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This program profiles inventions that make it easier to handle large farm equipment, save money by efficiently eliminating unwanted pests and the problems they cause, and improving the efficiency of fertilizer. Features include an auger steering system for easier maneuvering around obstacles and lining up to grain bins, a simple trap that allows a farmer to quickly get rid of hundreds and even thousands of yield robbing gophers, a modified cultivator shovel that levels mole hills in hay fields to prevent damage to haying equipment, and a loader-tractor made out of salvaged combine components to provide good floatation in wet conditions.    CONTACT INFO: Auger Steer & Scale: Dean Toews @ www.triplestarmfg.com or 205-871-1175 Gopher Trap: Lee Schwartz @ www.leestrapworks.com or 306-778-2083 Mole Hill Shovels: Beric Haukaas @ www.haukaas.com or 306-355-2718 Fehr-Magnum Tractors: John Fehr @ jsranch@mts.net The methods you use to feed your livestock can make the difference between profit and loss in your livestock operation. Helpful feed handling ideas profiled on this program include a combine attachment that creates chaff piles for winter cattle feeding at minimal expense, an innovation that allows one tractor to pull two haybines to maximize productivity and minimize labor requirements, and two farm built bale processors- a tow behind unit built around an old sprayer cart and a self-propelled bale processor mounted on an old International four wheel drive tractor.     CONTACT INFO: Chaff Box: Ken Schumacher @ kschumacher@sasktel.net Rural residents already know it, but city dwellers are just starting to discover that rural areas are filled with entertaining and educational attractions. Attractions profiled on this episode include a standard grain elevator built in the 1920’s that has been declared a heritage site and converted into a wheat museum, a classic 1950’s hip roof barn that has been restored and turned into a museum that houses a variety of educational collectibles, and a restored farmhouse from the early 1900’s which is now a museum filled with all kinds of farm and rural related items ranging from acetylene generators for operating various household items to a classic coal heater.   CONTACT INFO: Hepburn Elevator Museum: Vic Peters @ 306-947-2026 Charlie's Barn Museum: Don & Irene Johnston @ 780-349-2026 House Museum: Dale Keeler @ 306-668-4650 How you handle your grain could easily decide whether your farm is profitable or losing money. This episode contains a variety of efficient grain handling ideas including a farm family that built two conveyors which minimize grain damage and can be used on all crops, one 40 foot pull-type unit and one 80 foot self-propelled system mounted on a utility tractor. Also profiled is an easy to use system for getting consistent samples from your grain bins, a low-cost manual assist system that helps you move your auger over or around obstacles, an insert for grain bin door to keep rodents out and allow you to easily remove a single load without making a mess, and a grain cart mounted on tracks to save you from making ruts in your fields if conditions are a bit soft during harvest.     CONTACT INFO: Manual Auger Assist: Philip Simrose, @ pksimrose@sasktel.net or 306-355-2709 Grain Bin Door Insert: Beric Haukaas @ 306-355-2718 or www.haukaas.com Grain Cart On Tracks: Vic Zacharias @ 204-829-3342 The Sample Bin: Brian Krywko @ bkrywko@xlpornet.com or 780-939-7462 Rural areas produce a variety of gifted craftspeople and artists, and several of the best are featured on this program. See profiles of a metal artist that creates amazing art from all different types of metal including recycled discer blades from old farm equipment, a craftsperson that utilizes willow and other types of wood to build a variety of unique pieces of furniture, and an artist that produces amazing western themed glass art by gluing together different colored pieces of glass.   CONTACT INFO: Steel Your Art Away: Jan Allen @ www.steelyourartaway.com or 204-757-4859 Willow Furniture: Sue Parcels @ www.bluemesawillow.com or 403-886-4409 Glass Art: Melissa Hay @ inbalancewellness@yahoo.ca or 780-786-4186 If you are one of those classic farm equipment enthusiasts that can’t get enough of seeing vintage tractors in action, this episode is especially for you. Featured on this program is a Twin Cities tractor from the early 1900’s that had one of the first in-line six cylinder engines, a rare Farmall collection that includes the rare white Farmall ‘A’ Demonstrator as well as a rare unit known as the Shop Mule, and a Cockshutt collection with everything from the Cockshutt 60 built in the 1940’s to the 570 from the early 1960’s.  Top flight pasture management may be your most efficient way to increase returns and cut down expenses at the same time. This episode includes a grazing setup where intensive grazing is being utilized as a way of improving pasture productivity. Other features on this program profile a research facility where winter bale grazing and swath grazing are being compared to dry lot feeding in terms of cost, and a pasture system where productivity is improved by rapid herd rotation early in spring when pasture growth is fast, and then slower more intensive grazing later in summer when growth slows down. You’ll also see how June calving matches the peak nutritional needs of cows to peak pasture growth.   