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Prince Rupert to boost container handling capacity

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Vancouver | Reuters — Maher Terminals Holding Corp. said Tuesday it would boost container-handling capacity by more than half at the Port of Prince Rupert, under an expansion of its container terminal at the northern British Columbia port. The Fairview Container terminal will be expanded to more than 1.3 million 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs) per […] Read more
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Crops, Machinery, Markets

CP’s shopcraft staff ratify new labour deal

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Repair, maintenance and locomotive and rail car inspection staff at Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) have voted to ratify the last-minute deal that kept them off the picket line. The 1,625 unionized workers, represented by Unifor’s CP shopcraft bargaining unit, voted 79 per cent in favour of their four-year deal at membership meetings over the past […] Read more
Crops, Machinery

CN building bypass around derailed oil cars

Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters/Staff –– Canadian National Railway’s westbound and eastbound trains are taking wide detours around a derailed train on its main line in northern Ontario while the company builds a bypass for traffic near the crash site. The CN train carrying crude oil that derailed early Saturday near Gogama, Ont., about 100 km south of Timmins, […] Read more
Crops, Machinery

Sask. backs new northeastern shortline

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Reading Time: < 1 minute A Canadian National Railway (CN) spur line in northeastern Saskatchewan, set to become the province’s 14th shortline this spring, has picked up provincial financing. The provincial government on Wednesday announced an interest-free loan worth about $550,000 for Kinistino-based Northern Lights Railroad to buy 59 km of track from Melfort west to Birch Hills on CN’s […] Read more
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Crops, Machinery, Markets

Rail problems continue as Prairie ag groups tackle CTA review

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Reading Time: 3 minutes CNS Canada — Better data, equitable service regardless of where you live and service contracts with teeth are just some of the ideas being tossed around by Prairie farm leaders taking part in the Canadian Transportation Act review. “Producers want to see equitable service for everyone,” said Norm Hall, chairman of the Agricultural Producers Association […] Read more
Sister brands New Holland and Case IH are offering certified pre-owned warranties on certain used equipment in Canada and the U.S., such as New Holland’s T8 435 tractor and CR combine shown here. (New Holland photo)
Crops, Machinery

Case IH, New Holland launch pre-owned certification

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNH’s Case IH and New Holland farm equipment divisions have launched their own Certified Pre-Owned (CPO) programs, allowing farmers in Canada and the U.S. to buy eligible used late-model combines and tractors with warranty coverage. For Case IH, the CPO program announced Friday will provide buyers with warranties and financing on pre-owned late-model Steiger and […] Read more
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Canola, Crops, Machinery, Markets, Reuters, Soybeans

ADM cuts biodiesel output as industry hit by weak margins

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Winnipeg/New York | Reuters — Archer Daniels Midland , one of the world’s top biofuels producers, has slowed North American biodiesel output, the latest sign the industry is battling uncertainty over U.S. renewable fuel policy while the oil rout curbs demand. The Chicago-based agri business has “temporarily” shifted production at its Velva, N.D. oilseeds processing […] Read more
It isn’t about bigger or smaller equipment, says farmer Henry Holtmann. It’s all about how efficiently you farm.
Crops, Machinery

Data collection, integrated systems are the changing face of farm equipment

Precision farming is giving more farmers the power to control how many acres they need to crop

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Reading Time: 5 minutes The colours of agriculture are changing. Today a trade show is a patchwork — three shades of green, several types of red, the standard blue and even some yellow. But farmers aren’t just looking at the colour of the paint when they shop for tractors and implements these days. According to Henry Holtmann, vice-chair of […] Read more

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