Farmers Weekly, Richard Allison, September 12, 2019. Ontario farmer Jake Kraayenbrink has invented his own auto-inflation system to keep tyres at the optimum pressure, lowering the risk of soil damage. It just takes him a few seconds to change the tyre pressures on his tractor and 24t twin-axle slurry tanker, ready to tread lightly across the field. High tyre pressures...

Published in Ontario Farmer June 4th, 2019. Authors Ian McDonald and Alex Barrie, OMAFRA and Peter Johnson, RealAgriculture Authors Ian McDonald and Alex Barrie, OMAFRA and Peter Johnson, RealAgriculture It’s hard to put any more adjectives to the frustration of this springs weather. In 2019 “all bets are off” on what is the right thing to do in terms of...

Aftermarket system allows for auto tire inflation from the cab By Scott GarveyMachinery EditorPublished: November 29, 2018 Equipment, Machinery and Shop That big, new aircart that recently arrived on the farm has the widest available radial tires on it, so there’s no need to think about soil compaction, right? Wrong. Choosing the right rubber is only the first step in ensuring equipment does the...

Farmers have to make decisions on which soil-health technologies they want to adopt By Lois Harris Published: November 22, 2018  Building and maintaining soil health increasingly involves technology. The challenge for farmers is deciding which approach they invest in to monitor and maintain their soil health. Three different approaches using technology to solve soil health problems were presented at the Grey County’s...

Published: July 12, 2018 An Agribrink hydraulically driven compressor with a tank feeds the company’s central inflation gear. A gate at each tire valve will drop the air independently, making it one of the fastest in the marketplace at moving from road to field. | Agribrink photo Putting big shoes on little feet can help spread out the weight of...

A Canada field test using new technology showed how tire pressure and tracks affect top-soil stress, and how axle load impacts deep compaction. John Vogel | Oct 02, 2017   If you believe that tracks and spray rigs floating on high-pressure tires don’t cause serious soil compaction, you’d be wrong — on both counts. That’s one of the take-homes that...

Other countries are tackling compaction head on. Here, there’s hardly a whisper By Ralph Pearce FOLLOW CG Production Editor Published: October 4, 2016 Europe may be considering robotics and advance sensing systems, but growers can help with cover crops and rethinking the traffic on their fields. Photo: File Compaction has somehow become one of those topics that gets scooped up...

By Jessie Scott 5/10/2016 Back in 2010, Canadian hog farmer Jake Kraayenbrink started searching for a tire inflation system in North America that would work well in ag applications. His search turned up little results, so he traveled across the Atlantic to see what was being used on farms in Europe. “On the first trip, we went to five countries and...