Insights and Stories on Machinery

Oct. 27, 2011 at 3:58 pm CDT

The owners of this website and its sister farm journals are branching out their ag information offerings from paper and cyberspace into the face-to-face world. Vancouver publishing firm Glacier Media announced Thursday it has bought Guelph-based Canada’s Outdoor Shows Ltd., operators of Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show and Canada’s Outdoor Equine […]

Oct. 26, 2011 at 4:33 pm CDT

A Saskatoon-area manufacturer of straw choppers for combines is “searching for a temporary home” after its plant burned down in a Monday morning fire. Redekop Manufacturing “suffered a catastrophic fire” starting at about 8:30 a.m. Monday at its plant on the Yellowhead Highway just northwest of the city, general manager […]

Oct. 25, 2011 at 7:01 pm CDT

The two main handlers of rail-dependent Prairie crops have moved slightly off their third-quarter mark in grain freight revenue, with CN’s rising and CP’s falling. Canadian National (CN) on Tuesday booked combined grain and fertilizer revenue of $336 million for its fiscal quarter ending Sept. 30, up six per cent […]

Oct. 24, 2011 at 6:00 pm CDT

The U.S. owner of ag equipment and snowblower maker Schulte has gone east for its next acquisition in the Canadian market. San Antonio-area manufacturer Alamo Group last week announced it has bought all the assets of Tenco Group, based at St-Valerien-de-Milton, Que., north of Granby, for C$6 million plus the […]

Oct. 24, 2011 at 4:00 am CDT

A Montreal-area group of companies making electronic control systems and software for livestock barns can soon expect to see its brands join the ranks of Massey Ferguson and Challenger as part of Agco. The Atlanta-based ag machinery giant recently announced plans to buy GSI Holdings Corp. from affiliates of Manhattan […]