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Below are PFR 09/10 SHOW HIGHlIGHTS for Canadian and Northern Plains States network (not RFD-TV) which begins October, 2009 & runs through until the spring of 2010. Each of the episodes will repeat in the order listed in the late winter, spring and early summer of 2010
PFR 09/10 Season Episodes
(Canada and Northern Plain States only)
- Inventions (1):
This episode features an enclosed delivery van that’s been converted to a high capacity water hauler for spraying where the water is kept relatively algae free by being kept out of the sun. You’ll also see a manure spreader with four vertical beaters that produce an even spread along with optimal cleanout, as well as a water cannon that can shoot water over 250 feet in the air to dry out potholes.
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CONTACT INFO:
Manure Spreader With 4 Vertical Beaters - Denis & Justin Decroliere, Box 351, Oak Lake Mb. ROM 1PO.
Phone: 204-855-2838
Water Cannon - Chris Vanderstool, Pense, Sk. (Mfg by: Double A Trailers, Two Hills, Ab 780-657-0008)
- Machiney of the Past (1)
See a variety of amazing equipment used by farmers in years gone by, including a 1917 Ford Model T truck with a tractor rear end for doing field work. This program will also feature a number of classic tractors such as a 1914 Mogul, a 1918 Aultman Taylor and a rare Samson tractor built around the same time to compete with the popular Fordson. You’ll also see an unusual 1935 Linn truck mounted on tracks to handle the rough going.
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CONTACT INFO:
Aultman & Taylor Tractor - Michael S. Page, Linden, Ab. Phone: 403-546-2094
Samson Tractor - Tom Wilson, #93-1101-84 St. N.E., Calgary Ab. T2A 7X2
Phone: 403-271-8235. E-mail: sadcaseman@shaw.ca
Linn Truck - Harry Reding, Box 482, Irricana Ab. TOM 1BO.
Phone: 403-935-4750. E-mail: h.reding@redinginstruments.com
Ford Model T Autotrac & Mogul Tractor - Jack Tufts, Box 483, 43-3rd St. South, Souris Mb. ROK 2CO.
Phone: 204-483-2835
- Farmyards:
This program profiles a visually stunning yard that covers over two acres with attractive displays combining recycled materials with colorful plants and flowers. Other yards featured include amazing and intricate ponds with waterfalls, ingenious ways of covering up possible eyesores with flowers or small buildings and a variety of farm built features from sundials to silhouette metal signs.
CONTACT INFO:
Anchorage Gardens - Don & Betty Engbrecht, Box 697, Boissevain Mb. ROK OEO.
Phone: 204-534-2567. E-mail: dbengb@xplornet.com
Farmyard - Cliff Shockey & Sylvie Francoeur, Box 193, Vanscoy Sk. SOL 3JO
Phone: 306-668-2141. Email - cliffandsylvie@yourlink.ca
- Crop Management:
Ideas featured for improving cropping efficiency include a system that diagnosis plants in mid growing season to determine their fertilizer needs for optimum profitability, as well as an environmentally friendly biological fungicide to prevent sclerotinia in canola and white mould in beans. You’ll also see how growing peas and canola in the same field can produce benefits in areas such as pest control and overall profitability.
 
CONTACT INFO:
Biofungicides - Ken Coles, Southern Applied Research Association, #100, 5401-1st Ave. South, Lethbridge Ab. T1J 4V6.
Phone: 403-381-5118 E-mail: sara.research@connectcomm.ca
Intercropping - Seeding - Dale Hicks, Box 884, Outlook Sk. SOL 2NO.
Phone: 306-867-8674. E-mail: dhicks@sasktel.net
Greenseeker - Lee Moats, Box 42, Riceton Sk. SOG 4EO. Phone: 306-738-4716 E-mail: lmoats@sasktel.net
- Inventions (2):
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.
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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
- Rural Enterprise:
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
- Machinery of the Past (2):
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.
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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
- Rural Destinations:
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
- Grain Handling:
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
- Grazing Management:
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
- Crop Profiles:
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
- Re-Run of Episode #1 Inventions (1) 09/10 season
- Re-Run of Episode #2 Machinery of the Past (1) 09/10 season
- Country Living:
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
- Cattle Handling:
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
- Inventions (3):
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
- Feed Handling:
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
- Farm Shops:
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
- Re-Run of Episode #3 Farm Yards: See Above
- Re-Run of Episode #4 Crop Management: See Above
- Re-Run of Episode #5 Inventions (2): See Above
- Re-Run of Episode #6 Rural Enterprise: See Above
- Re-Run of Episode #7 Machinery of the Past (2): See Above
- Re-Run of Episode #8 Rural Destinations: See Above
- Re-Run of Episode #9 Grain Handling: See Above
- Re-Run of Episode #10 Grazing Management: See Above
- Re-Run of Episode #11 Crop Profiles: See Above
- Re-Run of Episode #14 Country Living: See Above
- Re-Run of Episode #15 Cattle Handling: See Above
- Re-Run of Episode #16 Inventions (3): See Above
- Re-Run of Episode #17 Feed Handling: See Above
- Re-Run of Episode #18 Farm Shops: See Above
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