Ideal tractor testament to the golden age of manufacturing

These days, social media, software and other digitally focused companies occupy the apex of innovation. But a century ago, many of the brightest and most creative young minds were drawn to manufacturing. Consider the Goold, Shapley and Muir “Ideal” tractor shown in the accompanying photograph. Headquartered in Brantford, Ont., but with branches in Winnipeg, Regina

Farm accident claims farm leader

Former Manitoba Beef Producers president Major Jay Fox died Dec. 23 after being pinned beneath a tractor’s front-end loader bucket on his farm near Eddystone. Fox, 32, retired last month as a director of MBP, having served since 2009 as the organization’s president and previously as a vice-president. Fox and his wife Angela are well


Online Services Come To The Farm

NEWS STAFF / Manitoba farmers will soon be able to use an online service-delivery system to register for programs or apply for services offered by Manitoba Agriculture Food and Rural Initiatives (MAFRI). The province has rolled out AccessManitoba, a new system meant to allow businesses, entrepreneurs and individuals to register for programs and submit online

Edsel Of Tractors Sells For A Record Price

RECORD HIGH BID By Lorraine Stevenson Co-operator staff International Harvester s M18-35 Titan tractor was a dud when it first hit the market in the early 1900s. But now it s worth as much as a brand new one. The rare vintage tractor restored by a MacGregor-area farmer has fetched what s believed to be


New Guide For Better Hitches

Farmers are adept at improvising, but that s not a good idea when hooking up old equipment to a new tractor. I sit on the Canadian Standards Association committee for agricultural machinery and this has been a theme at a number of our meetings, the incompatibility of older implements and newer tractors, said Jim Wassermann,

Crowds Watch Plowmen Compete

Co-operator Staff | alexander The horses are catching up to the tractors at least they were at this year s Manitoba Provincial Plowing Association s annual plowing match. Seven horse-drawn teams were featured in this year s event , and they joined an equal number of tractor entrants competing on a field owned by Jim


Old-Time Threshing Day

Frank and Linda Wilkinson welcomed everyone to their farm west of Onanole on September 10 for an old-time threshing day. With some help from friends and neighbours, the oat stooks were forked onto a wagon pulled by a team of Percheron horses, and then fed into the 1926 Advanced Rumely threshing machine. A 1953 W6

Arkansas Hay Farmers Offered $100 Per Bale

Cooler weather has arrived in Arkansas but a severe drought lingers, signalling bad news for the state s hay and cattle producers. The Climate Prediction Center recently issued a three-month outlook that showed drought persisting or worsening into eastern Arkansas, meaning that areas that were flooded in the spring now could face drought conditions. Cattle


Combine Adjustment Tips

Combining faster cuts harvesting costs, but can also result in higher grain loses, says Les Hill, manager of agricultural technical services at the Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute (PAMI) in Humboldt, Sask. We know it s all balance, Hill said Sept. 9 during a webinar for the Canola Council of Canada on maximizing canola harvesting. When

Manure Expo Showcases Management Advances

What’s your idea of a fun outdoor activity on a day with temperatures topping 35 C? How about a manure show? Norfolk, Nebraska, the hometown of the late U.S. television personality Johnny Carson, hosted the 2011 North American Manure Expo in the midst of the recent heat wave. The trade show was billed as the