Reading Time: 2 minutes Canadian harvest equipment maker MacDon Industries will make draper headers for Case IH Axial-Flow and New Holland combines for the major manufacturers to sell through their own dealer networks in the new year. Case IH and New Holland, both owned by CNH, said separately Thursday they have partnership agreements in place with Winnipeg-based MacDon to […] Read more
MacDon to make draper headers for Case IH, New Holland
Co-branded combine headers up for order next year
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
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
CNH to buy Raven Industries
Heavy equipment maker to pay US$2.1 billion for precision ag firm
Reading Time: 2 minutes The parent company behind Case IH, New Holland, Flexi-Coil and Steyr farm equipment is set to absorb a significant U.S. supplier of precision ag tech to its product lines and others. CNH Industrial on Monday announced a friendly all-cash agreement to buy up all shares in Sioux Falls, South Dakota-based Raven Industries for about US$2.1 […] Read more
CNH to work with Microsoft, Accenture on ‘smart’ vehicles
Reading Time: < 1 minute Milan | Reuters — CNH Industrial has set up a five-year collaboration with Microsoft and Accenture to help it to develop “smart” and connected industrial vehicles, the Italian-American vehicle and equipment maker said on Monday. The programme, part of CNH Industrial’s digital transformation plans, is expected to help the group “achieve significant revenue growth,” the […] Read more
Equipment dealer chain Rocky Mountain to go private
Publicly traded CNH dealer's top brass make offer
Reading Time: 2 minutes Canada’s biggest farm equipment dealership chain has made a deal to take itself private after almost 13 years on the TSX. Rocky Mountain Dealerships (RME) announced Monday it has an agreement in place with a numbered Alberta company controlled by CEO Garrett Ganden and board chairman Matthew Campbell, for 100 per cent of RME at […] Read more
New Holland ultra-dealer expands Saskatchewan reach
Mazergroup takes up Dave Marshall's three operations
Reading Time: < 1 minute Manitoba New Holland ultra-dealership Mazergroup is expanding its reach further into eastern Saskatchewan with a deal to buy three dealerships there. Brandon-based Mazergroup announced Tuesday it has assumed ownership of Yorkton New Holland, Raymore New Holland and Watrous New Holland, effective Sept. 1. The three operations’ dealer principal, David Marshall, had bought the former Bolt […] Read more
CNH Industrial replaces CEO, sticks with spinoff plan
Chairman Suzanne Heywood becomes interim CEO; CFO also leaving
Reading Time: 2 minutes Updated, March 24 — Milan | Reuters — The chief executive of CNH Industrial is leaving with immediate effect, the industrial vehicle maker said on Monday, less than two months after a profit warning. CNH said board chair Suzanne Heywood would replace Hubertus Muhlhauser as CEO until a permanent replacement was found. A source close […] Read more
CNH to list truck and bus business in break-up
Reading Time: 2 minutes Milan | Reuters — Industrial vehicle maker CNH Industrial has decided to split in two and list its truck, bus and engine division in an effort to boost asset values and streamline its businesses. The plan comes just six years after CNH Industrial was created when Fiat Industrial — spun off from the Italian carmaker […] Read more
CNH begins 3D-printing spare parts
Reading Time: 2 minutes In a twist on the idea of ordering parts online, the parent firm for New Holland and Case IH is trying out the use of 3D printing to make plastic — and eventually metal — spare parts. British-based equipment manufacturing giant CNH Industrial said Monday it has already produced its first 3D-printed spare parts, making […] Read more
Keeping the place up
Manufacturers offer new yard care machines for 2018
Reading Time: 3 minutes As the warm weather comes on, a job on every farm is to pull the yard care equipment out of storage and get it running again. If that’s getting to be a nuisance, you might want to look at some of the new offerings in the lawn and sub-compact tractor segments that manufacturers have introduced […] Read more
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