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Grain is grown worldwide Principal food for humans
Principal food for domesticated animals
(cattle, hogs, poultry)
7 Million modern grain farmers worldwide
Cereal Crops
Wheat Oats Barley Rye Corn Rice Many
others
Canola Soybeans Flax Many others
Oil Seed Crops
World Harvesting MethodsWHOLE CROP HARVESTING
Removes grain, chaff and stalk from field
Requires less herbicides
Biomass used for feed and animal bedding
Huge volume of material removed creates material handling problems
World Harvesting MethodsCOMBINE
Replaced whole crop harvesting - less labour
Removes only the grain kernel from field
Spreads weeds - increased herbicide use
Wasteful - valuable biomass left in field
The McLeod Harvest System
Removes grain kernel and chaff from the field
Leaves straw in field
Grain kernels and chaff separated by a mill
The McLeod Harvest System
Produces two products:
(1) Grain
(2) Valuable animal feed
Removes weed seeds from the field
The McLeod Harvest System
NO MORE LABOUR
NO MORE TIME
NO MORE RISK
THAN COMBINING
GREATER FIELD VALUE
INCREASED EQUIPMENT EFFICIENCY
The McLeod Harvest System
NO MORE LABOUR
NO MORE TIME
NO MORE RISK
THAN COMBINING
GREATER FIELD VALUE
INCREASED EQUIPMENT EFFICIENCY
McLeod Harvest System
Farm Economics
Millings can be used by farmer or sold – significant revenue increase Reduces input costs – herbicides Reduces labour – saves baling and bale handling
Rate of Return of Combine and McLeod Harvest Wheat Crop
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McLeod
Combine
Research
10 years – $12 million invested Engineering involved: hydraulics, pneumatics, mechanical, electronics Science: weed science, feed science, crop science
The World’s Premier Harvesting System
More equipment value
More economics
Greater efficiencies
PotentialNorth America
8,000 combines sold per year
1 million farmers harvest grain
World
70% of the world’s grain supply is harvested
outside North America
The McLeod Harvest System
• A revolutionary harvest system with world implications• The system works• The system is efficient• Economics are superior to the combine• The system’s integrity is established• The system is on the market• Margins are obtainable• A viable business is readily foreseeable• Experienced, committed management and staff
Don and Ken Armitage farm 1200 acres and have 130 beef cows in Miniota, Manitoba. The millings from the harvested crop is equivalent to about 700 round bales of hay. They no longer bale hay for winter rations.
Hacault Family, Bruxelles, Manitoba Alex Bickley, Sylvan Lake, Alberta Clay Cory (bottom rt.), Wawanesa, Manitoba
Murray Mulllin, Cartwright, ManitobaLorne and Linda Hayward, Virden, Manitoba Lynn and Dean Grant,
Val Marie, Saskatchewan
Richard Seatter, Dapp, Alberta Rod and Graham PuschWindthorst, Saskatchewan
Randy Radau, Bowden, Alberta
Cy and Patrick Skinner, Provost, Alberta Harold Solick, Lacombe, Alberta Alan WhitrowYellow Grass, Saskatchewan
