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Michelin, Tereos aim to use crops to make rubber for tires

Reading Time: < 1 minute Michelin and Tereos have said they will join forces to develop a rubber derived from sugar beet, grain and waste that could replace some of the natural and oil-based synthetic rubber used in tires. They aim to build an industrial unit by 2020, said a spokesman for Tereos, the world’s fourth-largest sugar company. Michelin, one […] Read more
Crops, Machinery, Markets

Morriss: Cell companies bad, railways good?

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Just as there’s good stress and bad stress, there’s good excitement and bad excitement. There’s the good excitement you get when watching the Grey Cup, especially if you’re a Riders fan. Then there’s the other kind of excitement (as in riled up) you got watching this year’s Grey Cup commercials about how the Harper Government […] Read more
Crops, Machinery

SW Ont. Case IH dealer joins local chain

Reading Time: < 1 minute A southwestern Ontario chain of Case IH and New Holland ag equipment dealerships has expanded its reach with a Case IH dealership in a town where it already sells the New Holland line. Delta Power Equipment, which operates Case IH dealerships at Exeter, Forest and Seaforth, Ont., and New Holland shops at Essex and Watford, […] Read more
General, Machinery

Kubota makes play for Canadian hay tools market

Reading Time: < 1 minute Canadian hay growers in the market for new mowers, rakes or spreaders will see a new player on some dealer lots next year. The Canadian arm of Japanese ag equipment maker Kubota has announced it will launch a new line of Kubota-branded hay tools in Canada in 2014. Norwegian farm equipment manufacturer Kverneland, which Kubota […] Read more
Crops, Machinery, Markets

Mississippi River reopens after fuel spill

Reading Time: < 1 minute The upper Mississippi River reopened to vessel traffic near Le Claire, Iowa, late on Tuesday following a day-long closure triggered by a fuel leak from a tow boat that struck an underwater object and sank, the U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday. The river, which was closed late Monday from mile marker 493 to 501 about […] Read more
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Mississippi River still shut after fuel spill

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Reading Time: < 1 minute The Mississippi River remained closed to navigation along an eight-mile stretch near Le Claire, Iowa, on Tuesday after a boat containing up to 100,000 gallons of diesel fuel and lube oil struck a submerged object and sank late on Monday, the U.S. Coast Guard said. One northbound towboat with no barges and two southbound towboats […] Read more
Crops, Machinery, Markets

CWB takes direct stake in Prairie grain handling

Reading Time: 2 minutes The grain company formerly known as the Canadian Wheat Board has made its first hands-on play in the Prairie grain handling game. Winnipeg-based CWB on Tuesday announced an agreement to buy the grain handling and port terminal assets from the Soumat arm of Toronto’s Upper Lakes Group Inc. (ULGI) for an undisclosed sum. The deal, […] Read more
N.Y. investors buy Ont. tillage firm Salford
Crops, Machinery

N.Y. investors buy Ont. tillage firm Salford

Reading Time: 2 minutes Grown worldwide from its roots as a cultivator maker in southwestern Ontario, Salford Farm Machinery has now attracted Manhattan money. New York private equity firm GenNx360 Capital Partners, which bills itself as a backer of “middle-market industrial business-to-business” companies, announced Thursday it’s bought control of Salford for an undisclosed sum. Salford said its manufacture of […] Read more
Crops, Machinery

Deere sees Canada/U.S. ag equipment demand slipping

Reading Time: 2 minutes Lower commodity prices are expected to have a “dampening” effect on Canadian and U.S. farmers’ demand for new iron, green or otherwise, in 2014. Deere and Co., releasing its fourth-quarter and year-end results on Wednesday, predicted industry-wide sales for farm machinery in the U.S. and Canada will slip five to 10 percent in 2014 from […] Read more

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