During Ag Days last month in Brandon, farm equipment dealer chain AgWest announced it’s making its first move into Saskatchewan, buying the Yorkton and Weyburn locations of another Agco dealer, Agriterra Equipment.
“This is a natural extension of our current presence in Elie, Neepawa, Brandon, Russell and the Swan River region in Manitoba,” AgWest’s CEO Ronald Slaats says in a release. “This expansion brings us closer to Prairie farmers, enabling us to provide the localized support and premium solutions they rely on to succeed.”
AgWest, which is based at Elie and operates six shops across Manitoba, is certainly geographically closer to the Yorkton and Weyburn shops, while Agriterra’s footprint is otherwise all in Alberta.
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Agriterra’s current staff at the two Saskatchewan shops “will be retained to ensure a seamless transition and maintain uninterrupted service for customers,” AgWest says.
Apart from the Agco roster of brands such as Massey Ferguson and Fendt, AgWest also deals in Claas, MacDon, Schulte, RoGator and TerraGator.
AgWest got formed in a merger of two other Manitoba dealership chains that were taken over back in 2014 by Toromont, which in turn sold the AgWest business to Dutch equipment distributor Mechan International in 2023.
