Insights and Stories on Machinery

U.S. rail regulator tackles railroads over customer complaints

Mar. 19, 2018 at 9:32 pm CDT

Reuters — The top U.S. rail regulator has asked major railroads for information on service levels before meeting disgruntled shippers and other customers over complaints about service delays and higher costs. In letters to the CEOs of the railroads, dated Friday and posted Monday on the U.S. Surface Transportation Board’s […]

Get grain moving again, KAP says

Mar. 19, 2018 at 9:05 pm CDT

By Allan Dawson

Industry still looking for new NH3 tank rule break

Mar. 19, 2018 at 7:53 pm CDT

By John Greig

Hesston 2370 Ultra High Density baler

Mar. 15, 2018 at 8:12 pm CDT

By Staff

Walmart patents hint at future where its drones tend the farms

Mar. 15, 2018 at 11:05 am CDT

By Nandita Bose Tom Polansek

Enjoy stable diesel market while you can, analyst says

Mar. 14, 2018 at 12:53 am CDT

CNS Canada — The short-term outlook for the diesel market in North America calls for current prices to remain largely untouched through spring planting — but it could change drastically after that. According to Tom Kloza of the Oil Price Information Service in New Jersey, prices for diesel could even […]

By Dave Sims

Salford-Valmar 6700 after-market air boom applicator

Mar. 8, 2018 at 5:02 pm CST

Salford Group recently released the Salford-Valmar 6700 aftermarket chassis mounted air boom applicator. The Salford-Valmar 6700 will be available for select late model John Deere sprayer chassis (models 4930, 4940 and R4045), with the release of 6700 models specifically tailored for other makes of chassis planned throughout 2018 and 2019. […]

By Staff

CN apologizes as farm groups, Ottawa press on rail service

Mar. 7, 2018 at 5:18 pm CST

Canada’s largest railway has taken the unusual step of apologizing for its pace of grain delivery in recent weeks and pledging “immediate steps” to improve its grain handle. After parting ways with its CEO Luc Jobin on Monday, Canadian National Railway (CN), through interim CEO Jean-Jacques Ruest, said Wednesday it […]

By Staff

CN CEO Luc Jobin steps down abruptly

Mar. 5, 2018 at 3:38 pm CST

Reuters — Canadian National Railway (CN) CEO Luc Jobin stepped down abruptly on Monday, as the board looks to “energize” the railroad’s leadership amid a major supply crunch that has hurt profits and angered customers. “The board believes the company needs a leader who will energize the team, realize CN’s […]

By John Benny

Steel shock drives wedge into sluggish NAFTA talks

Mar. 1, 2018 at 7:33 pm CST

Mexico City | Reuters — Negotiators trying to rework the NAFTA trade deal on Thursday were hit by the prospect of a battle over U.S. steel tariffs that could make it more complicated to build autos in North America, one of the most sensitive issues at the talks. U.S. President […]

By Dave Graham David Ljunggren