Insights and Stories on Machinery

Monsanto product to deactivate dicamba residue in sprayer tanks

Apr. 25, 2018 at 8:59 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Monsanto is launching the first product that deactivates a controversial herbicide inside spraying equipment after it is used, the company said on Tuesday, its latest attempt to prevent unintended crop damage associated with dicamba. The new product aims to stop farmers from accidentally applying traces of […]

CTA to bump up Prairie grain freight cost index

Apr. 25, 2018 at 2:15 pm CDT

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Grain handle drops in CN’s first quarter

Apr. 24, 2018 at 4:19 am CDT

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Strike action postponed at CP

Apr. 20, 2018 at 7:59 pm CDT

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CP talks said stagnating as strike deadline looms

Apr. 20, 2018 at 2:08 pm CDT

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Regulatory change urged to help expand rural broadband

Apr. 20, 2018 at 1:38 am CDT

A parliamentary committee is calling on the federal government to use legislative tools to help shore up broadband access for rural and remote areas of Canada. The House of Commons’ standing committee on industry, science and technology, chaired by Vancouver area Liberal MP Dan Ruimy, on Tuesday released its report […]

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Case IH L10 Series Loaders

Apr. 19, 2018 at 5:08 pm CDT

The new L10 series premium loaders from Case IH offer features to help make livestock feeding, material handling and other loader work easier. Several design features in the L10 series loaders are: – New styling providing better visibility – Efficient, flow-optimized hydraulics – Mounting and dismounting in under a minute Case IH […]

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Grain handle down, costs up in CP’s Q1

Apr. 18, 2018 at 8:20 pm CDT

Increased traffic in potash and intermodal containers offset an eight per cent drop in grain carloads in Canadian Pacific Railway’s first quarter, against higher costs and “challenging” conditions. Calgary-based CP on Wednesday booked net income of $348 million on gross revenues of $1.662 billion for the quarter ending March 31, […]

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Two unions set to strike Saturday at CP

Apr. 18, 2018 at 12:53 pm CDT

Unions representing engineers, conductors and signal maintainers on Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) have served formal notice to strike starting Saturday. The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC), which represents about 3,000 CP engineers and conductors, served strike notice late Tuesday, as did System Council No. 11 of the International Brotherhood of […]

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Cargill to replace chicken plant’s stunning system

Apr. 14, 2018 at 2:34 am CDT

Agrifood firm Cargill has budgeted $22 million to swap out an electric stunning system at its London, Ont. chicken processing plant in favour of a new controlled atmospheric stunning (CAS) system. The CAS system, expected to be up and running this spring, “will help reduce handling stress with chickens, resulting […]

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