Grain is grown worldwide
 Principal food for humans
 Principal food for domesticated animals
(cattle, hogs, poultry)
 7 Million modern grain farmers worldwide
Cereal Crops
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Wheat
Oats
Barley
Rye
Corn
Rice
Many
others
Oil Seed Crops
 Canola
 Soybeans
 Flax
 Many
others
World Harvesting Methods
WHOLE 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 Methods
COMBINE
 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
The McLeod Harvest System
NO MORE LABOUR
NO MORE LABOUR
NO MORE TIME
NO MORE TIME
NO MORE RISK
NO MORE RISK
THAN COMBINING
THAN COMBINING
GREATER FIELD VALUE
GREATER FIELD VALUE
INCREASED EQUIPMENT EFFICIENCY
INCREASED EQUIPMENT EFFICIENCY
McLeod Harvest System
Farm Economics
Rate of Return of Combine and McLeod Harvest Wheat Crop
250
Rate of Return (%)
200
150
McLeod
100
Combine
50
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Farm Size (acres)
 Millings can be used by farmer or sold – significant revenue increase
 Reduces input costs – herbicides
 Reduces labour – saves baling and bale handling
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
Potential
North 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
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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
Murray Mulllin, Cartwright, Manitoba
Alex Bickley, Sylvan Lake, Alberta
Clay Cory (bottom rt.), Wawanesa, Manitoba
Lorne and Linda Hayward, Virden, Manitoba
Lynn and Dean Grant,
Val Marie, Saskatchewan
Richard Seatter, Dapp, Alberta
Rod and Graham Pusch
Windthorst, Saskatchewan
Randy Radau, Bowden, Alberta
Cy and Patrick Skinner, Provost, Alberta
Harold Solick, Lacombe, Alberta
Alan Whitrow
Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan