Farm Progress Show - Day Three

June 19, 2009
  • DUC, Viterra offer winter wheat incentive

    DUC, Viterra offer winter wheat incentive

    There may be cash or crop discounts available for farmers considering seeding a winter wheat crop this season.

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  • Easy Guide hitch wins new invention prize

    Easy Guide hitch wins new invention prize

    Sometimes close is enough, but not typically when trying to hook up to a trailer hitch. Mumby Manufacturing’s Easy Guide trailer coupler can help solve that issue.

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  • Flex swing-away auger makes moving easy

    Flex swing-away auger makes moving easy

    As auger sizes have grown significantly in the past few years, making them easier to manoeuvre saves effort and strained muscles. The new Wheatheart SA Flex is designed to do just that.

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  • Farm security can be both sophisticated, affordable

    Farm security can be both sophisticated, affordable

    Keeping a watchful eye on bins, trucks, crops and livestock around the clock doesn’t have to be expensive or highly complicated to be effective.

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  • Great Plains conducts first-ever Show Sale

    Great Plains conducts first-ever Show Sale

    Beginning at 11:30 Friday morning, Great Plains Auctioneers held an auction in the Show and Sale arena on the grounds of the Western Canada Farm Progress Show.

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  • Bio-fungicide approved for canola, pulses

    Bio-fungicide approved for canola, pulses

    Conventional and organic growers alike have a new broad-spectrum fungicide option for canola and pulses.

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  • Software turns laptop into GPS system

    Software turns laptop into GPS system

    Instead of investing in a complete GPS system that sees use only a few weeks of the year, Farmer GPS of Stony Plain, Alta., offers a complete software package that can have your laptop computer doing double duty.

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  • New tandem discs have smaller transport sizes

    New tandem discs have smaller transport sizes

    No-till technologies have drastically reduced cultivation in most areas of the Prairies, but a Vegreville, Alta. tillage implement maker says producer interest in the company’s heavy discs remains strong.

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Farm Progress Show - Day Two

June 18, 2009
  • New tank requires one fill per quarter section

    New tank requires one fill per quarter section

    Regina-area manufacturer SeedMaster has designed its Titan III fertilizer caddy with an eye on the clock.

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  • New Holland rolls out newest utility tractor

    New Holland rolls out newest utility tractor

    As its “8N” moniker implies, New Holland's new Boomer tractor design is inspired by the classic little grey 8N Ford from about six decades earlier.

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  • Exhaust-pipe emissions: Pollution or fertilizer?

    Exhaust-pipe emissions: Pollution or fertilizer?

    An Alberta businessman believes part of the solution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions may be to turn them into fertilizer, right out of the exhaust pipe.

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  • Swath roller follows better, offers transport ease

    Swath roller follows better, offers transport ease

    A Saskatchewan-made steel-drum swath roller on display at the Farm Progress Show represents a rethink of the single-hitch design on many conventional models.

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  • Versatile introduces new heavy-duty loader

    Versatile introduces new heavy-duty loader

    Versatile's new high-capacity front-end loader is making its farm show debut in Regina.

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  • Pod Ceal DC seals in yield

    Pod Ceal DC seals in yield

    Seed loss due to shattering is one concern many canola growers have when choosing to straight-cut. A new product being rolled out by BrettYoung could help.

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  • Work safe around power lines: SaskPower

    Work safe around power lines: SaskPower

    Something as simple as knowing what to do, when a high-riding auger snags an overhead power line, could save your life.

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  • Alternative biofuel crop generating interest

    Alternative biofuel crop generating interest

    Growing camelina is a relatively simple adjustment for those already familiar with canola.

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Farm Progress Show - Day One

June 17, 2009
  • CNH enters precision seeder market

    CNH enters precision seeder market

    Case IH has plowed into the precision seeding game with its new Precision Hoe 800 air hoe drill.

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  • Province offers long-term show support

    Province offers long-term show support

    The 32nd annual Western Canada Farm Progress Show in Regina kicked off Wednesday with welcome news from the Saskatchewan government.

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  • Bourgault introduces 3710 coulter drill

    Bourgault introduces 3710 coulter drill

    This year’s Western Canada Farm Progress Show is giving Prairie producers their first look at Bourgault’s new 3710 coulter drill.

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  • Balzer demos 2000-bushel grain cart

    Balzer demos 2000-bushel grain cart

    On the Farm Progress Show's agenda for equipment demonstrations this year is an Iowa company that's decided to go big.

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