Insights and Stories on Machinery

Saskatchewan budget aims to spur ag investment

Mar. 23, 2022 at 8:08 pm CDT

Sweetening existing tax credits on big-ticket investments, and setting up a new Crown corporation to support Indigenous investors, are among the items expected to help encourage new value-added ag projects in Saskatchewan’s latest budget. Provincial Finance Minister Donna Harpauer on Wednesday released her 2022-23 budget with $17.6 billion in expenditures […]

Stellantis’ battery plans take shape in Italy, Canada

Mar. 23, 2022 at 2:49 pm CDT

By Giulio Piovaccari Steve Scherer

Fuel prices may remain high beyond Russian invasion, expert says

Mar. 22, 2022 at 4:52 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Farming behind the lines in Ukraine

Mar. 17, 2022 at 7:42 pm CDT

By Ihor Pavliuk

Spring road bans coming into effect across Prairies

Mar. 15, 2022 at 12:34 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

CP conductors vote in favour of mid-March strike action

Mar. 3, 2022 at 4:27 pm CST

Unionized conductors and train and yard service staff with Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) have voted in favour of strike action which could begin as early as March 16. The Teamsters Canadian Rail Conference – Conductors, Trainpersons and Yardpersons (TCRC-CTY) announced Monday that a strike vote it conducted through February went […]

By Dave Bedard

Ag equipment firm Buhler Industries shakes up board table

Mar. 2, 2022 at 8:35 pm CST

Board oversight of Winnipeg farm equipment manufacturer Buhler Industries will now include another of the company’s upper managers, as a co-owner of the company’s Russian parent firm and the company’s founder both step down. Buhler’s board announced Wednesday it has accepted the resignation of Konstantin Babkin, the president and co-owner […]

By Dave Bedard

Engine maker Cummins says expects ‘some impact’ in Russia

Feb. 28, 2022 at 5:26 pm CST

Reuters — Diesel engine maker Cummins Inc. expects “some impact” to its business in Russia and is analyzing and preparing for current and anticipated sanctions, the U.S. truck engine maker said in an e-mailed statement on Monday. Many firms have idled operations in Russia after it invaded Ukraine last week, […]

By Bianca Flowers

Equipment maker Buhler distances self from Ukraine invasion

Feb. 24, 2022 at 3:42 pm CST

A Winnipeg farm equipment manufacturer is distancing itself from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Buhler Industries, which manufactures the Versatile tractor line and Farm King equipment, is majority-owned by the Russian firm Combine Factory Rostselmash. That firm purchased an 80 per cent stake in Buhler in 2007 and boosted that to […]

By Staff

CNH sees revenues rising to 2024 on precision agriculture plans

Feb. 22, 2022 at 3:51 pm CST

Milan | Reuters — Italian-American vehicle maker CNH Industrial on Tuesday gave guidance for a total revenue growth of up to 24 per cent through 2024 as it presented a new business plan after spinning off its truck, bus and engine units. In a bid to focus on its higher-margin […]

By Reuters