Insights and Stories on Machinery

Walmart’s LatAm delivery app Cornershop eyes Canada

Nov. 15, 2018 at 2:55 am CST

Mexico City | Reuters — Cornershop, a Latin American grocery delivery app being acquired by Walmart, plans to expand into Canada early next year as a test market for the U.S., an executive for the three-year-old mobile app said. Walmart is buying Cornershop, which offers deliveries in Mexico and Chile, […]

Self-checking field health mapping system launched

Oct. 31, 2018 at 9:31 am CDT

By GFM Staff

CN’s grain handle up in record quarter

Oct. 30, 2018 at 9:43 am CDT

By GFM Staff

Grain handle down slightly in record quarter for CP

Oct. 29, 2018 at 10:25 am CDT

By GFM Staff

Farm Forum Event under new management

Oct. 16, 2018 at 7:37 am CDT

By GFM Staff

Expanding E15 sales would have limited U.S. market impact, analysts say

Oct. 16, 2018 at 2:35 am CDT

Chicago | Reuters — The Trump administration’s plan to allow year-round sales of higher-grade corn ethanol would have limited impact on the depressed U.S. ethanol market, with record supplies and prices for the fuel hovering near the lowest in a decade, analysts said. President Donald Trump announced the decision last […]

By Michael Hirtzer

Trump raises ethanol use in gasoline, appeases farmers ahead of elections

Oct. 9, 2018 at 8:36 pm CDT

Washington | Reuters — U.S. President Donald Trump launched an effort on Tuesday to increase ethanol use in the nation’s gasoline pool, delivering a long-sought political victory to the nation’s Farm Belt and angering oil refiners ahead of November’s congressional elections. Trump announced the lifting of a ban on summer […]

By Humeyra Pamuk Jarrett Renshaw

AgriRecovery offered for B.C. wildfire costs

Oct. 4, 2018 at 7:48 pm CDT

British Columbia ranchers and farmers who lost pasture or cropland or had to move livestock out of the path of wildfires this year may be eligible for AgriRecovery funding. The federal and B.C. governments on Thursday announced a new AgriRecovery program worth up to $5 million to help defray “extraordinary […]

By GFM Staff

Trudeau takes Quebec dairy gamble to preserve big trade deal

Oct. 2, 2018 at 5:16 pm CDT

Ottawa/Montreal | Reuters — With his political future at stake, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will mount a charm offensive to placate dairy farmers who say he sold them out in order to win approval of a continental trade deal. Compounding Trudeau’s challenges in the influential province of Quebec, where […]

By Allison Lampert David Ljunggren

Canada, U.S. deal saves NAFTA as trilateral pact

Oct. 1, 2018 at 2:05 am CDT

Ottawa/Washington | Reuters — The U.S. and Canada forged a last-gasp deal on Sunday to salvage NAFTA as a trilateral pact with Mexico, rescuing a three-country, US$1.2 trillion open-trade zone that had been about to collapse after nearly a quarter century. In a big victory for his agenda to shake […]

By David Ljunggren Roberta Rampton