Insights and Stories on Machinery

Quebec’s UPA hit by ransomware attack

Aug. 17, 2022 at 9:20 pm CDT

Quebec’s overarching farmer organization, l’Union des producteurs agricoles (UPA), has confirmed its computer systems were hit by a ransomware attack earlier this month. UPA, in a release last Thursday, said it’s working with a cybersecurity firm to analyze the nature and scope of the attack, as well as any possible […]

CP arbitration ends in two-year deal for engineers, conductors

Aug. 15, 2022 at 8:45 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

John Deere updating 5-Series utility tractors

Aug. 11, 2022 at 4:19 pm CDT

By Glacier FarmMedia staff

Ford raises prices of electric F-150 amid high commodity costs

Aug. 9, 2022 at 5:52 pm CDT

By Reuters

Foxconn to build autonomous electric tractors in Ohio

Aug. 9, 2022 at 12:48 pm CDT

By Bianca Flowers

Deere & Co mower production to move from Iowa to Mexico plant

Jul. 29, 2022 at 3:21 pm CDT

Mexico City | Reuters – U.S. farm equipment maker Deere & Co DE.N will be moving production of mower conditioners, which are tractor attachments with rolling discs to cut and crush hay, from a factory in Ottumwa, Iowa, to an existing plant in Mexico over the next 18 months, the company said. […]

By Kylie Madry

CNH Industrial beats profit estimates, confirms outlook despite recession fears

Jul. 29, 2022 at 11:14 am CDT

Milan | Reuters – Agricultural and construction machine maker CNH Industrial CNHI.MI beat estimates on Friday with a 14 percent rise in industrial operating profit in the second quarter and confirmed its full year outlook despite bracing for a global recession. “Whether we face a global recession in 2023 is […]

By Giulio Piovaccari

Farmers, exhibitors hail Ag in Motion’s in-person return

Jul. 21, 2022 at 12:57 pm CDT

Attendance numbers at the first live Ag in Motion in three years are an indication that demand for outdoor farm shows is as high as ever, show director Rob O’Connor says. O’Connor said he wasn’t sure what to expect after momentum building during the show’s first five years was quashed […]

By Glacier FarmMedia staff

Glacier FarmMedia acquires Ag in Motion property

Jul. 20, 2022 at 4:40 pm CDT

The investors who helped secure the land that now hosts the annual Ag in Motion outdoor farm show have been given a gift that keeps on giving. At a presentation on Tuesday, the first day of the show’s 2022 in-person edition, Glacier FarmMedia — which owns the event along with […]

By Liam O’Connor

Feds boost Living Labs’ reach to all provinces

Jul. 14, 2022 at 8:28 pm CDT

The first crop of federally-funded “Living Labs” backed by the Agricultural Climate Solutions (ACS) program, set up to prove carbon-sequestering on-farm processes, takes the concept to the six provinces where such farm-level labs weren’t yet in place. Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, speaking Thursday in Calgary, announced $54 million from the […]

By Dave Bedard