Insights and Stories on Machinery

Nov. 17, 2011 at 2:58 pm CST

Saskatchewan’s highways department will hold off as long as possible on allowing heavier truck weights to travel the province’s secondary highways. The province can open applicable highways to heavier winter weights starting any day between Nov. 16 and Dec. 1, but due to the mild fall, the roads’ structures aren’t […]

Nov. 14, 2011 at 2:03 pm CST

Revised, Nov. 15 — Agrifood giant Archer Daniels Midland has stopped studying and started moving on plans for a biodiesel production plant next door to its canola crushing plant at Lloydminster, Alta. ADM on Monday confirmed it will build a 265 million-litre capacity plant at the Alberta/Saskatchewan border city, having […]

Nov. 14, 2011 at 12:00 am CST

Agrifood giant Archer Daniels Midland has stopped studying and started moving on plans for a biodiesel production plant next door to its canola crushing plant at Lloydminster, Alta. ADM on Monday confirmed it will build a 265 million-litre capacity plant at the Alberta/Saskatchewan border city, having studied the idea since […]

Nov. 10, 2011 at 6:34 pm CST

The guest list has now been drawn up for a federally-convened working group to discuss ways of improving the grain transportation chain in Western Canada. The Crop Logistics Working Group, announced Monday by federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz but unnamed until Wednesday, will see representatives from 13 industry bodies convene […]

Nov. 9, 2011 at 5:57 pm CST

The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association’s Beef InfoXchange System (BIXS) has rolled out an online cattle sales listing service for the system’s registered participants. The new BIXS Cattle-Classifieds system is expected to provide registered producers with an additional free-of-charge platform for "building potential business relationships to bolster their marketing program for their […]