Swathing or windrowing of wheat, barley and oats were, at one time, the default operations that signaled the beginning of harvest. The primary purpose of swathing is to speed up and even out the dry ...

Swathing rape could be set for a bit of a comeback, thanks to an Essex contractor’s two-in-one swathing system. David Cousins explains. Thirty years ago, the usual way to harvest rape was to cut it ...

When it’s harvest time in Montana, T&S Swathing gets right to the fields. In fact, the brother and sister team, Tyler and Shelbi Frieling, immerse themselves in round-the-clock, no-stopping work, ...

This has been done in various other crops around the world like canola and in particular in this northern region for our millet crops. Millet can be notoriously uneven in maturity and even lodging ...

A new study from the Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute (PAMI) has found that straight cutting is a viable harvesting method for canola. PAMI, which is headquartered in Humboldt, Sask., carried ...

“Swath” is a little word that describes a chunk of territory. “Swathing” is the act of acquiring territory. Sometime “swathing” can be good. Napoleon for example, took over a large swath of Europe and ...