2. Grain is grown worldwide
Principal food for humans
Principal food for domesticated animals (cattle, hogs, poultry)
7 Million modern grain farmers worldwide

3. Oil Seed Crops Cereal Crops Wheat Oats Barley Rye Corn Rice
Many others
Canola
Soybeans
Flax
Many others

4. World Harvesting Methods
WHOLE CROP HARVESTING
Removes grain, chaff and stalk from field
Requires less herbicides
Biomass used for feed and animal bedding
Huge volume of material removed creates material handling problems

5. World Harvesting Methods
COMBINE
Replaced whole crop harvesting - less labour
Removes only the grain kernel from field
Spreads weeds - increased herbicide use
Wasteful - valuable biomass left in field

6. The McLeod Harvest System
Removes grain kernel and chaff from the field
Leaves straw in field
Grain kernels and chaff separated by a mill

7. The McLeod Harvest System
Produces two products:
(1) Grain
(2) Valuable animal feed
Removes weed seeds from the field

8. The McLeod Harvest System
NO MORE LABOUR
NO MORE TIME
NO MORE RISK
THAN COMBINING
GREATER FIELD VALUE
INCREASED EQUIPMENT EFFICIENCY
NO MORE LABOUR
NO MORE TIME
NO MORE RISK
THAN COMBINING
GREATER FIELD VALUE
INCREASED EQUIPMENT EFFICIENCY

9. McLeod Harvest System

10. Farm Economics
Millings can be used by farmer or sold – significant revenue increase
Reduces input costs – herbicides
Reduces labour – saves baling and bale handling

11. Research 10 years – $12 million invested
Engineering involved: hydraulics, pneumatics, mechanical, electronics
Science: weed science, feed science, crop science

12. The World’s Premier Harvesting System
More equipment value
More economics
Greater efficiencies

13. Potential North America 8,000 combines sold per year
1 million farmers harvest grain
World
70% of the world’s grain supply is harvested outside North America

14. The McLeod Harvest System
A revolutionary harvest system with world implications
The system works
The system is efficient
Economics are superior to the combine
The system’s integrity is established
The system is on the market
Margins are obtainable
A viable business is readily foreseeable
Experienced, committed management and staff

30. Don and Ken Armitage farm 1200 acres and have 130 beef cows in Miniota, Manitoba. The millings from the harvested crop is equivalent to about 700 round bales of hay. They no longer bale hay for winter rations.

40. Hacault Family, Bruxelles, Manitoba
Alex Bickley, Sylvan Lake, Alberta
Clay Cory (bottom rt.), Wawanesa, Manitoba
Murray Mulllin, Cartwright, Manitoba
Lorne and Linda Hayward, Virden, Manitoba
Lynn and Dean Grant,
Val Marie, Saskatchewan
Richard Seatter, Dapp, Alberta
Rod and Graham Pusch
Windthorst, Saskatchewan
Randy Radau, Bowden, Alberta
Cy and Patrick Skinner, Provost, Alberta
Harold Solick, Lacombe, Alberta
Alan Whitrow
Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan