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The combine that never was, part three

White’s attempt at creating a pull-type combine with rotary threshing technology came crashing down in the mid-1980s. Here’s why

By Scott Garvey May 1, 2014

After emerging from bankruptcy protection in 1981, White Farm equipment intended to come roaring back to the marketplace — in part with a new four-model line of rotary combines. Its first rotary model, the 9700, had been launched in 1980. It was later updated and renumbered the 9720. The new combines would compliment that model […] Read more

Vintage photo of a Ford tractor assembly plant.

Machinery

Tracing the timeline

By Scott Garvey April 29, 2014

While production at New Holland’s Basildon U.K. factory has been uninterrupted for the past 50 years, it has been affected by some major corporate changes. Here’s a look at some of the milestones. 1962 Ford begins construction on the Basildon factory 1964 On May 15 the Basildon factory opens its doors the same year Sperry New Holland […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Markets

Diesel, exchange rate to boost cost index for Prairie grain freight

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News April 28, 2014

A price index on which the math is based for how much revenue Canada’s big two railways get to keep from handling Prairie grain will see an above-average raise for the coming crop year. The Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) on Monday pegged the volume-related composite price index (VRCPI) for the 2014-15 crop year at 1.3219, up […] Read more

(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Corn, Crops, Machinery, Soybeans

Pearce: Confusion remains surrounding new Fluency Agent

By Ralph Pearce, GFM Network News April 24, 2014

Many in the seed and seed treatment sectors hoped, as the 2013 growing season came to a close, that development of a new fluency agent would be the beginning of the end of controversy between beekeepers and the crops sector. At issue was the use of neonicotinoid-based insecticidal seed treatments and alleged ties to bee […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Markets

CP, CN book higher Q1 grain revenue, smaller grain handle

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News April 23, 2014

First-quarter revenue from grain handling is up at both Canadian Pacific (CP) and Canadian National (CN) Railways as the two companies both reported higher overall quarterly profit. CP on Tuesday booked overall first-quarter net income of $254 million on revenues of $1.509 billion for the period ending March 31 — the company’s best-ever Q1 result, […] Read more

Livestock, Machinery

OAC’s Kemptville campus funded for skills training

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News April 22, 2014

The Ontario government has put up $2 million to extend skills training programs at the Ontario Agricultural College’s (OAC) soon-to-be-shuttered Kemptville campus for the coming academic year. The province announced the funding Tuesday for the campus to continue to host skills training programs that “support the agricultural sector in eastern Ontario,” including the agricultural equipment […] Read more

The White 9550 combine used a centre-feed header

Machinery

The combine that never was, part two

White’s 9550 was to be its first rotary pull-type combine. Moving it from concept to prototype pushed engineers to come up with new solutions

By Scott Garvey April 22, 2014

To retain a foothold in the pull-type combine market in the 1980s, White Farm Equipment needed to create an all-new model with rotary threshing technology. The 9550 was to be that model. It would “out spec” International Harvester’s 1482, which dominated the pull-type market in Western Canada at the time. That meant it would be […] Read more

The snow covering this field of corn stubble on Tuesday (April 15) is now mostly gone. (Ralph Pearce photo)

Crops, Machinery, Weather

Pearce: Weather not the only story in Ont. fields

By Ralph Pearce, GFM Network News April 17, 2014

The planting season always seems that much closer when the first meeting of extension staff with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food and local retailers and advisers is held. It provides a first glimpse of the region’s wheat crop as it comes out of dormancy, and an assessment of local field activity, including planting […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Reuters

Scientists make ethanol without corn or other crops

By Will Dunham, GFM Network News April 10, 2014

Washington | Reuters — Scientists said Wednesday they have developed a new way to make liquid ethanol efficiently without using corn or other crops needed in the conventional method for producing the biofuel. The scientists said their process turns carbon monoxide gas into liquid ethanol with the help of an electrode made of a form […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Markets

New interswitching rules more punishment than policy: CN CEO

By Lisa Guenther, GFM Network News April 9, 2014

Given recent federal moves to regulate Canada’s major railways into moving more grain, Claude Mongeau came to Winnipeg Wednesday feeling “a little bit like a general who lost the battle.” Speaking to the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce, the CEO of Canadian National Railway (CN) said he was in town to make the case that “regulation […] Read more

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The combine that never was, part three

Tracing the timeline

Diesel, exchange rate to boost cost index for Prairie grain freight

Pearce: Confusion remains surrounding new Fluency Agent

CP, CN book higher Q1 grain revenue, smaller grain handle

OAC’s Kemptville campus funded for skills training

The combine that never was, part two

Pearce: Weather not the only story in Ont. fields

Scientists make ethanol without corn or other crops

New interswitching rules more punishment than policy: CN CEO

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