Insights and Stories on Machinery

CONTEST CLOSED – Free to good home: Farm Progress tickets

Jun. 6, 2018 at 12:15 pm CDT

Editor’s Note, June 11, 2018: This contest is now closed. Thanks for checking out our websites and if you’re going to the show, have a great time and safe travels. Haven’t got your tickets yet for Canada’s Farm Progress Show? We might. Glacier FarmMedia, Canada’s largest publisher of newspapers and […]

U.S. biofuels deal reported to be delayed indefinitely

Jun. 5, 2018 at 8:50 pm CDT

By Reuters

Heavy factory, dealer discounts fuel U.S. truck price war

Jun. 4, 2018 at 1:55 pm CDT

By Paul Lienert

Deere sues Precision Planting, claiming patent infringement

Jun. 1, 2018 at 6:29 pm CDT

By Reuters

Canada to impose tariffs on U.S., challenge at WTO

Jun. 1, 2018 at 4:23 am CDT

By Allison Martell

Krone BiG X 680, 780 and 880 Forage Harvesters

May. 31, 2018 at 5:50 pm CDT

Recognized with two major Innovation Awards at Agritechnica – “Machine of the Year” in the forage harvester category and a Silver Innovation Award for its cab lift – Krone’s Cutting Edge Forage Harvesters are equipped with “cutting edge upgrades” says Tommy Jones, President and CEO of Krone North America. Some […]

By Staff

Deal in principle announced for Churchill railway, port

May. 30, 2018 at 8:54 pm CDT

The federal government has announced an “agreement in principle” which will see a new partnership fix up northern Manitoba’s washed-out Hudson Bay Railway and take over the mothballed Port of Churchill. Details of the agreement were slim at best in the government’s announcement Wednesday, except to say the buying group […]

By Staff

Strikes called off as unions, CP reach tentative deals

May. 30, 2018 at 3:28 pm CDT

Labour peace arrives Thursday morning at Canadian Pacific Railway, as the company and the unions for its conductors, engineers and signal maintainers have reached tentative deals. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Council No. 11, which represents about 360 CP signal maintenance staff, announced a tentative three-year deal with […]

By Staff

CP employees to walk the line Tuesday night

May. 27, 2018 at 5:01 pm CDT

Barring any last-minute deals, conductors, engineers and signal maintainers at Canadian Pacific Railway plan to be on strike as of 9 p.m. CT Tuesday. The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC), which represents about 3,000 CP engineers, and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), which represents about 360 CP signal […]

By Staff

U.S. biodiesel lobby drops effort to adjust tax credit

May. 25, 2018 at 8:54 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — The biggest U.S. biodiesel lobbying group has dropped its nine-year push to convert a US$1-per-gallon tax credit available to blenders of the biofuel into one for producers, the vice-president of federal affairs said on Friday. The tax credit benefits companies that blend biodiesel into fuel sold […]

By Michael Hirtzer Tom Polansek