Insights and Stories on Machinery

Bindapt, a quick and easy-to-use grain drying solution

Feb. 20, 2020 at 9:04 am CST

Do you Bindapt? You may already own half of Adaptive Agriculture’s grain-drying system and not even know it. Using a construction heater, Adaptive Ag’s system of plates and thermostats uses real-time data monitoring and cloud software to help control the amount of heat entering your grain bin. The Saskatchewan-based company […]

Garneau re-adjusts train speed limits

Feb. 18, 2020 at 8:54 am CST

By GFM Staff

Xplornet buys Ontario’s Silo Wireless

Feb. 16, 2020 at 11:21 am CST

By GFM Staff

Subsidy for grain dryer upgrades in Alberta draws critics

Feb. 14, 2020 at 3:16 pm CST

By D.C. Fraser

Alberta program to cost-share grain dryer upgrades

Feb. 12, 2020 at 6:23 am CST

By Dave Bedard

Drones to be tested against Africa’s locust swarms

Feb. 11, 2020 at 11:22 am CST

Nairobi | Thomson Reuters Foundation — The United Nations is to test drones equipped with mapping sensors and atomizers to spray pesticides in parts of east Africa battling an invasion of desert locusts that are ravaging crops and exacerbating a hunger crisis. Hundreds of millions of the voracious insects have […]

By Nita Bhalla

Canada to cut speed limits for trains hauling dangerous goods

Feb. 6, 2020 at 4:20 pm CST

Ottawa/Winnipeg | Reuters — The federal government said Thursday it would impose temporary speed limits on trains hauling dangerous goods after a Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) crude oil train derailed and caught fire. The accident, which happened in the early hours of Thursday near Guernsey, Sask., about 40 km south […]

By David Ljunggren Rod Nickel

Battery-powered laser level from BinMaster

Feb. 6, 2020 at 4:13 pm CST

The SPL-200 single point laser from BinMaster installs through a 1.5-inch NPT connection on silos or in remote locations for inventory monitoring. The SPL-200 measures solids in silos up to 98 feet tall while the FVL-200 model measures livestock feed in silos up to 35 feet tall. Both models take […]

By Staff

Carbon tax an eight per cent hit on net income, APAS says

Feb. 6, 2020 at 6:25 am CST

The average Saskatchewan farmer can expect to lose about eight per cent of his or her annual net farm income to the federal carbon tax to 2020 — and 12 per cent in 2022, the province’s general ag group says. The Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan on Monday released new […]

By GFM Staff

Ford says emissions certification process under federal probe

Feb. 5, 2020 at 2:06 pm CST

Washington | Reuters — Ford Motor Co. said Wednesday Canadian officials have opened a preliminary investigation into the automaker’s emissions certification process. Ford said in its annual report Environment and Climate Change Canada has opened a probe into the matter after the automaker disclosed early last year that the U.S. […]

By David Shepardson