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A General Motors illustration featuring a display version of its 2024 Silverado EV pickup, due for release in the fall of 2023. (Media.GM.ca)

GM ramps up EV push with plans to make battery materials in Canada

Automaker and BASF both plan CAM plants at Becancour

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Reuters — General Motors and South Korea’s POSCO Chemical will build a $400 million facility to produce battery materials in Canada as the carmaker ramps up plans to produce mainly electric vehicles (EVs) in the future, the companies said Monday. The plant will produce cathode active material (CAM) for vehicle batteries at Becancour, Que. Cathodes […] Read more
Adam Reid. (Photo courtesy Buhler Versatile)
Crops, Machinery

Ag equipment firm Buhler Industries shakes up board table

Rostselmash's Babkin steps down, founder Buhler to retire

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Board oversight of Winnipeg farm equipment manufacturer Buhler Industries will now include another of the company’s upper managers, as a co-owner of the company’s Russian parent firm and the company’s founder both step down. Buhler’s board announced Wednesday it has accepted the resignation of Konstantin Babkin, the president and co-owner of Russian holding company Novoe […] Read more
(PortMetroVancouver.com)
Crops, Reuters

Canada shuts ports to Russian ships over Ukraine invasion

Russian firms' Canadian holdings also under scrutiny, Freeland warns

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Toronto | Reuters — Canada ratcheted up pressure on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine by shutting ports to Russian-owned ships and saying on Tuesday that holdings of all Russian oligarchs and companies in the country are under review. Canada has announced a slew of measures to isolate Russia, including imposing sanctions on Russian President […] Read more
(Cummins.com)
Crops, Machinery, Reuters

Engine maker Cummins says expects ‘some impact’ in Russia

Deere says will abide by sanctions

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Reuters — Diesel engine maker Cummins Inc. expects “some impact” to its business in Russia and is analyzing and preparing for current and anticipated sanctions, the U.S. truck engine maker said in an e-mailed statement on Monday. Many firms have idled operations in Russia after it invaded Ukraine last week, resulting in powerful Western sanctions. […] Read more
Vincent Pawluski didn’t set out to go into the remote control manufacturing business, but he was encouraged to share the equipment he’d developed for his own farm with other producers. Coming up with a design, developing a prototype and then taking that to 3-D print manufacturing was all something he learned along the way.
Equipment, Features

Remote-controlled device saves steps, improves safety

No need to make multiple trips in and out of the tractor cab with wireless PTO controller

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Vincent Pawluski is one of those farmers who sees a situation in day-to-day farm work and figures there must be a better way to get the job done. A little more than a year after a light-bulb moment in the cab of his combine on his Peace River region farm, Pawluski and family are now […] Read more
Buhler Industries board member Konstantin Babkin, shown here at left with the company’s then-president Dmitry Lyubimov during a visit to the company’s facility in Winnipeg in 2007, is seen as particularly vulnerable to sanction from Canada. (File photo by Dave Bedard)
Crops, Machinery

Equipment maker Buhler distances self from Ukraine invasion

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A Winnipeg farm equipment manufacturer is distancing itself from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Buhler Industries, which manufactures the Versatile tractor line and Farm King equipment, is majority-owned by the Russian firm Combine Factory Rostselmash. That firm purchased an 80 per cent stake in Buhler in 2007 and boosted that to 97 per cent ownership in […] Read more
A CNH manufacturing plant at Sorocaba, west of Sao Paulo in southeastern Brazil. (Photo courtesy CNH Industrial)
Crops, Machinery, Markets, Reuters

CNH sees revenues rising to 2024 on precision agriculture plans

Margin at agricultural unit seen at 14.5 to 15.5 per cent

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Milan | Reuters — Italian-American vehicle maker CNH Industrial on Tuesday gave guidance for a total revenue growth of up to 24 per cent through 2024 as it presented a new business plan after spinning off its truck, bus and engine units. In a bid to focus on its higher-margin agriculture and construction machine businesses, […] Read more
Case IH introduces the “all-purpose” AFS Connect Optum tractor series, offering two models with 270 and 300 horsepower.
Equipment, Machinery

Case IH introduces the AF Optum tractors

Two new models join Case IH’s AFS Connect tractor series

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Last August, Case IH announced it was adding another tractor series to its AFS Connect models, which already include the AFS Connect Steiger and Magnums. To this group of machines with enhanced integrated technology features now comes the AFS Connect Optum tractors. Unlike the Steigers and Magnums, which are basically designed for hard pulling in […] Read more
Fendt’s new 300 series 100- to 132-horsepower utility class tractors are now available in North America.
Equipment, Machinery

Fendt 300 Vario Gen4 tractors arrive

The promised new 300 series tractors now available for order

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Last July, during a global press conference streamed live online from Fendt Headquarters in Marktoberdorf, Germany, AGCO’s premiere brand promised North American farmers they would soon see the Fendt 300 series tractors arrive on these shores. In August, the brand followed through on that promise and announced the utility class 300 series models are now […] Read more

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