Agriculture Machinery & Farming Equipment

Inventors’ Showcase at Ag Days highlights innovation

By Duncan Morrison January 12, 2018

Agriculture is a business where innovation is important. The farmers who selected and adopt the right technology at the right time tend to win out over time. Agriculture inventors know this and they’ll be front and centre at this year’s Ag Days through the annual Inventors’ Showcase. The event is also a crowd favourite too,[...]
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The new AmaSpot sprayers use sensors that can detect weeds and spray chemical only where needed, even at night.

Machinery, Machinery Guide

Amazone sprayers go high tech

Is this the next brand you should look at in sprayers?

By Scott Garvey January 9, 2018

Reading Time: 4 minutes There’s no shortage of short-line ag implement manufacturers, and in almost any of them, the corporate executives will tell you they are now playing in a crowded marketplace. But the head of Germany-based Amazone is more bullish, saying his firm has the recipe for growth, and that he’ll be able to continue finding new markets[...]
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Over 250 people came out to a November 2017 meeting east of London, Ont. hear about the impact of a high-speed rail corridor going through their communities. (John Greig photo)

General, Machinery

Ontario farmers want voice on high-speed rail

By John Greig January 9, 2018

Reading Time: 4 minutes Ontario farmers and rural residents want a place on the advisory board on the creation of a high-speed railway line expected to significantly affect their farms and communities. The province has appointed business, municipal and indigenous groups to the board, but farm organizations, such as the Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA), are calling for representation[...]
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Ford expects its 3.0-litre Power Stroke diesel engine to provide drivers with highway fuel efficiency of 30 miles per gallon on its 2018 F-150 diesel pickup. (Ford.ca)

General, Machinery, Reuters

Ford to launch diesel truck to grab fuel economy edge

By Joseph White January 9, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes Detroit | Reuters — Ford Motor Co. plans this spring to offer a diesel engine version of its best-selling F-150 pickup truck, looking to gain a marketing edge as its main rivals ramp up more efficient pickups of their own. Ford executives said they expect the F-150 diesel model with a 10-speed transmission to achieve[...]
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Ben Voss, president and CEO for Morris Industries Ltd.

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Ben Voss of Morris Industries

Learning to do your own laundry — and other stepping stones on the path to business leadership and success

By Laura Laing January 5, 2018

Reading Time: 6 minutes Learning how to do your own laundry? Learning how to fail? They may sound like an odd combination and an even odder recipe for business leadership and success, but according to Ben Voss, shareholder and newly appointed president and CEO for Morris Industries Ltd., they’re essential for understanding how he got to where he is[...]
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A Farm King CX2 grain auger. (Farm-King.com)

Crops, Machinery

Equipment firm Buhler’s year-end ledger improves

By Country Guide Staff December 31, 2017

Reading Time: < 1 minute Improved sales in the North American market have helped push the 2017 results for Canadian farm equipment maker Buhler Industries back into the black. The Winnipeg-based company, which makes Versatile tractors and Farm King implements, on Friday booked year-end net income of about $500,000 on gross revenue of $312 million, up from a $2.7 million[...]
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Crops, Machinery

CN, CP roll over revenue caps for 2016-17

By Country Guide Staff December 22, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes Canada’s big two railways have both overshot the maximum revenue they’re allowed to keep for ferrying the 2016-17 grain crop off the Prairies. The Canadian Transportation Agency on Thursday issued its annual determination of how much, if any, revenue Canadian National Railway (CN) and Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) made over their maximum grain revenue entitlements[...]
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Professor Dr. Hans Griepentrog of Hohenheim University in Germany presented his views on the “digitization” of agriculture at a September press conference ahead of the 2017 Agritechnica show.

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The 80 per cent solution

Automated equipment and big data will go a long way in agriculture, but not the whole way

By Scott Garvey December 21, 2017

Reading Time: 5 minutes At an official dinner prior to Agritechnica in Germany, I had the good fortune to be seated next to one of the conference’s guest speakers, Dr. Hans Griepentrog. He heads up the School of Agricultural Technology at Hohenheim University in Germany, and his vision of farming technology is definitely a futuristic one. Over dinner, I[...]
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Crops, Machinery, Reuters

Railway CEO Hunter Harrison, 73

By Christian Plumb December 18, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes New York | Reuters –– CSX Corp. CEO Hunter Harrison has died, the U.S. freight railway operator said on Saturday, just a few days after announcing that the veteran rail executive it hired earlier this year to boost its profits had taken a medical leave of absence. Harrison, 73, died “due to unexpectedly severe complications[...]
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Missing equipment found on a rural property southwest of Saskatoon in 2016 was valued at over $1.2 million. (Photo courtesy Saskatoon RCMP)

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Machinery

No prison for Saskatchewan rancher over stolen farm equipment

By Country Guide Staff December 15, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes A western Saskatchewan rancher who pleaded guilty in August to charges over the discovery last year of missing tractors, balers and other farm equipment will serve time outside the prison system, Saskatoon media reported Friday. Iain Stables, now 40, was sentenced Friday in Provincial Court in Saskatoon to a conditional term of two years less[...]
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