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Wanted: technicians who know how to operate a pitchfork

Volunteers sought for biggest-ever threshing bee in 2016

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 24, 2015

If you think the days of the threshing bee are long past, you’re mistaken. And if you know what a threshing bee is, the Manitoba Threshermen’s Reunion and Stampede and the Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB) may need your help. In August 2013 a group at Langenburg, Sask. set a world record by having 41 machines

vintage newspaper advertisement for farm equipment

Our History

White Farm Equipment was “here to stay”

Our History: March 1984

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 3, 2015

This advertisement from White Farm Equipment in our March 1, 1984 issue assured customers that despite three tough years of poor market conditions, the company was in it for the long term. White was originally formed from Oliver, Cockshutt and Minneapolis-Moline. Today White is an AGCO brand. Our front page that week had a photo

man standing beside hay-baling machinery

Crops, Forages

VIDEO: Quebec haymakers use homemade dryer to improve hay quality

The Normandins also modified a small hay baler to convert big square bales into small ones

By Allan Dawson December 8, 2014

David Normandin and his brother Mathieu preferred driving tractors to milking cows and that’s why they make hay and not milk. The brothers, along with their father Luc and Luc’s partner’s daughter, Audrey Mailloux, operate Norfoin Inc., 57 km southeast of Montreal in the Montérégie region of la belle province. The operation had been a

News

Moving equipment is a high-risk operation

There are many pitfalls that increase the chances of being in a serious accident

By Alberta Agriculture September 19, 2014

According to the Canadian Agricultural Injury Reporting (CAIR) program, 13 per cent of farm-related fatalities across Canada are traffic related, and most involved tractors. During the busy fall harvest season, farmers often travel long distances between fields, and this requires transporting equipment on public roads throughout rural Alberta. Farm equipment is oversized and slow compared

Chris Dzisiak (second from left) helps run swathed grain into the threshing machine.

News

With harvest on hold, Dauphin farmers step into the past

The 16th annual Threshing Day harkens back to a time when everyone pitched in

By Meghan Mast September 10, 2014

Dauphin-area farmers found a soothing diversion from this year’s stressfully late and difficult harvest Aug. 30 — stepping back in time to when they could all pitch in. Usually on a Saturday at this time of year, Chris Dzisiak would be busily swathing canola and harvesting early wheat. But cloudy skies and soaking rains have

Crops, News

Planter adjustment key to getting corn off to a good start

Mother Nature can’t fix mistakes made by a poorly adjusted planter

By Daniel Winters April 2, 2014

There are few things more pleasing to the eye than perfectly spaced corn seedlings emerging in neat rows from rich black soil. But whether you’re a home gardener or a farmer with thousands of acres, the sight of missed spots and doubles crowded together leaves you with that aggravating, sinking feeling that your chances for

Crude protein drops as days get shorter.

Beef cattle, Livestock

Ottawa throws a wrench into pasture transfers— equipment can’t be ‘gifted’

By Daniel Winters November 14, 2013

A last-minute disinheritance of former PFRA pasture equipment has derailed the transition plan, but  officials say all pastures will be available next year

Confusion over the exact meaning of “divestiture” has thrown a wrench into what just a few months ago appeared to be a smooth transfer of Manitoba’s 10 community pastures from federal management to local associations. The steering committee of the Association of Manitoba Community Pastures (AMCP) had counted on inheriting the tractors, pickup trucks, ATVs,

Crops

Reduce the risk of a combine fire

Do a pre-harvest check, and carry a fire extinguisher

By NDSU Release August 20, 2013

With harvest season underway, it’s time to take precautions against combine fires, says John Nowatzki, North Dakota State University Extension Service agricultural machine systems specialist. Crop residue buildup around combine engines and exhaust pipes are obvious places where fires can start. The surface temperature of exhaust pipes can be high enough to ignite straw and

The museum’s Model 20 combine in storage. As can be seen, the engine was placed on the right side of the machine where it was very accessible though exposed to the elements. For 1938 the machine offered the ultimate in operator comfort, a sunshade over the operator’s position. Photo: Manitoba Agricultural Museum

Crops, Did you know?, Our History

A game changer in grain farming

Australian engineer Tom Carroll was convinced that self-propelled combines were the way of the future

By Manitoba Agricultural Museum June 12, 2013

What was designed by an Australian, built in Ontario, field tested in Argentina, revolutionized grain farming, and — 75 years ago — was sold to a Rapid City farmer? Full points if you guessed the first commercially successful self-propelled combine, and bonus ones if you knew it was the Massey Harris Model 20 purchased by

Crops

Multi-tasking tractor was also a truck. It could power your sawmill too

By Manitoba Agricultural Museum April 9, 2013

The Avery 12-horsepower tractor was nothing if not versatile. The combination truck/tractor could carry 3,000 pounds in truck mode, and pull a three-bottom plow in the field. When fitted with a belt pulley on its front, it could power a 22-inch cylinder threshing machine, a circular saw, or water pump. But with a price tag

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures turn lower

U.S. grains: Soy futures dip as traders await China sales; corn, wheat sag

Seeds Canada announces Dan Wright as new CEO

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