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Threshing at the Black family farm, near Brandon, sometime around the First World War.
Country Crossroads, Local news

Threshing from the stack

Each photograph from pioneer days is a window into a world gone by

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Sometimes it’s amazing the amount of details you can spot in old photographs. In the fall of 2014, Bruce Black of the Brandon area let the Manitoba Agricultural Museum copy negatives of historic photographs taken on his family’s farm in the Brandon area. The museum was able to digitize the images taken from the negatives.
Along with a number of information sessions, Manitoba Hay Day held an equipment 
demo with various makes of central pivot disc mowers and balers.
Forages, Livestock

A nice day to make hay

Manitoba Hay Day provided attendees with details on cutting time, 
equipment tips, baling recommendations and an on-site equipment demo

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Hay Day has a new home. The annual Manitoba Agriculture event was held for the first time at the Manitoba Beef and Forage Initiative’s (MFBI) Brookdale site after two years in participating farmers’ fields. It attracted more than 100 producers seeking information on how to produce top-quality hay every season and featured extension specialists from
‘Bale as you combine,’ and the Virden Auction mart opens
Our History

‘Bale as you combine,’ and the Virden Auction mart opens

Our History: June 1961

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The Welger combine-attached balers advertised in our June 1, 1961 issue were “proven under Canadian conditions” and would “fit most self-propelled combines and are making extra money for hundreds of enthusiastic growers.” The bales could go to the Stramit strawboard factory in former air force hangars in Carberry, which had its official opening the previous
Helmut Neufeld, a longtime volunteer at the Manitoba Agricultural Museum at Austin, has been hard at work restoring threshing 
machines in preparation for the July 31 Harvesting Hope event.
Country Crossroads, Local news

Everyone’s pitching in to help pitch at Threshermen’s Reunion

Organizers expect more that 125 threshing machines to be on hand for the world-record event

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The pioneer harvest to be staged at the 2016 Manitoba Threshermen’s Reunion and Stampede in Austin next month won’t just be the largest in this organization’s 62-year history. It will be the grandest display of operating threshing machines the world has ever seen, and that’s no publicity pitch. Harvesting Hope: A World Record to Help
Five surgeons quit Bailey Kemery’s life-saving surgery because the injuries were so severe they thought her death was a foregone conclusion.
News

Farm accident survivor still drawn to the farm

Farm Safety: Her heart stopped twice on the way to hospital, multiple surgeons quit surgery assuming she wouldn’t survive

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Bailey Kemery was four years old, growing up on her family’s farm in Major, Sask., when her life changed forever. On April 20, 1994, she and her brother were playing on a tractor-driven rotary tiller parked, but running, not far from where her parents were standing in the yard. “The rototiller shook itself into gear,
Danny Mann, professor and head of the department of biosystems engineering at University of Manitoba stands on the mock-up staircase built at the university so researchers could compare access paths on farm equipment, including the steps, angles and spacing and how different designs impacted knee joints of users.
Local news

Safety by design

Farmer feedback builds safer equipment

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A guy walks into a tool department with his thumb bandaged, complaining about his new hammer. It keeps hitting two inches to the left. That’s actually not a joke. As any carpenter will tell you, you can hammer all day with a good hammer that’s the right fit for your hand, but if you use
Matthew Reimer, president of Reimer Robotics and Killarney-area farmer, took first place at Ag Days’ 2016 Inventors’ Showcase for a product allowing farmers to turn their existing tractor into a robot.
Crops, Local news

Tractor turned robot maximizes farm labour, says inventor

First prize at Ag Days 2016 Inventors’ Showcase goes to a Killarney-area farmer 
for his robotics invention that eliminates need for a grain cart driver

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At first glance, it looks like one of Matthew Reimer’s farm crew is, well, kind of short. Actually, there is no one driving that grain cart tractor as it navigates the field and pulls up to unload the combine on his Killarney-area farm. Reimer has programmed it to be driverless. Reimer was awarded first place
Matthew Reimer, president of Reimer Robotics and first prize winner in the Inventors' Showcase at Manitoba Ag Days.
Local news

VIDEO: Driverless tractors and open-source software

Reimer Robotics takes first prize in Manitoba Ag Days Inventors' Showcase

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Matthew Reimer was as surprised as anyone today when he was awarded first prize for his driverless tractor system at Manitoba Ag Days in Brandon, but his invention is worthy of the title. The Inventors’ Showcase winner, and president of Reimer Robotics, has built a system to move tractors – driverless no less, with grain cart
Lisa Roy and Erron Leafloor fork stooked wheat into a 1952 McCormick Deering threshing machine at the Red River Exhibition fairgrounds Aug. 18, part of a sneak preview of Harvesting Hope, scheduled for July 31 next year at Austin.
Crops, Local news

Goal set for threshing record bid

An event in Austin next July seeks at least 125 machines

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Organizers of a world-record-scale charity threshing bee, to be held next summer at Austin, hope to have at least 125 threshing teams on hand for the win. Harvesting Hope, scheduled for July 31, 2016 at the Manitoba Threshermen’s Reunion, has announced its goal of having 125 antique threshing machines running simultaneously to harvest a field

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