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Degelman buys grain bagging, milling equipment firm Renn

Alberta equipment maker's staff to continue with Degelman

Regina ag implement maker Degelman Industries has bought into the grain bagging and grain milling equipment business with a deal for Alberta manufacturer Renn Mill Center. Degelman, in a release Thursday, said it recently bought the Lacombe, Alta. company for an undisclosed sum and will keep Renn’s existing employees and management in place. In business […] Read more

Evolution of tires on agricultural vehicles

Evolution of tires on agricultural vehicles

Since it was first introduced as an option on agricultural tractors around the 1930s, the pneumatic tire has continued to evolve. Tire manufacturers have since had to keep up with the evolution of farm machines, which have become significantly larger and heavier. They’ve had to  come up with new tire designs capable of handling the […] Read more


NYMEX August 2023 West Texas Intermediate crude oil, with August 2023 Brent crude oil (black line). (Barchart)

Extent of Saudi oil production cut unclear

Reported tensions within OPEC limit price gains

MarketsFarm — At the OPEC+ meeting Sunday in Vienna, Saudi Arabia announced it will cut its oil production by one million barrels per day (BPD) come July. And while that move was bullish for the markets, by how much remains to be seen, said Phil Flynn of the Price Futures Group in Chicago. “It’s probably […] Read more

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Animal care council won’t update livestock transport code of practice

NFACC says 'no further action' pending

After over four years’ publicly funded work to develop an updated national code of practice for livestock transport for Canada, the National Farm Animal Care Council has called a halt. In an information update dated May 1, NFACC said its board has now decided “no further action will be taken” by the council to update […] Read more


Ford is one of the major automakers offering a digital rear-view mirror on some vehicles.

As mirrors go digital, there’s a lot more than meets the eye

Automakers slowly abandon glass mirrors for digital camera monitors

Rear-view mirrors. They’re a standard accessory on virtually every car and truck since about the time of the Model A Ford, and now they’re standard on many ag machines too. They’re about the simplest technology you’ll find on modern equipment — basically glass and plastic. But many manufacturers are now abandoning, or at least offering […] Read more

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Canada’s combine sales up in April

Small tractor sales drag on total retail movement

Retail sales of combines in both Canada and the U.S. showed a marked increase in April this year while the market for sub-compact tractors continues to soften, new data shows. The count for April 2023 from the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) puts self-propelled combine sales in Canada at 166, up 50.9 per cent from […] Read more


Preproduction 2023 models of Ford’s F-series Super Duty pickup trucks. (Ford.com)

Ford to keep AM radio, CEO says

Amid rising concerns, Canada's premier automaker will not drop AM

Ford Motor Co. has gone back on its plan to phase AM radio out of its vehicles. Ford CEO Jim Farley made the announcement Tuesday via Twitter, after company officials said last month that AM would be dropped from new non-commercial vehicles. “After speaking with policy leaders about the importance of AM broadcast radio as […] Read more

A Massey Ferguson MF 5S series tractor. (Agcocorp.com)

Agco, Kubota sign onto U.S. right-to-repair pledge

Firms join Deere, CNH in pacts with Farm Bureau

Two more major ag equipment makers have signed onto a framework that would grant farmers and independent repair shops in the United States reasonable access to the means to repair their machines. The Washington, D.C.-based American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) on Monday announced it had reached memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with equipment firms Agco and […] Read more


GM’s fully electric 2024 Sierra EV Denali Edition 1 should be arriving on dealers’ lots early in 2024.

BEV Sierra to debut in 2024

GM continues to move toward its goal of offering a zero-emissions fleet of vehicles by 2035 and abandoning the internal combustion engine. The latest announcement in its BEV (battery electric vehicle) development program is a full-sized, fully electric Sierra pickup will begin delivery to dealers in early 2024. It will join the brand’s other EV […] Read more

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Potential loss of AM radio in vehicles a concern for farmers

Many farmers rely on AM range, signal; U.S. lawmakers launch legislation

Canadian farmers are expressing concern about the possibility of their access to AM radio disappearing. Ford, which has been Canada’s best-selling auto brand since 2009, has stated it plans to stop putting AM radios in non-commercial vehicles by 2024. The automaker’s decision follows those of companies such as Tesla, Mazda and Volkswagen, which have removed […] Read more