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Agritechnica: The World’s Largest Farm Machinery Exhibition

By Scott Garvey December 3, 2009

This city, which calls itself the “city of international fairs,” is home to Agritechnica, the world’s largest farm machinery exhibition. The biannual show has seen its attendance rise incrementally to over 350,000 visitors per event since its inception in 1985. DLG, the German agricultural society that organizes the show, reports the number of exhibitors booking

News

Canadian Harrow Manages Heavy German Stubble

December 3, 2009

Prairie farm machinery manufacturers looking for markets outside North America have almost all turned their attention to eastern Europe. The climate there is very similar, making it a good match for the advanced dryland technology Prairie implements offer. For the most part, though, efforts to crack the western European market have been limited, mainly because

Country Crossroads

Tractors On A Mission

By Eden Foundation Release September 3, 2009

“We make smiles,” was the comment of one tractor driver in the second-annual Eden Foundation Tractor Trek on July 25. Forty tractors, 40 years and older, travelled 40 kilometres through six 130-year-old Mennonite villages in southern Manitoba, and all along the route, people lined up to see the parade of antique tractors. After a breakfast

News

Hit And Miss A Hit At Thresherman’s Reunion

By Daniel Winters August 6, 2009

If your tractor sounded like this, you’d be bracing yourself for a major repair bill. With disturbing irregularity, the sound of detonating gasoline inside the 10-inch bore of a 25-hpType C IHC Mogul model 25 chuffed its way out of straight pipe directly out of the cylinder head. Each explosion inside the 1,105-cubic-inch cylinder was

Crops, Forages, News, Oilseeds

In Brief… – for Jul. 30, 2009

July 30, 2009

Wonder crop: Flax not only pads the bank account, it makes your hair shiny too, according to new research released last week by the Flax Council of Canada. Study participants ate a flax-enriched nutrition bar for four weeks from Glanbia Nutritionals, the Irish multinational that bought Pizzey’s Milling of Angusville, Man. The results show “softness,

News

Auction Sales Saskatchewan Auctions

June 18, 2009

UNRESERVED FARM LAND & EQUIPMENT AUCTION, LYNN COPELAND & FROM THE ESTATE OF MERVIN COPELAND, STURGIS, SK. LOCATION: 14.5-km North of Preeceville on Hwy. #9, then 10-km East. DATE: FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2009, at 10:00 a. m. LAND SELLS AT 1:00 p. m. LAND-HOME QUARTER-Hunter’s Paradise, SW 14 36 4 W2. R. M. of Preeceville

Country Crossroads

Still Plowing With Horses

By Tim Freeman May 28, 2009

Recently as the team and I were out plowing, I noticed a car drive slowly south by the field. There was a day when five horses on a two-bottom plow would not turn any heads. Recently as the team and I were out plowing, I noticed a car drive slowly south by the field. A

Opinion

Nothing Passé About Old MacDonald’s Approach

By Tim Freeman May 21, 2009

Manitoba’s farm media is full of the same story. The stories have different headlines and characters, but the main issue is as recurring as the beat of a drum. “What’s wrong with Prairie agriculture? What’s wrong with the AgriStability program? What’s happening to commodity, fertilizer, and cattle prices?” Sometimes columnists allude to the problems that

News

Safety Record On Canadian Farms Improving

By Lorraine Stevenson April 23, 2009

Fewer farmers and their family members are being killed on Canadian farms, a new report says. It may be because farmers take safety more seriously nowadays. Fatal agricultural injury data from 1990 to 2005 recently released by the Canadian Agricultural Injury Surveillance Program (CAISP) show a small but steady decline in the number of agricultural

Forages, News

“Holy Smokes! Maybe I’m Dying Here!”

By Theresa Whalen March 12, 2009

“ I remember like it was yesterday. The freezing rain was stinging my face and I was lying there in the mud – so cold – with the horses sniffing and milling around above me. I could feel a painful heat and numbness rising up my body from my legs – like boiling water. All

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Agritechnica: The World’s Largest Farm Machinery Exhibition

Canadian Harrow Manages Heavy German Stubble

Tractors On A Mission

Hit And Miss A Hit At Thresherman’s Reunion

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Auction Sales Saskatchewan Auctions

Still Plowing With Horses

Nothing Passé About Old MacDonald’s Approach

Safety Record On Canadian Farms Improving

“Holy Smokes! Maybe I’m Dying Here!”

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