Tool Holsters are great on the farm

Sep 08, 2023

By Braxten Breen
Farms.com Cool Tools Intern

Staying organized is key to time management on a farm. It’s a great feeling when you are organized and all the chores that were planned for the day are complete.

Spider Tool Holster has a handful of tools that can make a farmer’s day-to-day life on the farm one step easier.

First is the Tool Dock which is convenient for the most frequently used tools. The self-tapping screws allow the farmer to easily mount the dock on a tool board, work bench or even a toolbox. Farmers will be able to grab the tool on the go with ease, and put away the tool without any problems, resulting in a clean organized tool environment, ready for the tool’s next use.

Farmers can say goodbye to cable management issues with Elastic Cable Straps, which also allow farmers to go hands-free while transporting cables around the farm. The elastic rubber in the straps allows you to quickly stretch the straps around the cables and lock it in place. Keeping the loops in the cables nice and tight, dissolving the issue of the loops falling apart constantly.

Everyone loves a handy Key Fob. Being farmers, they have piles on piles of never-ending keys from barns to machinery, to sheds, trucks, to their home etc. The Key Fob dangles from the belt, creating a secure feeling of the farmer’s keys. Spider’s Key Fob also has three built-in driver bit slots for extra convenience.

Those are just three of many products that Spider Tool Holster has covered in the video below with Jarrod and Shai demonstrating several products they carry that are handy on the farm.

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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