This utility jug is no jerry can

Nov 17, 2023

Photo Credit: Risk Racing

Never fight with your spout again

By Braxten Breen
Farms.com Intern

Risk Racing assures you will “never fight with your spout again”, with their Premium Utility Jug Spout, Hose Bender Black Edition.

Traditionally spouts have been produced with plastic or PVC counterparts that normally tend to harden over time. Where recently the utility jug market has introduced a new material, HDPE rubber, as it’s been tested to maintain its softness and malleability.

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Spout features:

Consistent Bend:

- Enter and exit your equipment with the same bend in the spout resulting in no spillage

Stability Hook:

- Black hose bender keeps the bend stabilized by a hook at the end, maintaining it’s same position

Aluminum Cap:

- A CNC aluminum cap traps a nitrile rubber o-ring ensuring no leakage during transport

Hose Clamps:

- The black hose bender includes two custom molded hose clamps for an upgrade over the original ugly metal hose clamps

Universal Compression Fitting:

- The ¾” threaded hosed adapter offers a flange that traps the nitrile o-ring, which once again prevents leaks and spillage

So, if you’re tired of fighting the spout on your current jerry can and have had enough, Risk Racing’s spout will ensure you a fight-free day on the farm.

Video: Western Canadian Agriculture: Hard Times Made the World's Best Farmers

Western Canadian agriculture produced the most advanced farmers in the world not through abundance but through adversity. The crow rate fell. The wheat price went nowhere. The brown envelopes stopped.

When the subsidies disappeared, the bad farmers left and the good ones stayed. And the ones who stayed could not just grow wheat anymore. They started growing lentils and canola and peas and flax and faba beans. They built crop rotation. They got serious about agronomy because there was no government backstop. That process produced the Western Canadian agriculture Dennis Bulani describes in this clip: the most advanced, most educated farming culture in the world.

His contrast with Iowa corn and soybean farmers is sharp. At a DeKalb farmer meeting in Okoboji, Iowa, he asked what crop rotation they ran. Beans on corn stubble, corn on bean stubble. How do you fertilize? The co-op agronomist handles it. Have you considered other crops? No need. We make so much money on corn and soybeans. Western Canadian agriculture was never allowed that comfort. And now those Iowa farmers are watching soybean markets lock up with China and corn prices slide, and they do not have the agronomy knowledge or the research base to pivot. Western Canadian farmers adapted on a dime because they had done it before.

Dennis also makes the case that Western Canadian agriculture keeps adapting in real time. Low commodity prices over the past year have pushed growers to look seriously at precision spot-spray technology. He knows a neighbor who bought a sprayer with the seeing-eye system and sprayed only 80 out of 320 acres. As a chemical retailer Dennis acknowledges that will affect his sales. He supports it anyway, because if it advances Canadian agriculture and makes farmers money, that is a good outcome.

The lesson Dennis draws from the tale of two farms: continuous improvement is the only durable strategy. When canola was $22 a bushel some growers went to Arizona instead of the Crop Production Show. When the price came down those same growers came back to the research and the discipline. Products do not go on Rack Petroleum's shelves unless they pass a replicated trial first. That is what Western Canadian agriculture built through hard times: farmers who do the work whether the times demand it or not.

Dennis Bulani is CEO of Rack Petroleum and Ultimate Yield in Biggar, Saskatchewan. Dan Aberhart hosts GTF Productions, Western Canadian Agriculture's foremost live briefing platform and its foremost AI training platform for ag operators