Reading Time: < 1 minute If you attended Ag in Motion last month, hopefully you made your way over to the field demonstration area where there was no shortage of activity. Here, sprayers were compared side-by-side in the Ride & Drive, land-levellers churned out arable land from pasture, and as you’ll see in this video, a variety of air seeders […] Read more
VIDEO: You have to seed it to believe it
Ag in Motion 2018: Air seeders put to the test in live field demos
August 16 – 31 | Fuel Lock Review at CFPS 2018
AgDealer's Spencer Myers and Scott Garvey from Grainews Magazine talk with Landon Fahlman about his new product, the Fuel Lock,at Canada's Farm Progress Show in Regina, SK earlier this summer.
August 16 – 31 Diagnosing phytophthora root rot in soybeans
What to look for when identifying phytophthora, when you should scout for it and what can be done if it appears in your soybean crop
Aug 1 – Aug 15: AGCO Unveils Fendt IDEAL Combine at CFPS 2018
AgDealer's Spencer Myers and Scott Garvey from Grainews Magazine talk with Richard Kohen from AGCO about the IDEAL Combine and AGCO’s choice of Fendt as brand we’ll see in Canada.
Aug 1 – Aug 15: AgOpenGPS software can control auto-steer and tilt, as well as functions to turn the seeder or sprayer on/off
The program connects with an arduino (mini controller), over wireless technology, communicating GPS co-ordinates & speed
July 15 – July 31: DOT Update at CFPS 2018
Scott Garvey from Grainews talks with Cory Beaujot from DOT/ SeedMaster about the progress of the DOT so far. They talk about dealing with legislation for robotics, and safety features of the autonomous farm machine.
July 15 – July 31: A newly formed company called Connect, has produced a sprayer attachment for DOT
Rick Pattison, says the DOT platform enables short-line equipment manufacturers to enter the world of autonomous, robotic farming.
July 1-15 | Rogator C-Series from Challenger at CFPS 2018
Scott Garvey from Grainews talks with Pat Kellner from AGCO about the new Rogator C-Series Sprayers and how the one-of-a-kind features are game changers in the high-clearance, self-propelled sprayer market.
July 1 – July 15: Don Campbell believes the spot-spray approach using drones could be a valuable tool where traditional equipment may find it difficult.
The Kray drone, flying more than 100 km/h with a five-metre boom, can carry up to 15 kg of product for delivering insecticides at ultra-low volumes.
June 15 – June 30: Two recent weed identification days were held the second-last week of May re: points to watch for when Identifying seedlings
Alexis Stockford recently met with provincial weed experts to hear about key points to watch for when identifying weeds as seedlings.
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