Seed Hawk preps for more plant expansions

Saskatchewan seeding equipment manufacturer Seed Hawk has mapped out a three-year expansion plan that calls for two major additions to its manufacturing plant. The planned additions are expected to provide the space needed to support a new corn planter line and expand Seed Hawk’s lineup of “zero-till seeding solutions.” Specifically, Seed Hawk said last week […] Read more

U.S. firms Andersons, LTG to buy Thompsons

A U.S. agriprocessing player and commodities merchandiser have paired up to buy a well-known name in southwestern Ontario grain and oilseed handling and ag inputs. The Andersons and Lansing Trade Group (LTG) on Monday announced a joint-venture deal to buy Thompsons Ltd., to close early in the company’s third fiscal quarter. Terms of the deal […] Read more


Rail service legislation passes unopposed

The federal government’s bid to set and hold Canada’s railways to agreed-upon levels of service by law has passed unopposed despite calls to tighten its terms. “Once adopted, this new Act will contribute positively to relations between shippers and railway companies, and enhance the effectiveness, efficiency and reliability of the entire rail freight supply,” federal […] Read more



Deere watching

John Deere’s Gold Key customer tour 
program now applies to a range of products built in five of the company’s U.S. plants

If you’ve just written a cheque to cement the deal on any new ag machine from John Deere, odds are you can arrange to go to the appropriate factory and see it built. The green brand first introduced its Gold Key program, which arranges for special customer factory visits, in 1995, but it originally applied […] Read more

Magnum and Steiger customer tours

For our North American-built tractors we do offer tours through our marketing group for the North American facilities,” says Ryan Schaefer, Case IH high horsepower tractor marketing manager. Currently, the North American-built tractors include the Magnum line, which are built in Racine, Wisconsin, near the site of the original J.I. Case assembly plant. And the […] Read more


Driving it off the lot

When their new combine was at the end of the assembly line, Leeann Minogue and her husband took a tour of CNH’s Nebraska plant

My husband had known for years that when you buy a new combine, if you show up at the combine plant on the right day, you can drive it off the assembly line yourself. Brad had always wanted to do this, but when he found out our new Case IH combine was scheduled to roll off the line in […] Read more

New visitor program coming soon to AGCO’s Jackson plant

Early last summer AGCO opened the Intivity Center at its Jackson, Minnesota, tractor and sprayer assembly plant, which gives visitors to the facility a look at some of the history of the machines built there. Executives at AGCO said, at that time, the new Center was just one part of an overall plan to make […] Read more


AGCO’s Hesston experience

AGCO’s Hesston, Kansas, combine assembly plant gives customers a special welcome when they come to see their machine built

This is a big thing for me,” says Kevin Bien, AGCO’s brand marketing manager for Gleaner, referring to the company’s customer factory visit program for combines. “I started thinking, if a customer wants to come to our plant to see his combine built, what could I do to make it special. We want this to […] Read more