Agriculture Machinery & Farming Equipment

Aerial view of Lac-Megantic after the July 2013 derailment and explosion that killed 47 people. (TSB.gc.ca)

Canada to set new speed limits on dangerous goods trains

By Reuters April 23, 2015

Reading Time: < 1 minute Updated April 25, 2015 — Ottawa | Reuters — Canada will immediately impose a new speed limit of 65 kilometres per hour for dangerous goods trains moving through urban areas with more than 100,000 people, Transport Minister Lisa Raitt said Thursday. This is one of many measures the Conservative government has introduced since the July […] Read more

Corn, Crops, Machinery, Markets, Soybeans

Brazil farm belt roads blocked in new trucker strike

By Gustavo Bonato April 23, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Sao Paulo | Reuters — Truckers in Brazil resumed roadblocks across the country’s main farm belt early on Thursday, after failing to reach common ground in talks with the government and freight companies in recent weeks regarding pay and fuel prices. Highway police on Thursday evening estimated that protesters had blocked roads at 17 points […] Read more

Crops, Machinery

Here come the farm robots

Robotic tractors are already in advanced field tests, and the results are producing great optimism

By Gord Leathers April 23, 2015

Reading Time: 5 minutes Phil Jennings of Kinze Manufacturing gets a big kick out of riding in their modified tractor when it’s hauling one of their grain carts during a real Iowa harvest. When the call goes out for the cart, the tractor starts chugging across the field to where the combine is working. Jennings just sits there and […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Markets, Weather

CN, CP book higher grain revenues in Q1

By Country Guide Staff April 22, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes A bump in gross revenue from grain handling helped to improve first-quarter results for both of Canada’s big two railways. Canadian National Railway (CN) on Monday reported overall net income of $704 million on $3.098 billion in revenue for the quarter ending March 31, up from $623 million on $2.693 billion in the year-earlier period. […] Read more

Machinery, Machinery Guide

PHOTOS: Mid-size tractors surprise with speed, efficiency

Machinery Guide: Massey Ferguson 8700 Series, New Holland 'Golden Jubilee' T7, New Holland Genesis T8 SmartTrax

By Ralph Pearce April 22, 2015

Reading Time: < 1 minute With the horses to tackle heavy-going conditions, yet fast and flexible enough to adapt to an amazing range of jobs on your farm, today’s so-called “mid-size” tractors are getting smarter by leaps and bounds, and more capable too. If you haven’t put a new model through its paces in the last two or three years, […] Read more

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Finance Minister Joe Oliver head to the House of Commons to deliver Tuesday’s budget. (Deb Ransom photo courtesy PMO)

General, Machinery, Markets

Oliver budget boosts capital gains exemption, trade funds

By Country Guide Staff April 21, 2015

Reading Time: 3 minutes A higher lifetime capital gains exemption on sales of farm property, accelerated capital cost allowance for food processing equipment and, further out, more money to boost agrifood exports are among the offerings for farmers in Tuesday’s federal budget. Federal Finance Minister Joe Oliver on Tuesday described his 2015 Economic Action Plan as “a balanced budget, just […] Read more

Guide Business, Machinery

A new farm show hits the Prairies

Ag in Motion will focus on practical demonstrations and field plots in Western Canada this summer

By Scott Garvey April 16, 2015

Reading Time: 5 minutes As a machinery editor, one of the places where I’ve come to feel most at home is in the aisles of a farm equipment show. I’ve logged many miles walking those aisles in the last few years. But I’ve also come to learn that those aisles aren’t all the same. Clearly, not all farm shows […] Read more

Industry Minister James Moore on a promotion visit for CETA

Machinery, Machinery Guide

Secret deals for agricultural equipment regulations

Free trade with the EU is supposed to offer a chance to standardize ag equipment regulations, but the talks are behind closed doors, and the industry is getting worried

By Scott Garvey April 13, 2015

Reading Time: 5 minutes During Agritechnica 2013 in Hannover, Germany, I was invited to an informal dinner with some representatives of DLG, the German Agricultural Society, which organizes the show. I ended up sitting next to DLG’s agricultural economist, so it was a perfect opportunity to discuss a variety of topics affecting farmers on both sides of the Atlantic. […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Markets, Reuters

U.S. EPA strikes deal on biofuel blending targets with oil groups

By Reuters April 10, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Washington | Reuters –– Oil refiners who have complained that U.S. federal regulators missed deadlines to issue rules on blending renewable fuels into the nation’s supply of gasoline and diesel fuel are set to get long-awaited targets from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Under a deal the EPA announced Friday with two oil industry groups […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Reuters

CN grain train derails near Calgary

By Reuters April 10, 2015

Reading Time: < 1 minute Reuters — Twenty-four grain cars on a Canadian National Railway (CN) train derailed northeast of Calgary on Friday morning without injury or dangerous goods involved, RCMP said. The derailment on the 104-car train took place near the village of Kathyrn and Highway 9, at 10 a.m. MT, RCMP from nearby Beiseker said in a release, […] Read more

Daily Network News

Canadian aquaculture should be classed as agriculture, industry groups say

CBOT Weekly: April supply and demand report a ‘nothing burger’

Canada blocks meats, dairy from Greece over foot-and-mouth disease

Machinery