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Top Dressing in Western Canada

We are heading into what is looking like another typical year in agriculture where the only thing that is constant is change and wondering what the weather will do. This year in many areas of the Prairies had a dry fall, little to zero snowpack and what was there melted and ran off early leaving soil moisture levels at almost drought levels. This is leaving many producers wondering how to take advantage of high commodity prices while not

Pattison Liquid Systems has been developing and supplying the liquid fertilizer application market with distribution kits for over 40 years. From our fixed orifice systems to our variable rate application systems we have the kit required for todays seeding equipment. See our options below!

Today we are going to go over ball and socket maintenance on one of our tow behind Liquid Caddies.

So, this is our setup. We have a three-and-a-half-inch ball and there are two socket halves on top here. The socket halves sit on the ball and up inside this box. You are going to want to make sure that if you start to see any filings down on the frame, the box housing is starting to crack out or you cannot get to the grease nipples on the side here that you are going to want to pull thi

Almost all sales of sprayers in Western Canada today are comprised of High Clearance Sprayers. The pull-type market has seen a sharp decline with all of the features brought to you by High Clearance Sprayers. Self-Propelled applicators typically feature lots of power, large tanks, comfort and easy mobility from field to field. However, these features do come at a substantial cost to the farm: high capital expense, fuel consumption, added weight, and loss of efficiencies from higher infield tr

Western Canada has a short growing season which makes another pass for top dressing fertilizer sometimes difficult to achieve. Many crops have the fertilizer applied during the seeding season with Liquid Distribution Systems, (like these kits we make here). Often this will meet the crops fertilizer requirements for the whole season. Making one pass makes sense in a season that brings the right conditions. This saves an extra pass over the field and leaves the fertilizer where the plants need