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GM’s CAMI assembly plant at Ingersoll, Ont. (GM.ca)
General, Machinery, Reuters

GM aims to tackle chip shortage with new designs

Chip-making investments to be in U.S., Canada

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — General Motors aims to tackle the global semiconductor shortage with new designs built in North America, president Mark Reuss said on Thursday. Reuss told an investor conference GM is working with seven chip suppliers on three new families of microcontrollers that will reduce the number of unique chips by 95 per cent on […] Read more
CNH Industrial, the parent company of Case IH and sister brand New Holland has a new CEO. We asked him about his vision for the company’s future and how that will affect the products that roll off the assembly lines in the coming years.
Guide Business, Machinery

CNH gets a new boss

Autonomous machinery is coming fast, but electrification not so much. Scott Wine, the new CEO in charge of Case IH and New Holland, sees a company in position to do business with a ton more farmers

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Reading Time: 6 minutes It’s a very, very big ship that Scott Wine has taken the wheel of, so earlier this fall, Country Guide sought an opportunity to interview the new CEO of CNH Industrial, the parent company of Case IH and New Holland. Wine took over last January, so he’s got his feet under him now and we […] Read more
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack speaks with striking workers at Deere’s Des Moines-area farm equipment plant at Ankeny, Iowa on Oct. 20, 2021. (File photo: Reuters/Scott Morgan)
Crops, Machinery

Deere’s striking U.S. workers accept revised offer

Operations to resume Wednesday night, company says

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Production and maintenance workers at 14 Deere and Co. plants are expected to return to work starting Wednesday night after voting to approve a new contract. United Auto Workers (UAW), which represents over 10,000 Deere employees in the U.S., said late Wednesday its members voted 61 per cent in favour of new six-year collective bargaining […] Read more
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack speaks with striking workers at Deere’s Des Moines-area farm equipment plant at Ankeny, Iowa on Oct. 20, 2021. (File photo: Reuters/Scott Morgan)
Crops, Machinery

Deere’s striking U.S. workers accept revised offer

Operations to resume Wednesday night, company says

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Production and maintenance workers at 14 Deere and Co. plants are expected to return to work starting Wednesday night after voting to approve a new contract. United Auto Workers (UAW), which represents over 10,000 Deere employees in the U.S., said late Wednesday its members voted 61 per cent in favour of new six-year collective bargaining […] Read more
(Deere.com)
Crops, Machinery, Reuters

Striking Deere workers set for crucial vote

Equipment maker mulling options

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Reuters — About 10,000 striking workers at Deere and Co. will vote again on Wednesday to approve or reject a modified contract proposed by the company, as the longest strike in more than three decades forces the world’s largest farm equipment maker to consider other options. Deere has not publicly commented on changes to its […] Read more
A John Deere tractor retrofitted with a Bear Flag Robotics autonomous system works a field in California.
Guide Business, Machinery

Deere’s technology breakthrough

In a major move, John Deere adds market-ready autonomy to its portfolio. Your chance to buy is coming soon

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Reading Time: 6 minutes At first, these two big deals seem very similar. In 2017 John Deere spent US$305 million to buy Blue River Technology, a firm that was developing artificial intelligence for agricultural robotics. Then, this past summer, the green brand announced it is bringing another tech firm into the fold, this time spending US$250 million on a […] Read more
UAW picketers march across the street outside of Deere & Co., makers of John Deere products, in support of employees on strike on Oct. 20, 2021, in Ankeny. Photo: USA TODAY NETWORK via Reuters Connect
Machinery, Reuters

Deere considers rejected offer its “best and final” as strike continues

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters – Deere & Co said on Wednesday its latest offer rejected by the United Auto Workers (UAW) union is the U.S. tractor maker’s “best and final offer”, adding that it will keep all options open as the workers’ strike continues. Workers at the Illinois-based company continued their three-week-old strike a day after they voted […] Read more
A CNH manufacturing plant at Sorocaba, west of Sao Paulo in southeastern Brazil. (Photo courtesy CNH Industrial)
Machinery, Reuters

CNH Industrial, Monarch Tractor agree on electrification technologies deal

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Milan | Reuters – CNH Industrial said on Wednesday it had entered into an exclusive, multi-year licensing agreement for electrification technologies with Monarch Tractor, a U.S company focused on fully-electric autonomous tractors. The deal marks a further step in efforts by the Italian-American vehicle maker to bolster its agricultural businesses, while preparing to spin-off its […] Read more
The Co-op Ethanol Complex at Belle Plaine, Sask. (FCL.crs)
Cereals, Corn, Crops, Machinery, Weather

Co-op to capture carbon at ethanol plant, refinery

FCL, Whitecap sign agreement to sequester fuel plants' CO2

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Reading Time: 2 minutes A major Prairie ethanol and fuel producer is posed to spend just over half a billion dollars on a system to capture and sequester carbon dioxide from its operations in Saskatchewan. Federated Co-operatives announced Thursday it had signed a memo of understanding with Calgary-based ‘clean energy’ company Whitecap Resources, in which the latter company will […] Read more
(Dave Bedard photo)
Crops, Machinery, Reuters, Weather

White House not ruling out a U.S. carbon tax

Option 'not off the table' despite Manchin comment

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Washington | Reuters –– The White House on Tuesday said it has not ruled out a carbon tax as a possible option for fighting climate change, even though U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, a critical holdout in the closely divided Senate, said he was not discussing the topic in talks about U.S. spending and infrastructure bills. […] Read more

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