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Inventions profiled on this program include an auger based system for distributing seed on air seeders which avoids the problems associated with air based systems. Other features include an innovative swath roller that easily follows the swather whether going forward or backing up, and a cherry picker with a 21-foot hydraulic lift that can be controlled from either the basket or ground level. .JPG) .JPG) CONTACT INFO: Revo Roller - Keith Hauser, Box 509, Melville Sk. SOA 2P0. Phone: 306-728-2101. E-mail: hauser.machinery@sasktel.net Web: www.hausers.ca SeedMaster Seeding - Norbert Beaujot, #1 South Plains Road West, Emerald Park Sk. S4L 1C6. Phone: 1-888-721-3001. www.strawtrack.ca This program features an experienced organic farmer who has designed and built flourmills that make healthy whole grain flour just the way he likes it, a leather worker who makes hand crafted saddles that take up to a month to complete and sell for as high as $5,000, as well as a sheep farm that raises sheep and processes the fiber into wool in their on-farm mill.    CONTACT INFO: Flour Mill - Arnold Schmidt, Box 99, Maple Creek Sk. SON 1NO Phone: 306-666-4800. Web: www.schmidtflourinc.com Sheeples Fine Fibres - Joe & Kim Streker, Box 307, Inwood Mb. ROC 1PO Phone: 204-278-3297. Web: www.sheeplesfinefibres.com The Leather Loft- Saddle Making - Gail Cook, RR #1, Bentley Ab. TOC OJO Phone: 403-748-3928. Web: www.theleatherloft.org Classic farm equipment profiled on this program includes a restored six horsepower stationary engine that’s been in the same family for over 100 years. You’ll also see a 1922 tractor built by the Rumely company which was eventually bought out by Allis Chalmers, a Wallis tractor from the late ‘20’s or early 30’s that was the forerunner to the Massey Harris, a stook loader from the 1920’s that loaded stooks on to racks automatically instead of requiring manual labor, as well as a demonstration where horses provide the horsepower to do a variety of field work. .JPG) .JPG) .JPG) CONTACT INFO: Bangor Heritage Days - Wayne Duchek - Rumely Oil Pull Phone: 306-745-2917 Email: cwduchek@hotmail.com Lloyd Griffith - Acme Stook Loader Phone: 403-347-1518 Horse Drawn Threshing Bee - Jack Grad Phone: 306-762-4614 This episode profiles a half-acre attraction along a busy highway where plots are grown displaying prairie crops to tourists for both educational and entertainment purposes. You’ll also see a traditional barn that now houses a replica of a western town as well as a thriving costume rental business, and a farm yard beautification project that has become so popular that tours are now offered to give the public a chance to enjoy the yard first hand.   CONTACT INFO: 'Whooo's That' Costume Rental & Western Village - Box 127 Birtle Mb. R0M 0C0 Elly Sotas Phone: 204-842-3616 Email: hesotas@inetlink.ca Website: www.whooosthat.com Anchorage Gardens Don & Betty Engbrecht Box 697, Boissevain, MB R0K 0E0 Phone: 204-534-2567 Email: dbengb@xplornet.com Crops of the Parkland Randy Goulden, Yorkton, SK Phone: 306-783-8707 Email: tourismyorkton@sasktel.net Web: www.tourismyorkton.com See a hand held device that quickly and easily harvests a sample for moisture testing, rather than starting up a combine and driving miles to a field that may not be ready to harvest. Other features on this program include a cart that can be used for seeding in the spring and for unloading the combine during the fall harvest, as well as a remote controlled system for loading and unloading containers without the need to handle the crop inside.   CONTACT INFO: Minibatt Combine - GenAg Richard Falk, Winkler, MB. Phone: 204-312-0359 Email: richardf@can-agro.com Web: www.genag.com Container Mover - Chris Van Arnam, Carstairs, AB Phone: 403-333-5662 Web: www.containermobilitycanada.com SeedMaster Seeding - #1 South Plains Road West, Emerald Park Sk. S4L 1C6. Norbert Beaujot Phone: 1-888-721-3001 Web: www.strawtrack.ca GrainAir Tubes - Saskatoon, SK Gary Schreiner Phone: 306-933-1134 Web: www.grainairtubes.ca Brandt Electric Hopper Mover - Brandt Agricultural Products Ltd. Regina, SK Arnie Josephson Email: ajosephson@brandt.ca Phone: 306-791-7555 Web: www.brandt.ca This episode features a grazing system where stockpiled grass from the previous year allows for an early April start to grazing in most years. You’ll also visit a farm where open pollinated corn provides nutritious grazing when native pastures might be fading during the hot summer months, and see why grazing sheep with cattle can reduce predator losses and diversify income at the same time.   