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WeatherFarm aims to boost service under new ownership

Reading Time: 2 minutes Prairie farmers can expect to see an “enhanced selection” of online weather and agronomic tools from WeatherFarm.com, following the recent transfer of the program to new owners. The network has been purchased from the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) through a new partnership between Glacier Media and agricultural meteorology firm Weather INnovations Inc., in the form […] Read more
Livestock, Machinery, Markets

Allflex sale cashes in on livestock control boom

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Reading Time: 2 minutes British private-equity firm Electra Partners is selling out of animal tagging company Allflex after 14 years, banking the rewards from ever stricter livestock controls prompted by a string of food scares. Electra said on Friday it has received a binding offer worth $1.3 billion from private-equity peer BC Partners, amounting to $630.5 million gross proceeds […] Read more
Crops, Machinery

Lower diesel prices trim grain freight rate index

Reading Time: 2 minutes A price index that helps set how much Canada’s big two railways can make per year hauling Prairie grain will be pared back, based on lower-than-expected diesel fuel costs. The Canadian Transportation Agency, which sets the annual Prairie grain revenue caps for Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Railways, announced Monday it has pegged the volume-related […] Read more
Crops, Machinery, Weather

CP books higher Q1 grain revenue on less grain

Reading Time: 2 minutes Higher grain and fertilizer revenues per carload trumped “challenging winter conditions” as Canadian Pacific Railway booked its highest-ever first-quarter (Q1) gross in the period ending March 31. Calgary-based CP on Wednesday reported a profit of $217 million on gross revenues of $1.495 billion in its latest Q1, up from $142 million on $1.34 billion in […] Read more
Crops, Machinery

MacDon reported seeking buyer via auction

Reading Time: 2 minutes Winnipeg’s MacDon Industries, one of North America’s largest manufacturers of windrowers, is looking for a buyer in a deal that could fetch around US$1 billion, four people familiar with the matter told Reuters last week. The family-owned company specializes in making pull-type and self-propelled windrowers and specialty and pick-up headers for combines. Its disc, auger […] Read more
Crops, Machinery, Weather

Cold, snow in West chill CN’s Q1 grain handle

Reading Time: 2 minutes Suffering congestion from “extreme cold and heavy snow in Western Canada” in its first fiscal quarter, Canadian National Railway (CN) has prescribed itself “capacity enhancements” on the Prairies. The company on Monday reported net income of $555 million on $2.466 billion in revenues in its first quarter (Q1) ending March 31, down from $775 million […] Read more
Livestock, Machinery

Cattlemen seek restart on approval process for irradiation

Reading Time: 3 minutes A long-dormant petition to allow ionizing irradiation as a way to control bacteria and other pathogens in Canadian beef may soon be back on the front burner. The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association said Monday it expects “in the coming week” to submit paperwork — at the request of Health Canada — that would “reactivate the process” […] Read more
Crops, Machinery

Pearce: “Dust-off” in pesticides has farmers’ attention

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Widespread concern about bees, and the possible connection to the use of dry lubricants and neonicotinoid insecticides, has been generating a number of responses in the agricultural community. For the past 18 months, media reports have singled out agriculture in general, and seed treatments and the use of insecticides in particular, as a possible cause […] Read more
Crops, Machinery, Markets, Weather

Eight Mississippi River locks to close due to flood

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Eight Mississippi River locks between Muscatine, Iowa, and Clarksville, Missouri, were expected to close beginning on Friday as the rain-swollen waterway rises above flood stage, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Thursday. Corn and soybean prices at Gulf of Mexico export terminals jumped by at least US10 cents a bushel as the closures of […] Read more

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