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Canadian farm equipment sales projected to slump in 2025

By Geralyn Wichers November 21, 2024

Farm machinery sales are forecast to decline for the remainder of the year and into the next. New equipment sales are expected to be soft as farmers face low commodity prices, high equipment prices and lower profits, though the decline in 2025 is expected to be less severe than in 2024. Sales of 4WD tractors are projected to stay above the five-year average.

Machinery, Reuters

Deere forecasts weak annual profit as farm incomes sag

By Reuters, Shivansh Tiwary, Utkarsh Shetti November 21, 2024

Deere & Co forecasted lower-than-expected 2025 profit on Thursday, as slumping farm incomes and inflationary pressures affect demand for the company's tractors and other agricultural equipment.

Equipment, Machinery

Claas upgrades its digital offering

The new Claas Connect is to be an all-in-one farm management platform

By Scott Garvey November 12, 2024

Glacier FarmMedia — Claas’ newly upgraded Claas Connect digital platform went live starting Oct. 1. Its expanded cloud-based features allow it to be a one-stop access point for all a producer’s precision farming and machinery management tools and resources. The new system consolidates all of Claas’ existing digital platforms in one location. “What we will […] Read more

At left is a wheat crop seeded on shorter or more conventional stubble height, which trapped less snow over winter. At right is a more robust crop growing in taller stubble that was able to capture more snow.

GrowPro

Research confirms value of taller crop stubble

Technology is available to help set up, measure and monitor on-farm research projects

By Lee Hart November 9, 2024

Leaving taller crop stubble in the fall can improve the odds of higher crop yield in the following year, says Saskatchewan crop consultant Mike Palmier. His field observations in the 2021 growing season, followed by on-farm research trials through 2022 and 2023, produced data to support a recommendation to leave taller crop stubble. Even a […] Read more

A CNH manufacturing plant at Sorocaba, west of Sao Paulo in southeastern Brazil. (Photo courtesy CNH Industrial)

Machinery, Reuters

CNH Industrial shares fall after third-quarter profit miss, forecast cut

By Reuters November 8, 2024

Shares of CNH Industrial fell more than 10 per cent premarket on Friday, after the farm and construction equipment maker missed third-quarter profit estimates and cut its 2024 profit forecast due to weak demand and reduced dealer inventory requirements.

Proper machine maintenance, cleaning and monitoring can help reduce the incidence of combine fires during harvest.

Crops, Equipment, Machinery

Take steps to prevent combine fires in sunflowers

In warm, dry, windy weather, cleaning, monitoring and maintenance become even more important

By North Dakota State University October 31, 2024

Row-crop harvest is in full swing across North Dakota, with many crops near completion. Weather conditions have been extremely warm and dry, allowing producers to harvest crops without the pressure to get the grains harvested before winter arrives. However, dry and warm conditions increase the risk of combine fires — especially when harvesting sunflowers. In […] Read more

Equipment, Global markets, Machinery

John Deere responds to tariff threat

A Trump threat and social media backlash have Deere stating its commitment to U.S. manufacturing

By Scott Garvey October 25, 2024

In late September, Donald Trump made a surprising statement during a campaign rally, although Trump’s behaviour is now generally so consistently bizarre that it’s difficult to call any statement surprising. But this one caught the ag community a bit off guard. Earlier in the year, John Deere had announced it was moving some production out […] Read more

Crops, Equipment, Machinery

CNH’s app, web portal upgrades based on farmer input

FieldOps replaces previous Case IH, New Holland brand-specific telematics

By Scott Garvey October 14, 2024

As many farms’ management practices go digital, growers increasingly ask for machine telematics and agronomic field data to be combined into one online interface — and it should be intuitive, streamlined, and maybe most importantly, fully mobile, according to Jacob Maurer, global product manager for CNH. When the company decided to redesign its web portal […] Read more

While it’s toughest on tractor tires right after harvest, stubble may still be hard on your tires even the following spring.

Equipment, Machinery, Traction & Compaction

Expect stalks and stubble to become more stabby

Also: rubber is most prone to trouble from stubble when brand new, before it can harden naturally

By Dave Bedard October 10, 2024

Don’t let its adorable little yellow flowers from the summer fool you — canola today can be “like little rebar” in your tractor tires. That was a late takeaway from an ag tire clinic for farmers at Melfort, Sask. in July, hosted by staff from retailer Kal Tire and manufacturer Firestone Ag. It’s not that […] Read more

Machinery

VIDEO: Vintage Roto Thresh combine hits the field to harvest wheat

By Scott Garvey October 2, 2024

This fall a vintage Roto Thresh combine returned to a Saskatchewan field to do something it had not done in a very long time: harvest wheat. This is likely the only Roto Thresh to actually be put to work harvesting a crop in decades. In this video, Glacier FarmMedia’s senior machinery editor Scott Garvey was there to record the event and […] Read more

GFM Network News

U.S. livestock: CME cattle fall on profit-taking

U.S. grains: Soybeans rebound as market weighs China prospects

B.C. ostrich owner condemns violence near embattled farm

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