Insights and Stories on Machinery

Sep. 6, 2011 at 6:02 pm CDT

Grain and agrifood firm Parrish and Heimbecker has started work on upgrades that are expected to double storage at one of its elevators in eastern Saskatchewan. The Winnipeg company on Tuesday said it will put up seven large steel bins at its terminal at Quill Lake, about 60 km east […]

Aug. 26, 2011 at 2:05 pm CDT

DuPont’s Pioneer Hi-Bred seed business has picked up $1 million in provincial funding toward the cost of building a “state of the art” parent seed processing facility in southwestern Ontario. Pioneer announced in September last year that it planned a “multi-million-dollar” facility in the Morris-Turnberry area south of Wingham, about […]

Aug. 26, 2011 at 4:11 am CDT

A southern Manitoba man tilling his land Tuesday came up with a bit more than just the usual black soil, RCMP at Portage la Prairie report. RCMP in a release Tuesday said a 43-year-old man from the RM of Portage la Prairie came to the detachment office at about 3 […]

Aug. 23, 2011 at 5:02 pm CDT

Farmers in British Columbia can now apply for federal/provincial funding to help sort out how to fit renewable energy technology in their farm or food processing operations. The two levels of government last week released application forms for their Renewable Energy Technology (RET) Feasibility program, under which “in-depth” assessments are […]

Aug. 23, 2011 at 3:42 am CDT

The use of producer cars to ship wheat off the Canadian Prairies rose to near-record levels in 2010-11, the Canadian Wheat Board reports. Prairie farmers loaded 12,784 producer cars, overwhelmingly with board grains, during the crop year that ended July 31, down from the 2008-09 record of 12,934 but up […]