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Livestock, Machinery, Reuters

Alberta to back new renewable energy capacity

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — The Alberta government said Tuesday it will support the creation of 5,000 megawatts of additional renewable energy capacity by 2030 to help achieve goals laid out in its climate plan last year. Shannon Phillips, Minister of Environment and Parks, said Alberta now has a firm target of 30 per cent of electricity used […] Read more
Lemken’s new Azurit 9 planter is being introduced in Europe this year. The brand expects to offer a 16 row version in Canada in 
the future.
Machinery, Machinery Guide

Lemken gets strategic

German company puts its focus on building a wider range of machinery for Canadian farms

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Missouri may call itself the “Show Me” state, but in my experience, farmers demonstrate more of that “prove it to me” trait more than any other group — and for good reason. Over the decades they’ve heard machinery manufacturers make a lot of claims about the capabilities of their machines. Most of the claims turn […] Read more
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Crops, Machinery

Diesel prices look to settle in for fall, early winter

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — Canadian diesel prices appear to be settling in for a relatively uneventful autumn, according to an industry watcher. “Unless we get a vortex kind of winter, when a lot of diesel is used for heating purposes, I think it’s another cheap autumn-winter scenario shaping up,” said Tom Kloza of the Oil Price […] Read more
Case IH adds to its AFS Connect product line.
Machinery

Case IH offers new guidance products

Dealer-established RTK network, easier data transfer and retrofit auto-steer packages

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Case IH announced early this year it is adding three new products and services to its AFS Connect product line. First, it will establish a network of dealer-supported RTK base stations across Canada and the U.S. This cellular-based guidance correction signal will be available via subscription through local dealers. The brand expects this network will […] Read more
Robert Ciecko, vice-president of Hesston manufacturing, discusses the assembly procedure for these Massey Ferguson swathers while guiding journalists through the hay tool and combine assembly plant.
Machinery

The four Ms get down to work

AGCO’s Robert Ciecko shares his strategy for winning with lean manufacturing in agriculture

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Reading Time: 5 minutes While touring the assembly lines at AGCO’s huge combine and hay-tool plant at Hesston, Kansas, I admit I stopped counting how many workers were greeted by name by Robert Ciecko as he guided our group. But I didn’t stop being impressed by how, at virtually every station, waves came from the workers, or at least […] Read more
The 428 horsepower Kirovets K744 joined the MTZ tractor line in Canada in June. Base price for this tractor is just US$198,000.
Machinery, Machinery Guide

A new Tier 3 tractor

MTZ Equipment adds the aggressively priced, high-horsepower Kirovets tractors to its lineup

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Any farmer who’s ever worn a hat with a machinery-brand logo on it has likely heard of Belarus tractors, although that doesn’t mean all those farmers ever believed that Belarus really measured up to the top-selling North American-built machines, whether in green, red, blue or yellow. That’s fair enough, because right from their introduction to […] Read more
(AutonomousTractor.com)
Crops, Machinery, Reuters

Farm tech investment drops off after record year

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — Investor backing for agriculture technology startups cooled in the first half of 2016 after record global investment last year, according to industry data released on Monday. Funding from venture capitalists and others totaled US$1.8 billion through the first six months of the year, down 20 per cent from a year earlier, while the number […] Read more
(CrescentPointEnergy.com)
Crops, Machinery, Reuters

Crescent Point pipeline leaks into Saskatchewan field

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Reuters — A Crescent Point Energy pipeline in southwestern Saskatchewan leaked 100 cubic metres (630 barrels) of oil emulsion on Tuesday, a government official said on Wednesday. The spill happened on land near Pennant, about 45 km northwest of Swift Current, and did not affect wildlife or water that bears fish or is used for […] Read more

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