CONTACT INFO: Sheep Grazing with Cattle Len Larsen, Rouleau Sk. Phone: 306-776-2427 Web: www.prairiecreekranch.ca Grazing Open Pollinated Corn Ron Catt, Pratt, MB Phone: 204-723-2831 Email: ronlinmb@yahoo.ca Early Spring Grazing Blain Hjertaas, Redvers, SK. Phone: 306-452-3882 Email: bhjer@sasktel.net Profiles on this episode included a new wheat variety with tolerance to Orange Wheat Blossom Midge, a pest that can cause significant losses in both grade and yield. Also featured is Camelina, an oilseed crop with good drought tolerance, early maturity, frost-hardiness as well as strong disease and pest resistance. Plus see a profile of a high volume prairie based cabbage operation.   CONTACT INFO: Midge Tolerant A/C Unity VB Wheat Todd Hyra, Winnipeg, MB Phone: 204-489-9126 Email: thyra@secan.com Web: www.midgetolerantwheat.ca Cabbage Patch Shawn Hansen, Craven, SK. Phone: 306-731-3472 Email: riversidefarms@sasktel.net Camelina Plots Eric Johnson, Scott, SK Phone: 306-247-2011 Email: eric.johnson@agr.gc.ca See a 3600 square foot house built out of flax straw bales and framed with recycled wood from old grain elevators. Other features on this program include a farm family that uses a factory built wind turbine to provide most of their electrical needs, and a farm built wind turbine tower made out of an old harrow bar and a salvaged combine axle.   CONTACT INFO: Straw Bale House Keith Rowe, Cochrane, AB Phone: 403-807-6124 Email: keithrowe@wildroseinternet.ca Factory Built Wind Turbine Steve McKnight, Halkirk, AB Phone: 403-884-2393 Email: shoostar@hotmail.com Farm Built Wind Turbine Alvin Troop, Quill Lake, SK Phone: 306-383-2575 Email: altroop@sasktel.net This episode features a well-designed calving barn that reduces stress on both the animals and the people handling them. You’ll also tour a factory built cattle handling system that has been modified to hold their heads still to make it easier to administer needles or ear tagging, and a custom composting operation that reduces the volume of farm manure and turns it into a higher quality fertilizer and soil amendment.   CONTACT INFO: Modified Cattle Handling System Neil & Dave Copithorne, Calgary, AB Phone: 403-932-5558 Email: copithor@telus.net Composting Cattle Manure Landon Dalshaug, Lethbridge, AB Phone: 403-382-8300 Email: ldalshaug@iwkuhn.ab.ca Calving Barn Diane Coombs, Wroxton, SK. Phone: 306-742-4400 Email: barcranch@yourlink.ca Profiles on this episode include a specially designed round baler for baling biomass such as trees so that it could be burned as fuel for heating systems. Other features include a farm built hedge trimmer mounted on a conventional front end loader bucket as well as a giant subsoil ripper that can reach a depth of up to four feet to improve soil structure and subsequent crop yields.   CONTACT INFO: Swather/Mower & bucket mounted Hedge Trimmer John Ivers, Milo, AB Phone: 403-599-3874 Email: jaivers@telusplanet.net Bio-Baler Bill Schroeder, Indian Head, SK Phone: 306-695-5126 Email: bill.schroeder@agr.gc.ca Plain Ripper & Pasture Reclaimer Home Video Brenden Janssen, Vega, AB Phone: 780-674-5920 See a farm built conveyor system that is hooked up behind a small square baler and moves bales out of ditches to the edge of the road for easy pickup later on. Other features on this program include a self circulating livestock waterer that uses no electricity and won’t freeze up in winter, and another year round energy-free watering system where the livestock pump their own water.   CONTACT INFO: Ditch Bale Conveyor Mel Groening, Lowe Farm Mb. Phone: 204-746-8307 E-mail: melndoa@mts.net Thermosink Waterer Dave Flundra, Medicine Hat Ab. Phone: 306-662-2449 E-mail: cattle.creek@xplornet.com Frostfree Nosepumps Jim Anderson, Rimbey Ab. Phone: 403-843-6740 E-mail: info@frostfreenosepumps.com Web: www.frostfreenosepumps.com This episode features an efficient well designed farm shop with enough space to bring in today’s wide farm implements for servicing and maintenance work. You’ll also learn how to protect your farm equipment from fuel filter plugging caused by diesel fuel elements broken down by extreme heat in modern high pressure injection systems, and see the results of a modification for getting more horsepower out of older diesel engines   CONTACT INFO: Farm Shop and Machine Sheds Albert Jensen, Drumheller Ab. Phone: 403-823-9976 E-mail: alannafarms@telus.net Cummins Diesel Engine Modification Chuck Toney, Gull Lake Sk. Phone: 306-672-3694 E-mail: ctoney@sasktel.net Diesel Black Filter Syndrome Percy Hoff & Larry Drager, DSG Power Systems, 230-29th Street East, Saskatoon Sk. S7L 6Y6 Phone: 1-800-667-6879, 306-242-7644 Web: www.dieselservices.com E-mail: percyh@dieselservices.com
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