Upgrades to Avalanche 98 Series Grain Carts

Jun 12, 2024

Efficiency and Convenience Updates on Brent Grain Carts

Unverferth Manufacturing unveils the latest enhancements to its Brent Avalanche double auger grain cart series, designed to increase efficiency and convenience.

The 98 Series boasts several improvements, Andy Unverferth, director of marketing at Unverferth Manufacturing, told Farms.com. He noted a longer vertical auger for quicker unloading and a new rear access door for easier cleaning between crops.

Furthermore, you now have the option of adding a rear hitch, allowing you to tow a header transport simultaneously, making travel between fields much easier.

Available in sizes ranging from 1,100 to 2,500 bushels, the Brent Avalanche delivers impressive unloading speeds of up to 1,000 bushels per minute.

Its double auger design not only ensures stability in the field but also enables faster unloading thanks to the horizontal floor auger.

A standout feature of the Brent Avalanche is its pivoting vertical auger, allowing you to adjust its position effortlessly during loading and unloading.

The cart also features a standard four-way downspout for precise grain placement without the need for repositioning.

Equipped with the Equalizer track system, the Brent Avalanche offers track widths of 42 or 50 inches, along with a side-to-side camber design for optimal performance on various terrains.

Watch the video below to learn more about Brent’s Avalanche 98 Series.

Video: Spring 2026 weather outlook for Wisconsin; What an early-arriving El Niño could mean

Northeast Wisconsin is a small corner of the world, but our weather is still affected by what happens across the globe.

That includes in the equatorial Pacific, where changes between El Niño and La Niña play a role in the weather here -- and boy, have there been some abrupt changes as of late.

El Niño and La Niña are the two phases of what is collectively known as the El Niño Southern Oscillation, or ENSO for short. These are the swings back and forth from unusually warm to unusually cold sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean along the equator.

Since this past September, we have been in a weak La Niña, which means water temperatures near the Eastern Pacific equator have been cooler than usual. That's where we're at right now.

Even last fall, the long-term outlook suggested a return to neutral conditions by spring and potentially El Niño conditions by summer.

But there are some signs this may be happening faster than usual, which could accelerate the onset of El Niño.

Over the last few weeks, unusually strong bursts of westerly winds farther west in the Pacific -- where sea surface temperatures are warmer than average -- have been observed. There is a chance that this could accelerate the warming of those eastern Pacific waters and potentially push us into El Niño sooner than usual.

If we do enter El Nino by spring -- which we'll define as the period of March, April and May -- there are some long-term correlations with our weather here in Northeast Wisconsin.

Looking at a map of anomalously warm weather, most of the upper Great Lakes doesn't show a strong correlation, but in general, the northern tiers of the United States do tend to lean to that direction.

The stronger correlation is with precipitation. El Niño conditions in spring have historically come with a higher risk of very dry weather over that time frame, so this will definitely be a transition we'll have to watch closely as we move out of winter.