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VIDEO: Producer feedback built into design of Highline’s TMR mixers

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff August 23, 2024

Depending on the size of your cattle operation, the value that a TMR mixer can bring for you and your herd may be worth a closer look. In this video, field editor Melissa Jeffers-Bezan talks with Claude Rouault with Highline Manufacturing about its line of feed mixer offerings, getting the optimal ration for your animal, […] Read more

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VIDEO: How beef cattle operations can benefit from a TMR mixer

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff August 21, 2024

According to Alan Vaage, ruminant nutritionist for Jaylor, the biggest problem with feed supply in beef cattle production is wastage as it can be selectively eaten. By Vaage’s estimate, a TMR mixer can save up to 20-30 per cent in forage use, or even higher for some operations. But it’s not just about the cost […] Read more

Esther Kimani (right) received the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation from the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2024 for developing the Early Crop Pest and Disease Detection Device. Photo: Royal Academy of Engineering

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Solar dry, soldier fly, AI: Africans fight hunger with innovation

By Kim Harrisberg, Reuters August 2, 2024

Alongside container farms in South Africa cultivating soldier flies for animal feed, solar-powered fish and crop dryers in Tanzania and machine-learning pest detectors in Kenya, Africans are coming up with innovative solutions to overcome the effects of climate change on food production.

A CNH manufacturing plant at Sorocaba, west of Sao Paulo in southeastern Brazil. (Photo courtesy CNH Industrial)

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CNH Industrial lowers profit forecast on slow demand for farming products

By Abhinav Parmar, Reuters July 31, 2024

Farm and construction equipment maker CNH Industrial on Wednesday lowered its 2024 profit forecast for the second time, as slowing demand for its tractors and combines keeps hopes for a recovery in the second half of the year muted.

Schulte Spartan RWP-1935 Rock Windrower Picker at AIM 2024. PHOTO: Janelle Rudolph

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Schulte combo wind-rower and rock-picker sparks interest at AIM

By Janelle Rudolph July 18, 2024

The Schulte Spartan RWP-1935 Rock Windrower Picker bring in rocks from a width of 19.19 feet wide with its hydraulically-driven wind rower, which is then connected directly to the rock picker with a three and a half cubic yard bucket.

Cassandra Morari, COO of Rack Petroleum Ltd. at Ag in Motion. Photo: Phil Franz-Warkentin

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Fuel hedging platform wins AIM innovation award

By Phil Franz-Warkentin July 17, 2024

Rack Petroleum Ltd.’s HedgeHog app allows users to confirm a guaranteed price for diesel for future delivery up to two years into the future.

The Stratus AirSprayer is essentially a powered paraglider — one that can carry heavier loads and stay aloft much longer than conventional drones. Photo: Supplied

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Paraglider powers a new kind of sprayer

By Mark Halsall July 17, 2024

The Stratus AirSprayer is different than the quadcopters and fixed-wing UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) typically associated with ag drones. Essentially, it’s a powered paraglider — one that can carry heavier loads and stay aloft much longer than conventional drones.

Launch of AMC’s mobile skills lab at AIM 2024.

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Mobile skills lab launches at Ag in Motion

By Gord Gilmour July 16, 2024

Agricultural Manufacturers of Canada has launched at mobile skills lab at Ag in Motion 2024.

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Ag in Motion Innovation Awards handed out

By Ed White July 16, 2024

The competition was made up of five categories, each including three contestants. Their innovations ranged from a giant manure bio-gas tank-trailer to a simple plastic calf castration card, from analytical management systems to hand-held leaf-scanning apps.

The company, along with Ram Industries Inc., was placed in receivership June 11 after numerous financial difficulties were reported and the company missed payments to BMO. It owes BMO more than $16.6 million. Photo: Screencap via google.com

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Leon Manufacturing for sale

Yorkton manufacturer's assets for sale as part of receivership process

By Karen Briere July 2, 2024

The company, along with Ram Industries Inc., was placed in receivership June 11 after numerous financial difficulties were reported and the company missed payments to BMO. It owes BMO more than $16.6 million.

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VIDEO: Producer feedback built into design of Highline’s TMR mixers

VIDEO: How beef cattle operations can benefit from a TMR mixer

Solar dry, soldier fly, AI: Africans fight hunger with innovation

CNH Industrial lowers profit forecast on slow demand for farming products

Schulte combo wind-rower and rock-picker sparks interest at AIM

Fuel hedging platform wins AIM innovation award

Paraglider powers a new kind of sprayer

Mobile skills lab launches at Ag in Motion

Ag in Motion Innovation Awards handed out

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