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AgDealer lanches mobile app

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Farm equipment shopper website AGDealer.com has launched a new version of itself for smartphone users, providing equipment listings through a fully-featured mobile app. Through its app, AGDealer allows farmers to search its listings, save specific listings of interest, and get quick links to contact sellers. The app, which today provides over 30,000 ag equipment listings, […] Read more
Livestock, Machinery

Outdoor Farm Show goes mobile

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Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show has added a mobile experience for its 20th-anniversary event. The show, which this year runs from Tuesday to Thursday (Sept. 10-12) and is billed as the largest agricultural trade show in the country, now offers a mobile site for smartphone users — as well as fully-featured mobile apps for iPhone, Blackberry […] Read more
Crops, Machinery, Markets

StatsCan may use satellites, not farmers, to measure crop size

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Statistics Canada may scrap one of its annual farmer surveys on crop yields in favour of a report that uses satellite data to estimate production. StatsCan, the national statistical agency, said the satellite data was producing increasingly similar results to its September farmer survey on yields of wheat, canola and other crops, and the change […] Read more
Maple Leaf to sell renderer Rothsay
Livestock, Machinery

Maple Leaf to sell renderer Rothsay

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The largest rendering company in the U.S. has signed a cash deal to buy Rothsay, the rendering arm of food processing giant Maple Leaf Foods and Canada’s top animal byproduct recycler. Texas-based Darling International will pay $645 million for Rothsay, including its six rendering plants in Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia and its biodiesel […] Read more
Crops, Machinery, Markets

Deere profit jumps; concerns over farm-belt spending

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Deere and Co. reported higher-than-expected quarterly profit on Wednesday on strong sales of its tractors and harvesters in the Americas. But concerns that farm-belt spending and commodity prices were poised to weaken sent shares lower. Earlier this year, Deere, the world’s largest maker of agricultural equipment, lowered its outlook for fiscal 2013 revenue, saying a […] Read more
Crops, Machinery, Weather

Video: Adjust your combine for crop condition

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It’s a common misconception that the settings laid out in the operator’s manual will give a producer perfect performance from his or her combine every time. As Les Hill, ag and bioresources program director with the Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute (PAMI), tells Grainews machinery editor Scott Garvey in this video, every combine needs to be […] Read more
Machinery

Morris introduces new seeding equipment

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Executives say extensive customer feedback and field testing were key in fine tuning the final design of three new market-ready products

It’s all culminated at one time for us,” says Morris chief operating officer Don Henry. “Our disc drill has been a five year project, same with the air carts. And the other big one is our Input Control Technology. We’ve been working on that for over three years.” Now, all those products are ready to […] Read more

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