Buhler adds tillage to Farm King, Versatile lines

The owner of the Farm King and Versatile farm equipment brands has added tillage equipment to both product lines. Winnipeg’s Buhler Industries, which in February bought seeding equipment maker Ezee-On Manufacturing, said Wednesday it will produce its new tillage lines at the Ezee-On plant at Vegreville, Alta. A “complete range” of offset discs, tandem discs, […] Read more

Bin maker Meridian to offer aeration systems

Canadian hopper-bottom bin maker Meridian Manufacturing Group plans to expand its product offering in 2012 to include aeration systems. Meridian’s AirMax system, announced Wednesday at the Western Canada Farm Progress Show in Regina, is billed as a “flexible” system designed for retrofit installation in farmers’ existing hopper bins. The system will be available to farmers […] Read more


Westeel to add conveyor systems to product line

Canadian steel grain bin maker Westeel has tapped a Swedish manufacturer to build Westeel-branded conveyor and elevator grain handling systems. Westeel on Monday announced it has contracted with Skandia Elevator, based at Arentorp, Sweden, about 100 km northeast of Goteborg, to manufacture conveyors and elevators for sale in Canada under the Westeel name. Skandia’s systems […] Read more




EQuipTV: Getting best results from combines, seeders

Ways in which Prairie farmers can get the most out of their combines and air drills this year are the topics of two new videos at Grainews.ca. In the short EQuipTV videos posted Wednesday, Grainews machinery editor Scott Garvey takes you to a Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute (PAMI) combine clinic at Brandon, Man. and a Seed […] Read more


Video: A roundtable on stalled spring seeding

Lyndsey Smith, editor of Grainews, joins host Shaun Haney of RealAgriculture.com and editor Claire Cowan of Ontario Grain Farmer for a discussion on Canadian grain growers’ challenging spring so far, up to and including this week. In this interview, recorded Thursday, Lyndsey and Claire discuss the conditions keeping many farmers off the fields and potentially […] Read more

Monteregie Deere dealership chain expands east

A chain of four John Deere equipment dealerships in Quebec’s Monteregie has expanded eastward in a merger with another Deere dealer in the Estrie. Les Equipements Lague, which deals in Deere’s ag, commercial, lawn, garden, turf and golf equipment and Gator utility vehicles at St-Hyacinthe, Pike River, Ange-Gardien and Varennes, on Thursday announced it will […] Read more


Sask. again grandfathers farm license plates

Saskatchewan farmers who aren’t able to get enough acres seeded this spring to qualify for their “F” (farm) plates will get to keep their designation for another year. SGI, the province’s Crown auto insurer, had granted a farm plate eligibility exemption in 2010, set to expire next month, on June 1. “However, with farmers throughout […] Read more