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Chance remains for Que. beef plant before asset sale

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The equipment at Quebec’s now-shuttered Levinoff-Colbex cull cow packing plant goes to auction in about eight weeks — but until then, its owners will entertain offers from buyers interested in rescuing the plant. The Colbex building and land at St-Cyrille-de-Wendover, in the Centre-du-Quebec region, are still owned by provincial investment financing agency Investissement Quebec and […] Read more
Crops, Machinery, Markets, Reuters

EU raids ethanol companies over price-fixing concerns

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Brussels | Reuters — The European Commission has raided ethanol companies in two EU countries as part of investigations into alleged price-fixing. The Commission, which acts as the competition watchdog in the 28-member European Union, said Thursday it had concerns that companies may have colluded in submitting price information used to set industry benchmarks for […] Read more
Crops, Machinery, Reuters

All major U.S. railroads must report service stats

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Reuters — The top U.S. rail regulator ruled on Wednesday that all Class 1 railroads operating in the United States must provide detailed weekly freight service reports, a decision that cited months of congestion that have hit the grain and power industries particularly hard. Carriers must submit detailed data on average train speeds, dwell times […] Read more
Crops, Machinery, Reuters

CN service resumes after fiery Sask. derailment

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Toronto | Reuters — Canadian National Railway (CN) resumed service on a line in east-central Saskatchewan Wednesday after workers removed debris from a fiery train derailment that occurred a day earlier and led to evacuation of a nearby village. Twenty-six cars derailed near Clair, Sask., about 75 km east of Humboldt, on Tuesday. Six of […] Read more
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Crops, Machinery

CTA rejects Canola Growers’ rail service complaint as vague

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Canada’s transportation dispute resolution agency has tossed a complaint over rail service to Prairie grain handlers as too vague and lacking in “supporting facts.” The complaint to the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA), filed in May by the Canadian Canola Growers Association (CCGA), was dismissed in an agency ruling released last week. The dismissal “is a […] Read more
John Deere’s line of wheeled 9R tractors grows by one to a total of six for 2015, and all models get a variety of updates and an all-new options list.
Machinery

John Deere 9R tractors get new features

Active Command Steering and HydraCushion Suspension 
among new options for Deere’s articulated tractors

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In August, John Deere revealed its full 2015 model lineup to dealers and the media at a convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. And in true Deere fashion, the official introduction show was a spectacle to behold. The company had a lot to show off. There was a long parade of new machines to see, but what […] Read more
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Machinery

Fendt 900 Series tractors offer updated features for 2014

AGCO included its German-built Fendt tractors 
in a product demonstration day in Minnesota

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When AGCO invited members of the farm media to its Jackson, Minnesota, tractor and sprayer assembly plant to look at new equipment, it didn’t limit what was on display to only machines built in there. Management also wanted to show off the newest models in its German-built Fendt tractor line, including a 900 Series tractor […] Read more
Canada’s Farm Progress Show was chosen as the venue for the North American debut of McCormick’s new six-model line of X7 MFWD tractors.
Machinery

McCormick debuts X7 tractors

Introduced at Germany’s Agritechnica last November, the first X7 Series tractors to arrive in North America were on display at Canada’s Farm Progress Show in June

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Here in Canada, farmers didn’t hear a lot of news from McCormick during the past couple of years. But as it turns out, the brand that is part of Italian company ARGO’s stable had been quietly working on developing an entirely new series of mid-range, MFWD tractors with a wider range of options and broader […] Read more

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