CONTACT INFO: Dr. Bart Lardner, Western Beef Development Center. Humboldt, SK. 306-682-3139 or blardner.wbdc@pami.ca In this program you’ll meet farmers who are involved in unconventional business ventures that give them a reliable supplemental income source. Features includes a small mixed farm that also raises hackle chickens which produce feathers that are in demand from anglers for tying flies. You’ll also visit a grain farm where they grow the grain and mill it into a healthy whole grain flower, as well as a purebred cattle breeder who also raises fancy pigeons that sell for up to $10,000 to buyers around the world.   CONTACT INFO: Clint Robertson, Fancy Pigeons. Amaranth, MB. 204-843-2986 or barj@mts.net Jim Hugo, JRK Farms Flour Mill. Three Hills, AB. 403-443-7317 or jrkfarms@xplornet.com John Howard of Howard Hackle for Fly Tying. Didsbury, AB. 403-335-9155 www.howardhackle.com On this episode you’ll see a number of farm built inventions designed to make otherwise difficult and time consuming jobs a whole lot easier. Inventions profiled on this program will include a barrel lift and dump for chemical barrels that is faster than pumping and has the capability to set the height at which the barrel is dumped. You’ll also see a 10-inch grain auger mounted on an old International 210 self propelled swather to take the back work out of moving the auger around to set up at bins, as well as a an early 1970’s Versatile 400 swather that’s been equipped with three, seven foot mowers and turned into an efficient 21 foot finishing mower.    CONTACT INFO: Philip Simrose, Barrel Lift/Dump. Mortlach, SK. 306-355-2709 pksimrose@sasktel.net The farm shop is one of the most important buildings on any farm or ranch. If you have an efficient, well equipped shop, chances are your whole operation will be more productive. This episode features a shop with a farm built insulated 42 foot door and a handy set of anchors built right into the concrete floor, another shop where it’s a treat to work on farm projects because the building has access to high quality daylight with the flip of a switch. You’ll also see an alternative heat source that can burn a number of different crops grown right on the farm and could be utilized to heat the shop.    CONTACT INFO: Delmer & Janet Hering, Prairie Fire Grain Burning Stove. Bruno, SK. 306-369-2825 www.grainburningstoves.ca This episode profiles those special few collectors who really can’t help it, they have to collect rare antique tractors and trucks and restore them to their former glory. Features include a family that has focused their energies on restoring Oliver tractors and all the history that goes with that famous name, and have even included a Hart Parr tractor in their collection since that was the predecessor to Oliver. You’ll also see a restored Durant Rugby truck from the 1920’s, as well as a restored Waterloo Boy that’s been in the same family ever since it was new in the early 1900’s. Also included in this episode is a rare 300 horsepower, four wheel drive International tractor from the early 1960’s.   This episode is filled with examples of the ingenuity of farmers and ranchers. Profiles include a 200 horsepower tractor with the cab turned around in order to mount the snow blower on the front end, and has the capability to blow snow up to 100 feet. This program also features submitted ‘U-Pitch’ videos by farmers and ranchers of their own farm built inventions, including a handy system where hogs sort themselves according to weight, and a feed processor that allows the operator to blend feed according to the nutritional needs of the cattle.   CONTACT INFO: Todd Daniels Horse Drawn Balesled (Phone: 204-634-2525 Email: toddd@goinet.ca Website: www.balesled.com) Stewart Walker Home Video - Mole Hill Destroyer (Phone: 306-542-4498 Email: thewalkers@imagewireless.ca Website: www.molehilldestroyer.com) Working with cattle is an ongoing juggling act of trying to increase productivity while at the same time keeping costs at a minimum. This episode profiles a DNA test that assesses live cattle in terms of characteristics such as carcass yield and tenderness, Ribeye area, heifer pregnancy rate, stayability in the herd and other economically important traits. You’ll also see how desiccating a field of green feed can be an effective way of insuring your feed supply against damage from summer rains after it’s been cut. This episode will also feature another installment of ‘U-Pitch’ viewer submitting video on cattle related innovations such as an effective high volume winter watering system as well as a system for feeding grain without the time consuming back breaking job of lugging pails around. CONTACT INFO: Dennis McMorris Desiccated Yellow Feed Oats (Phone: 306-333-4904 Email: crystald@sasktel.net) Les Johnston DNA Cattle Testing (Phone: 306-722-3668 Email: niskufarms@sasktel.net) Garth Elgie DNA Cattle Testing (Phone: 403-861-4452 Email: garth.Elgie@merial.com)
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