Agriculture Machinery & Farming Equipment

Omnitrax puts brakes on crude through Churchill

August 17, 2014

Reading Time: < 1 minute CNS Canada –– Omnitrax has announced it will not be shipping oil through northern Manitoba’s Port of Churchill after all. The Denver-based company, which owns the Hudson Bay port facility and rail line serving it, had expressed interest in the idea, but said Friday it had suspended plans to ship crude oil for the foreseeable […] Read more

Christian Jungmann, export sales  manager (l) and Laurent Letzter, Canadian sales manager.

Guide Business, Machinery

Meeting farmers’ needs with the right tool at the right time

German implement manufacturer Lemken bases its Canadian growth strategy on providing equipment tailored to local needs

By Scott Garvey August 14, 2014

Reading Time: 5 minutes This time the conversation was the opposite of what I’m used to. In the last few years it’s become common enough to hear North American machinery executives talk about how they’re going to get their share of the huge new markets in the emerging economies. But in May, I was at implement manufacturer Lemken’s factory […] Read more

Crops, Machinery

N.B. farm-plated trucks may haul for other farmers

By Country Guide Staff August 5, 2014

Reading Time: < 1 minute Farmers in New Brunswick driving farm-plated trucks will soon be able to use those vehicles to haul for farmers other than themselves. Public Safety Minister Bruce Northrup last week announced the province will tweak its Motor Vehicle Act to allow farm-plated vehicles to transport other farmers’ products. Previously, a farmer could only haul his or […] Read more

Machinery, Machinery Guide

CAN bus at your control

CAN bus technology is hardly new, but now it’s being perfected in farm machinery, opening up a world of great opportunities

By Ralph Pearce July 21, 2014

Reading Time: 5 minutes In precision agriculture, there can be a steep learning curve with the newest systems on the market. Planter clutches and variable-rate fertilizer systems have their intricacies, for instance, and it can take growers years to customize key components to fit their particular operations. Now, however, there may be help, based on a connectivity technology that […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Markets, Reuters

U.S. senators urge probe of report that oil companies blocked ethanol

By Ayesha Rascoe July 9, 2014

Reading Time: 2 minutes Washington | Reuters — Two U.S. farm-state senators on Wednesday urged federal regulators to investigate allegations raised by a biofuel trade group that the oil industry uses “strong-arm tactics” to prevent widespread use of higher blends of ethanol in gasoline. A report from the Renewable Fuels Association this week said major oil companies have discouraged […] Read more

A carinata crop in flower near Minton, Sask., about 120 km west of Estevan. (Photo courtesy Agrisoma Biosciences)

Beef Cattle, Crops, Machinery

Minogue: Feed option may put carinata in Prairie rotations

By Leeann Minogue July 9, 2014

Reading Time: 2 minutes Carinata is poised to become a more economical crop option for Prairie farmers now that the crop’s meal has the federal seal of approval. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency recently approved carinata meal as feed for Canadian beef cattle. Carinata is agronomically similar to mustard and canola — and according to Steve Fabinjanski, CEO of […] Read more

Crops, Machinery

Producer car application system going online

By Country Guide Staff July 4, 2014

Reading Time: 2 minutes Grain growers wanting to apply for producer cars will be able to do so online later this month. Starting Monday (July 7), farmers who administer their own producer cars, as well as producer car administrators and agents, can apply for an account in the Canadian Grain Commission’s new online producer car application system. On July […] Read more

Russian farm  equipment brands on display at  Agritechnica  in Germany in November.

Machinery

Return of the czars

Will the Putin effect hurt global ag equipment manufacturing?

By Scott Garvey June 30, 2014

Reading Time: 5 minutes Samuel Allen was blunt. “Today’s world is filled with uncertainty — fiscal, economic, and political uncertainty — that breeds extreme caution, disrupts thoughtful planning, and is generally bad for business,” the John Deere chairman and CEO wrote in the company’s 2013 annual report. Those words from December of last year now seem profoundly prophetic, given […] Read more

Hormel Foods, the makers of Spam canned lunch meat, introduced its Sir Can-a-Lot character in 2012. The use of the term “spam” to describe unwanted email is believed to be derived less from the product itself and more from a 1970 comedy sketch about Spam by British comedy troupe Monty Python. (Store.Spam.com)

General, Machinery

CASL Defenses, Part 1: Spam law to affect virtually every business in Canada

By Nelson Bennett June 26, 2014

Reading Time: 3 minutes New anti-spam regulations that go into effect July 1 will do more than prevent spamming within Canada by Canadian businesses. Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) is a catch-all net that covers all forms of electronic messaging, from email and newsletters to social media and software downloads. Businesses that don’t comply face fines of up to $10 […] Read more

General, Machinery

CASL Defenses, Part 2: The ifs, ands and buts of new anti-spam legislation

By Nelson Bennett June 26, 2014

Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s July 2 — the day after Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) came into effect. You’ve just started a new job. Your predecessor left behind a binder containing the business cards of clients. You start your day by sending out emails to the addresses on those cards to introduce yourself and to ask if you can […] Read more

Daily Network News

Russian grain ship believed sunk in Ukrainian drone attack found, towed to shore, TASS says

Striking JBS workers to return to Colorado plant on promise of talks

Canadian finance minister talks supply chain integrity, pork tariffs with Chinese vice premier