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“You really don’t do anything on this machine but steer it.”– Corey Dalman, Vermeer.
Equipment, Local news

Boots on the ground with Vermeer’s ZR5 baler

Digging into the finer details on the ZR5’s promises and capabilities

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Vermeer expects its modular design to be a selling point for the ZR5, both for ease of service and safety. The baling chamber is hydraulically connected to the power unit similar to a front-end loader. When disconnected, a switch in the cab lifts the baler from the power unit, allowing the farmer to drive away.
W.G. Dickson’s combine setup, pictured with sons Murray and Archie in 1943.
Country Crossroads, Other

Second World War-era photos show novel solution to labour shortage

Photos donated to the Manitoba Agricultural Museum show W.G. Dickson’s unique combine setup

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Photos recently donated to the Manitoba Agricultural Museum may show one farmer’s novel solution to labour shortages during the Second World War. The Dickson Henderson family of the Boissevain area donated several digital images to the museum. One photo shows a pull-type combine set up to allow remote operation of the tractor from the combine
Kerosene powered tractor
Country Crossroads, Other

Kerosene powered tractor

The Minneapolis Threshing Machine Company 25-50 tractor

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The Dickson-Henderson family of the Boissevain area donated to the Manitoba Agricultural Museum digital copies of photos taken on the farms operated by these families. One of the photos shows a “prairie style” tractor breaking sod in 1913. Prairie style is a term applied to early gas tractors, all of which were large, heavy and
Kubota’s current highest-horsepower line of tractors is the M7 line, manufactured in France.
Equipment, News, Other

The next made-in-Canada tractor

What will Buhler make for Kubota’s move into the heavy-horsepower market?

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Japan’s Kubota Corp. is poised to join Massey Harris, Cockshutt and Versatile on the short but distinguished list of farm tractors made in Canada. Buhler Industries, already well known as the manufacturer of Versatile tractors at its Clarence Avenue plant in Winnipeg, has opened its factory floor to also produce Kubota’s highest-horsepower tractor yet for
The McCrindle Sawyer Massey 25-45 gas tractor
Country Crossroads, Other

The McCrindle Sawyer Massey 25-45 gas tractor

This beautiful piece of machinery was donated to the museum by the original owner

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The Manitoba Agricultural Museum’s collection contains a Sawyer Massey 25-45 gas tractor, donated in 1960 by J.M. McCrindle of Foxwarren, Manitoba. James Marshall McCrindle was born in Nova Scotia in 1879 and later came to Winnipeg when his family moved there. McCrindle then moved to Foxwarren in 1897 to work as a clerk in Laycock’s
High-tech systems can make managing information during the busy seeding season easier and more informative.
Crops, Equipment

Crop planning the digital way

It may be time to ditch the old notebook in favour of a new way of doing business in the spring

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Producers of the past relied on written records, the Farmer’s Almanac and a good pair of workboots to check their fields as they planned their spring planting operations. Today’s producers can reach for the smartphone or tablet in their tractors to access a digital platform with all the information they need to make crop decisions
The heavy coulters seen here use their uneven profile to transmit forces sideways. Some say it breaks up soil compaction 
but local soil specialists aren’t so sure.
Crops, Equipment, Other

The vertical-tillage question defies pat answers

The controversial practice can serve a purpose, but won’t solve soil compaction

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Vertical tillage is a tricky term to grapple with. It’s less a method of tillage than it is a grouping of implements sold under that banner. It is marketed as a means to deal with soil compaction but in reality the implements marketed under that umbrella do little to address that problem. Yet, in certain
Brian Tischler’s autonomous tractor.
Crops, Equipment, Other

The future of autonomous agriculture is here. Should we embrace it?

The answer to that question boils down to liability, liability and more liability

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We have heard a lot in recent years about self-driving vehicles. Technology has arrived that makes the concept affordable and relatively simple. Alberta farmer, Brian Tischler spoke to an audience at the CropConnect conference in Winnipeg last month to provide insights into what that new tech means for farmers. Tischler is something of a hobbyist
While the exact time of the year this photo was taken is unknown, according to Seager Wheeler, if the backsetting process was to be done properly, the shallow first plowing should take place in May or early June
with the deeper second plowing taking place before early July. The timing of these operations should, in theory, result in sufficient soil moisture to rot the turned-down vegetation. While Seager Wheeler is advising
that the farmer needs to take care that the sod produced by the first plowing lays flat, this is a lot easier said than done. As can be seen here, the first plowing, which can be seen in the foreground of the photo, did not quite result in the sod laying flat. There are places visible where the vegetation being turned over was sufficiently tall enough that it prevented the sod from laying over completely as the vegetation when turning fell
onto the previously turned sod.
Country Crossroads, Other

Backsetting revisited

The ‘Wheat Wizard of Rosthern’ wrote about this pioneer practice in detail

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In 2018, the Manitoba Agricultural Museum wrote on the backsetting method of breaking virgin sod. A reader, Mr. Bollman, contacted us to inform the museum that there is more information on backsetting in the book Profitable Grain Growing, written in 1919 by Seager Wheeler, a noted agronomist and grain grower of the time, known as
An 1890’s Sawyer Massey threshing outfit
Country Crossroads, Other

An 1890’s Sawyer Massey threshing outfit

A photo of one of the earlier Manitoba threshing operations taken just years after the land was put to the plow

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Recently the Manitoba Agricultural Museum was the recipient of a collection of agricultural photos collected over the years. The donor of the photos wishes to remain anonymous at this time. Unfortunately the photographs had no further information with them. Many photos taken of pioneer agricultural activities have information written on the photos containing such information

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