Equipment, Machinery

John Deere builds a new home for rare talent

Posted on December 20, 2019 by Scott Garvey

Equipment, Machinery, Machinery Guide

AGCO adds to its Global Massey Ferguson tractor line

Posted on December 12, 2019 by Scott Garvey

Equipment, Guide Business, Machinery

Taking autonomy into the field

Posted on November 28, 2019 by Scott Garvey

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General, Machinery

Xplornet buys Ontario’s Silo Wireless

Deal includes rural wireless, fibre services

By GFM Staff 11 hours ago

Reading Time: 2 minutes Canada’s biggest rural broadband company has expanded its space in the southwestern Ontario market by buying internet and fibre-to-home provider Silo Wireless. New Brunswick-based Xplornet Communications, whose client list already includes over a million rural customers in all provinces, announced it has closed its deal to buy Silo for an undisclosed sum. The deal gives […] Read more

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Crops, Machinery

Subsidy for grain dryer upgrades in Alberta draws critics

By D.C. Fraser 2 days ago

Reading Time: 2 minutes Concerns are being raised over a new program for grain drying being offered to Alberta residents. The federal and Alberta governments recently announced Alberta farmers seeking to make grain dryer improvements will have access to funding through the Canadian Agricultural Partnership. The Efficient Grain Dryer Program aims to cover costs for energy efficiency improvements to […] Read more

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Crops, Machinery

Alberta program to cost-share grain dryer upgrades

Applicants under previous FEAP plan eligible

By Dave Bedard 5 days ago

Reading Time: 2 minutes Alberta plans to use federal and provincial funding to help grain growers cut the energy bills from grain drying with more fuel-efficient equipment. The provincial government on Friday announced what it’s dubbed the Efficient Grain Dryer Program, backed by $2 million from the Canadian Agricultural Partnership federal/provincial funding framework. Applicants can get 50 per cent […] Read more

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Crops, Machinery, Reuters, Weather

Drones to be tested against Africa’s locust swarms

U.N.'s FAO testing drones to detect, spray pests

By Nita Bhalla 5 days ago

Reading Time: 3 minutes Nairobi | Thomson Reuters Foundation — The United Nations is to test drones equipped with mapping sensors and atomizers to spray pesticides in parts of east Africa battling an invasion of desert locusts that are ravaging crops and exacerbating a hunger crisis. Hundreds of millions of the voracious insects have swept across Ethiopia, Somalia and […] Read more

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Crops, Machinery, Reuters

Canada to cut speed limits for trains hauling dangerous goods

New curb follows another Saskatchewan crash, fire

By David Ljunggren, Rod Nickel February 6, 2020

Reading Time: 2 minutes Ottawa/Winnipeg | Reuters — The federal government said Thursday it would impose temporary speed limits on trains hauling dangerous goods after a Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) crude oil train derailed and caught fire. The accident, which happened in the early hours of Thursday near Guernsey, Sask., about 40 km south of Humboldt, was the second […] Read more

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Crops, Machinery, Weather

Carbon tax an eight per cent hit on net income, APAS says

By GFM Staff February 6, 2020

Reading Time: 2 minutes The average Saskatchewan farmer can expect to lose about eight per cent of his or her annual net farm income to the federal carbon tax to 2020 — and 12 per cent in 2022, the province’s general ag group says. The Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan on Monday released new estimates on the financial impacts […] Read more

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General, Machinery, Reuters, Weather

Ford says emissions certification process under federal probe

By David Shepardson February 5, 2020

Reading Time: 2 minutes Washington | Reuters — Ford Motor Co. said Wednesday Canadian officials have opened a preliminary investigation into the automaker’s emissions certification process. Ford said in its annual report Environment and Climate Change Canada has opened a probe into the matter after the automaker disclosed early last year that the U.S. Justice Department had opened a […] Read more

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Crops, Machinery

Machinery costs driving up fixed farming expenses

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm February 5, 2020

Reading Time: < 1 minute MarketsFarm — Fixed costs on farms continue to rise year-over-year, a statistic largely attributed to increasing land values and interest rates. At the beginning of 2019, Farm Credit Canada (FCC) reported farmland values across Canada increased by an average of 6.6 per cent during the previous year. But that’s not the main driver of fixed […] Read more

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General, Machinery

Alberta farmers warned against oil well tampering

Advocate warns off 'reckless advice'

By GFM Staff February 4, 2020

Reading Time: 2 minutes Alberta’s Farmers’ Advocate Office (FAO) is warning any farmers and ranchers in dispute with resource companies over compensation for well sites not to go in and tamper with the taps. The FAO last week issued a statement reminding the public that “interfering with any oil and gas infrastructure or that of an electrical distribution utility […] Read more

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Crops, Machinery, Markets

CN conductors approve post-strike deal

By GFM Staff January 31, 2020

Reading Time: 2 minutes Canadian National Railway’s conductors and yard workers have voted for at least another two and a half years of labour peace with the company. The affected employees, members of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, voted 91.3 per cent to ratify a three-year contract with CN, retroactive to last July 23, the union said in a […] Read more

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