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Mar 18, 2025
Three Ways Drone Technology Can Help Livestock Operations
Drones can save time finding and checking on your livestock. They can also cause animals less stress than approaching them on the ground. Drones have a lot to offer cattle and sheep operations. Here are three ways aerial observation, quick access to remote areas, multi-level zoom cameras, and thermal imaging can make livestock management much easier. Keeping Tabs on Your Livestock On a cold, snowy day, how would you prefer to check your cows? Bundling up for a long ground search that ends with you startling your herd and having to search for them again. Watching a broad aerial...
Mar 6, 2025
How a Rock Picker and Windrower in One Could Work for You
Schulte’s inescapable 1935 is like RoboCop for rocks. A single rock picker/rock rower unit sounds great, but can it pay for itself? Here’s how the Schulte RW-1935 Spartan Rock Picker Windrower answers that question. Consider rising repair costs. “Equipment likes to run, and rocks like to break down equipment. That’s nothing new,” says Kevin Kulak, Flaman’s Territory Manager for Alberta’s Peace Country. “Fifteen to 20 years ago, a rock getting into a combine might cause a few hundred to maybe a couple thousand damage. You mainly lost time. “But today’s equipment is intricately designed to run quicker with more...
Mar 5, 2025
Flaman Answers Call for Northern Wildfire Response
Hitting Northern Wildfires with 300 gallons of water and foam. A lightning strike. A crown fire that jumps from treetop to treetop. Dropping embers fall to the ground and smoulder in a quick-drying peat layer up to five feet deep. They wait all winter to flare up through the forest floor or burn through tree roots and inside trunks. In the northern woods, fire is a different animal. Tree stands are much sparser on the southern prairies. More people can spot and report blazes, and emergency response is less obstructed. Up north, fires are isolated – usually spotted first by...
Nov 19, 2024
How a Bench Custom Grain Cleaner More Than Pays for Itself
It’s a scene that’s played out on farm after farm across Canada. Flaman Sales Specialist James Vanbeselaere positions your input and output augers, sets four levelling jacks, flips a switch on the central electric panel, and another farmer is in business. If you’ve read our other Bench Custom Grain Cleaners Blog, you know that the business of on-farm grain cleaning makes good long-term economic sense. That blog discussed the savings you could bank, potentially over decades. With James’s help, this one details the ease, versatility, and benefits of operating your own personally customized cleaner. Easy Start Up “They usually reach...
Nov 19, 2024
The Benefits of Customized On-Farm Grain Cleaning
"Every farm’s going to be different,” says James Vanbeselaere. “Every area will be different, depending on what they're trying to clean.” As a Flaman Sales Specialist who’s installed and fired up a lot of customized Bench grain cleaners for enterprising customers, he should know. What he’s showing farmers is a viable alternative to the transport distances, fuel costs, and unloading cues they can see taking their commodities to seed cleaning plants. Grain Cleaning Comes Home “You're just paying an expense to have the other guy clean it,” James says. “A lot of custom cleaners charge about a dollar a...