Technology Archive
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Set up your cab for surround sound.
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Grain carts increase harvest efficiency.
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Producers line up to buy condo storage.
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Put grain carts to work in the spring.
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Find the right tractor for your grain cart.
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Grain baggers offer storage flexibility.
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Keep stored canola dry and cool.
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Prairie producers slow to embrace tracks.
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Size really does matter.
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Pull-types offer a lower-cost sprayer alternative.
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Manual calibration still a necessity.
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Go big or go fast?
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Air-induced nozzles offer versatility.
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Farmers see super-B as new must-have truck.
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Sleeper bunks raise conversion costs.
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Auto transmission boosts hiring options.
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Retired highway tractors fill farm needs.
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Longer hauls demand bigger trucks.
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RTK guidance boosts Crop yield.
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Pick the accuracy you need.
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GPS has a fit on small farms too.
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Basic systems access GPS technology at low cost.
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Personalize your weather report.
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An education in weather.
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Wheat midge forecasts gain accuracy.
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Applied weather Information.
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Leave fuel in your tank.
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Demand continues to pressure fuel prices.
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Leave the chore tractor in the shed this winter.
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Lose the cultivator and lower your fuel bill.
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Place your machinery order early.
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Look south for used equipment.
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Machinery production capacity ramps up — slowly.
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No shortage of forage equipment.
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The making of a canola hybrid.
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Why hybrid vigor is a one-time event.
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100-bushel canola? Stay tuned.
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Does straight-cutting suit hybrids?
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Canola crosses new frontiers.
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Demographics and environment trump GMO politics.
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Three traits today, eight tomorrow.
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New traits wanted - and step on it.
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Fieldwork goes hands off.
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Bring the world to your farm.
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GPS goes universal.
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Pay more, get more.
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High-speed hits the farm belt.
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Check hardware for high-speed compatibility.
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Get organized!.
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Canola growers raise the bar on yield.
Canola growers suspect that you “get out what you put in.” And one soil services company set out to confirm that belief with its yield-based King of Canola Challenge. This is the fourth year Hudye Soil Services in Norquay, SK, has challenged area growers to achieve the highest potential canola yield on a field of their choice. More
In support of winter cereals.
Two million acres of winter cereals routinely grown across the prairies is the goal of the Winter Cereal Sustainability in Action (WCSIA) program. With that objective in reach following the program’s launch last year, Bayer CropScience and Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) are doubling their efforts to get the word out that winter cereals work.More

