Turns out, Dave Hedt, president and CEO of Walkabout Mother Bins, is not the only member of his family to build innovative farm equipment for harvest. “Back in the day” his father, Brian, and his uncle Max, built a machine to help Australian farmers “vacuum up” medicago ssp – an annual that’s a close relative of alfalfa and sweet clover. We’ll let Brian tell the story in his own words.
Breaking comfortable, hard-set habits formed during Covid confinement had guest blogger Brian Hedt considering his farming operations and how they once prided themselves on a planting and harvesting “systems approach” that may have just been a “comfortable farming operation habit.”
To help potential customers understand why there are no used Mother Bins for sale, unlike used grain carts, we provide some explanations.
This article is by guest blogger Brian Hedt. It contains his musings on equity, rewards gained with a Walkabout Mother Bin and letting those rewards flow on to loved ones.
"When is the price too high" is the second entry in our "Grain Handling Improvement and Life in General" series from guest...
This is the story of Otto, a cotton grower in Australia who, in the last decade, has been at the forefront of a revolution in his industry. And how North American farmers who can identify, and quantify, their last harvest bottleneck have the opportunity to increase their grain harvest operation — much like Otto did.