Harrington Seed Destructor - Harrow, ON

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Vendor Name and Address: 
de BRUIN ENGINEERING PTY LTD
255-261 COMMERCIAL STREET WEST
SOUTH AUSTRALIA 5290
PO BOX 52
Australia
5290
Nature of Requirements: 
Harrington Seed Destructor - Harrow, ON

01580-150037/A
Mack, Wayne
Telephone No. - (306) 975-4004 (    )
Fax No. - (306) 975-5397

To supply one (1) Harrington Seed Destructor (HSD) machine unit
and associated essential installment equipment (to interface
with a combine harvester), which includes a cross auger and
trough, slinger fan, swivel coupling, flexible high abrasion
resistant hose, tow hitch, square to round transition piece, and
drop out chute for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada,  Harrow,
ON. Delivery is desirable by 31 October 2014.

	
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:  
The HSD unit and associated installation equipment are required
to determine the effectiveness of harvest weed seed destruction
in the chaff fraction of crop residue (emitted by a combine
harvester) on reducing the soil weed seed bank, as part of an
Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) Science and Technology
Branch project involving research scientists and biologists from
across Canada. The equipment is critical to achieving research,
development, and analysis (RDA) deliverables from this
management-solicited project, and will significantly advance
herbicide-resistant (HR) weed management in field cropping
systems nationwide. Crop production is threatened from the
increasing occurrence of HR weeds, particularly
glyphosate-resistant (GR) and multiple (mode of action)
-resistant populations. The majority of Canadian growers are now
challenged with HR weeds. Non-herbicidal weed management tools
are needed for sustainable control of GR and multiple-resistant
weeds in Canada. In Australia, the HSD is a cage mill-based
chaff processing unit that destroys most weed seeds exiting the
combine harvester (>95% when evaluated in fields of wheat,
barley, and lupin). The apparent ability of the HSD to
effectively intercept weed seed inputs without interfering with
commercial grain harvest represents a significant technological
advance for the grain production industry. With the increasingly
limited herbicide options in cereal, oilseed (soybean, flax),
and pulse crops, the lack of new herbicides introduced in the
past 20 years, and the increasing incidence of GR and other HR
weed populations in these crops, we need to evaluate the
effectiveness and efficiency of harvest weed seed management by
means of this critical tool under Canadian climatic and
agronomic conditions.
	
Business Objectives
The AAFC Science & Technology action plan aims to align science
resources and activities to help Canada's agriculture, agri-food
and agri-based products sector, increase its environmental
sustainability, compete in markets at home and abroad, manage
risk, and embrace innovation. The equipment is critical to RDA
addressing the AAFC business objective of enhancing
environmental performance of the Canadian agricultural system.
GR weeds are a recognized threat to sustainable crop production
and to the agroecosystem, with a high impact for Canada. Growers
in 2013 found control of GR weeds to be difficult. Reversion to
tillage (which is already occurring) leads to increased soil
erosion, reduced carbon sequestration, and increased greenhouse
gas emissions. Where GR weeds occur, herbicide use has
increased, with greater adverse environmental impact. Knowledge
gained while completing the project objectives will
significantly mitigate these adverse environmental impacts by
improving existing recommended practices for proactive and
reactive GR weed management.
	
	
	
SOLE SOURCE JUSTIFICATION:  
de Bruin Engineering Pty Ltd. is the sole licensed manufacturer
and distributor of the HSD. This machine represents the only
commercially-available technology globally with the ability to
destroy the viability of weed seeds in commercial field harvest
operations (besides windrow burning, which is environmentally
unacceptable). The machine has now been evaluated over multiple
growing seasons in Western Australia, and has demonstrated its
stated ability to destroy weed seeds as evident in peer-reviewed
scientific papers. Because the prime focus of the project is the
evaluation of the efficacy of harvest weed seed management to
mitigate the proliferation and spread of GR weeds in western and
eastern Canada, the AAFC project (ending 31 March 2017) cannot
proceed without this vital equipment. There are no alternative
available means (technologies) for achieving project objectives. 


No other commercially available technology has >95% weed seed
destruction efficacy when used during commercial harvest of
major grain crops (wheat, barley, and lupin), as verified by
independent peer-reviewed research.

Total Estimated Cost: CDN $243,741.87 


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