Insights and Stories on Machinery

Dec. 5, 2011 at 3:38 pm CST

Production increases and the re-opening of the Suncor refinery plant in Edmonton may soon provide relief from the headaches Western Canada’s diesel shortage have given farmers and truckers in recent weeks. Ted Stoner, vice-president of the western Canadian division of the Canadian Petroleum Products Institute, said problems with western Canadian […]

By Adam Johnston

Dec. 2, 2011 at 6:08 pm CST

A company set up to develop a commercially viable way of using Prince Edward Island beets as an ethanol feedstock has been backed to build a demonstration-scale processing plant. Atlantec BioEnergy Corp., which for years has spearheaded a beet ethanol plan, on Friday was confirmed as receiving $340,512 from the […]

Dec. 2, 2011 at 5:24 pm CST

A Nova Scotia trucking firm specializing in fruit and other refrigerated produce has been bought up by an expansion-minded neighbour. Clarke Road Transport, the full-load trucking arm of Halifax investment firm Clarke Inc., announced Thursday it had bought Select Transport Inc. of Windsor, N.S. from J.W. Mason and Sons for […]

Dec. 2, 2011 at 6:30 am CST

The Ontario civil servant soon to become the province’s top bureaucrat for agriculture is already running a review of a program that contracts farmers and others to help feed the hydro grid. Fareed Amin will replace John Burke as Ontario’s deputy minister for agriculture, food and rural affairs starting Dec. […]

Dec. 1, 2011 at 6:32 pm CST

Customers shipping grains by rail with Canadian Pacific may now cross northeastern Iowa on a family-owned shortline serving two corn ethanol facilities. CP on Thursday announced a trackage rights agreement with Iowa Northern Railway (IANR), a Cedar Rapids-based company whose lines connect Cedar Rapids with Cedar Falls and Mason City. […]