamar initially announced it had an agreement in place […] Read more
File photo of a Salford 5200 Enforcer tillage unit operating in corn stubble. (Salford.com)
Crops, Machinery

MacDon owner Linamar to buy Salford

Linamar to pay $260M for Ontario tillage, fertilizer equipment maker

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Canadian industrial equipment and parts maker Linamar, the owner of MacDon Industries, is set to further expand its reach in the ag equipment sector by buying the Salford Group. Guelph-based Linamar announced Wednesday it has an agreement in place worth $260 million to buy 100 per cent of the equity in Salford, which makes fertilizer […] Read more
The Halo VRT uses a unique hybrid disc blade design.
Machinery

Salford adds VRT to its Halo high-speed disc line

New model offers on-the-go disc angle adjustability

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Glacier FarmMedia – Salford has added a new model to the Halo line of high-speed disc implements it debuted in 2020, the VRT (variable-rate tillage).  This tillage tool is capable of on-the-go changes to disc angles to vary how aggressively it engages the soil. Those changes can be made multiple times in a field right […] Read more
Halo AerWay is available in 20, 25 and 30-foot sizes now, and 35 and 40-foot machines in 2021.
Machinery

Salford puts on a Halo and tills like the devil

Tillage tools come in many forms, but the new high-speed disc with AerWay tool onboard puts a bite on the field

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Glacier FarmMedia – Salford recently launched a new tillage frame called the Halo that can be fit with different combinations of ground engagement tools. Two models are available. The Halo high speed disc (HSD) comes in five sizes from 20 to 40 feet wide, and the Halo AerWay is available in 20, 25 and 30-foot […] Read more
The Salford Group’s BBI Sniper dry fertilizer spreader has section control, with 120 foot spread.
Machinery

Spinner spreaders get new swath control technology

The Salford Group BBI Sniper spreader can adjust on the fly to precisely apply fertilizer

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The Salford Group has launched a new spinner spreader, called the Sniper, that enables farmers to control sections of spread for increasing accuracy, less overlap and less environmental impact. The spreader spreads 120 feet. The challenge designing the spreader was the lower quality and consistency of fertilizer in North America, said Anson Boak, Salford’s marketing […] Read more
(AerWay.com)
Crops, Machinery

Salford buys tillage equipment maker AerWay

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Southwestern Ontario vertical tillage and pasture equipment maker AerWay has become part of another well-known Ontario ag equipment manufacturer. Salford Group announced in December it has bought the AerWay advanced aeration products line from the Canadian trailer systems arm of German truck, bus and trailer axle and suspension manufacturer SAF-Holland. AerWay, which operates a manufacturing […] Read more
(Valmar.com)
Crops, Machinery

Salford to buy applicator maker Valmar

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Prairie manufacturing firm Valmar Airflo, known for its farm-, commercial- and research-grade granular applicator systems, is under new ownership. Valmar, set up in 1977 at Elie, Man. by farm mechanic, crop duster and inventor Charlie Balmer, has been sold to Ontario seeding and tillage equipment firm Salford Group for an undisclosed sum. Valmar will continue […] Read more
(BBI Spreaders via YouTube)
Crops, Machinery

Salford buys U.S. spreader manufacturer

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Ontario seeding, tillage and application equipment maker Salford Group is taking a share of the spreader market by buying U.S. manufacturer BBI Spreaders. Salford announced last week it had closed a deal effective Oct. 2 to buy the company, based at Cornelia, Georgia, about 70 km north of Athens. Financial terms of the deal weren’t […] Read more

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