EMILI’s Innovation Farms powered by AgExpert is fertile ground for agtech companies to test and validate technology in their mission to make agriculture more efficient, and producers’ jobs easier.
Elmer’s Manufacturing has been working with EMILI over the past several seasons to validate three of these technologies and their components.
The HaulMaster 2300 is a grain cart with a 2300-bushel capacity, designed to reduce combine idle time, minimize travel across fields as well as soil compaction, and maximize harvest windows. Elmer’s has been testing two systems on the grain cart at EMILI’s Innovation Farms – a TerraWave track system that allows for stability and traction of various terrain, and a moisture sensor.
“We brought in a new moisture sensor, and needed to verify that it was accurate enough for producers to get value” said Rheal Boileau, product development manager with Elmer’s Manufacturing.
The Super 7 harrow bar has a seven bar design and is used early in the spring for seedbed preparation and in the fall to incorporate fertilizer or manage straw. Elmer’s Manufacturing benefitted from the feedback that they received from Innovation Farms during the 2025 season.
“Our harrow was operated at Innovation Farms and their team collected data on operating hours, fuel consumption, acres worked and more. With that data we identified the potential to quantify the ROI between larger and smaller harrows to help producers be more efficient” said Boileau, who noted that Elmer’s didn’t have defined outcomes for this project, but instead were looking to work with farmers who were good at providing feedback.
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