Jeff Brown's Blogs

Jun 30, 2025

Is the J&M Inline Tandem Axle Grain Cart Right for You?

J&M's inline tandem dual-axle grain cart demonstrates how tires can work on larger grain carts that usually run on tracks.   If you’re dealing with wet field conditions or have serious compaction issues, tracks are the answer. However, not every farm needs to go to the extra expense. That’s why J&M designed a model that offers the mobility and maneuverability of tires plus better floatation than single-wheel carts can deliver – at a lower price tag than you’d pay for tracks. But that’s not all.    Steer in Reverse Unique Tandem Dual-Axle Benefits Steer in Reverse! The tandem in-line design...

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Jun 19, 2025

What You Need to Build Your Own Basic Fire Suppression Kit

If your property is in a potential wildfire path, we can help you create a firefighting suppression system with these five essential items. Tanks It’s helpful to have a nearby body of water to draw from, but if you don’t, we have storage tanks in several styles and sizes. Turtle Tanks, Low-Profile Tanks, 1250-gallon tanks. Mounted on your truck or trailer, they offer the benefit of mobility. Just check your payload capacity to make sure whatever you mount it on can handle the weight of the water you carry.   Stationary Tanks. If you’re drawing water from a lake, dugout, or...

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May 6, 2025

Bin Yard Automation Made Easy with Flaman

Automation Bin Yard When customers identify new issues, we pursue innovative solutions. It's how our Grain Systems team tackled mechanical problems like overloaded grain dryer motors or grain handling systems plugging. Inspired adaptation also helps customers resolve shortages of skilled help and scale bin yard operations with less trouble and expense. Installing new technology has presented a unique challenge. When farm wiring was more straightforward, a local electrician could handle it while our team installed bins, ladders, dryers, and other equipment. But new complexities can cause errors, downtime, and hours of troubleshooting busy farmers can ill afford. "We started thinking...

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Category: New Products


Mar 18, 2025

Three Ways Drone Technology Can Help Livestock Operations

Drones find and check livestock faster, with less animal stress.  Drones have a lot to offer cattle and sheep operations.  Here are three ways aerial observation, quick access to remote areas, multi-level zoom cameras, and thermal imaging can make livestock management much easier.   Keeping Tabs on Your Livestock On a cold, snowy day, how would you prefer to check your cows? Bundling up for a long ground search that ends with you startling your herd and having to search for them again.   Watching a broad aerial search on your remote control, easily finding your herd with thermal imagery, then...

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Mar 6, 2025

How a Rock Picker and Windrower in One Could Work for You

Schulte’s inescapable 1935 is like RoboCop for rocks. A single rock picker/rock rower unit sounds great, but can it pay for itself? Here’s how the Schulte RW-1935 Spartan Rock Picker Windrower answers that question.   Consider rising repair costs.  “Equipment likes to run, and rocks like to break down equipment. That’s nothing new,” says Kevin Kulak, Flaman’s Territory Manager for Alberta’s Peace Country. “Fifteen to 20 years ago, a rock getting into a combine might cause a few hundred to maybe a couple thousand damage. You mainly lost time. “But today’s equipment is intricately designed to run quicker with more...

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