WHEN YOU DO IT LIKE I DID, YOU LEARN THE LATEST METHODS AND PRACTICES OF PRODUCING.
Growing up on a leased dairy farm near Egg, Switzerland, a small agricultural community just outside of Zurich, Meinrad Kaelin wanted something more for his life.
Visitors to two major farm shows in Ontario and Quebec, Canada, in 2013 witnessed something new – a MacDon booth. This stronger presence for MacDon at both Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show in Woodstock, Ontario, and Expo-Champs in St. Liboire, Quebec, coincides with a major change in how farmers will purchase the new 5 Series MacDon FlexDrapers at many dealers starting in 2014.
AG CONNECT GIVES US A CHANCE TO HAVE MEANINGFUL ONE-TO-ONE CONVERSATIONS WITH OUR CUSTOMERS AND DEALERS.
Back when AG CONNECT was still a gleam in the eyes of a handful of key ag executives, their vision was to reinvent the ag show concept for North America. They wanted a bigger, more impactful event; something where producers would not only be able to kick the tires on the latest equipment, but also have access to the brightest minds, latest ideas and most advanced technologies in the industry.
THERE’S NO COMPARISON TO OTHER HEADERS THAT I HAVE HAD. THE FEEDING IS THE BEST PART OF THE WHOLE THING.
The story is the same in New South Wales, Australia, as it is everywhere else in the world; combines are getting bigger and hungrier. But in the semi-arid area around the district of Urangeline, NSW, the decision to buy a bigger combine is not so clear cut.
With over 1.5 million acres (over 600,000 hectares) under production and almost 9 million tons harvested in 2012 (USDA California Field Crop Review, Oct. 2012), hay is big business in California. It is also highly competitive. According to Randy LaFollette, whose family custom cuts hay and silage near Turlock in California’s San Joaquin Valley, there are numerous operations just like theirs throughout the valley working to meet the feed requirements of California’s dairy industry.
I HAD DREAMED OF A MACHINE LIKE THAT FOR YEARS, AND WAS BUSY TRYING TO INVENT ONE.
It was his frustration harvesting peas that prompted Mike Wagner – a Mississippi rice and soybean farmer and recent President of the Mississippi Rice Growers Association – to first buy a MacDon draper header back in the mid ’90s. Chemical restrictions set by the USDA, often meant that his peas often grew up in a carpet of morning glories, barnyard grass, brachiaria, broadleaf weeds and “who knows what else.”