Category: Farm Machines

Farmbots to the farms! »

By on Nov 15, 2011 in Farm Machines, Farm Technology, Urban Farming | 0 Comments

Robots for TechTuesday! Bots in the farms is pretty interesting in itself coz, well, they’re robots. Apparently commercial farmers are enamored with robots because they help address the farmers’ perennial problem of labor costs and labor availability. But you have to wonder though the sense of this as world population continues to increase which means [...]

Guidelines in using the Maligaya Flatbed Dryer »

By on Nov 11, 2011 in Farm Machines, Farm Technology | 0 Comments

FarmFriday has this to share to our readers who have installed the maligaya flatbed dryer or planning to install one. Here’s a few reminders from PhilRice: Check/monitor the temperature of drying air, air static pressure at the plenum, and grain depth when operating the dryer. When drying palay for seed purposes, the temperature should not [...]

PhilRice Machines to use biodiesel »

By on Sep 12, 2011 in Agricultural Researches, Climate Change, Farm Machines, Farm Technology | 2 Comments

Crossposting from PhilRice (they’re up again) this interesting news: Farmers can soon cut on fuel expenses as the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) tests the efficiency of its developed biofuel on machines. The plan is an offshoot of a recent lecture by Dr. Rico O. Cruz, an expert on biofuel from Oregon, USA, who promoted [...]

Managing your pigs with the LongArm »

By on Aug 5, 2011 in Farm Machines, Farm Technology | 0 Comments

Say you have a thousand head pig farm going, and you’re alone to do all the work. How would you herd your pigs from one place to another? Enter canadian pig farmer Mary Haugh. She came up with “The Longarm”, “a roller that dispenses a swath of red cloth–a sort of farm version of the [...]

Building a Biogas Plant to Supply a Farm Household »

By on Jul 22, 2011 in Farm Machines, Farm Technology, News Clippings | 0 Comments

Farm technology again for FarmFriday courtesy of FFTC Archives. This is a  concise howto on building  a small Biogas plant that can supply the energy needs of a farm household. This technology was developed by the Department of Agriculture and Forestry Extension, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam.read the full howto on Building a [...]

Multi-Purpose Paddy Sowing Machine »

By on Jul 15, 2011 in Farm Machines, Farm Technology, News Clippings | 0 Comments

FarmFriday is back again after a long rest and today we feature this machine  developed by the Department of Agriculture of Thailand. We got this from our friends over at FFTC. This machine attempts to resolve the following problem encountered using manual sowing “for a consistent spread, farmers have to constantly cast the seeds from [...]

Maligaya Flatbed Dryer Inquiries »

By on Feb 27, 2011 in DHRRA News, Farm Machines, Farm Technology | 2 Comments

To our readers who have been requesting for assistance in purchasing the maligaya flatbed dryer, here’s the updated contact details of the program manager in charge of the machines. Apologies for the bad links in our posts on maligaya flat bed dryer, it seems like PhilRice Online revamped their website and put in new permalinks [...]

Examples of mechanical dryers in Southeast Asia »

By on Aug 20, 2010 in Farm Machines, Farm Technology | 0 Comments

Farm Friday found this bit in the IRRI Knowledgebank about dryers that have gained popularity in usage in SEA. “The dryers featured here are not neccessarily the best technical solution but, because they are accepted by the users, they seem to offer a good compromise between drying cost and benefits in terms of higher quality [...]

PhilRice Farm Machines: MicroTiller »

By on May 30, 2010 in Farm Machines, Farm Technology, News Clippings, Technology | 2 Comments

By popular demand we will be posting again farm machines developed by government and research institutions in Southeast Asia. Again here’s PhilRice with their microtiller which is just perfect for small family farms and those starting out on mechanizing their rice farms.  Am not sure if this machine is the one designed also for use [...]