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Farm equipment demand to remain high, FCC says

Low inventories, high commodity prices and a good crop place pressure on demand

By GFM Network News December 1, 2022

Demand for farm equipment should remain high through 2023 despite higher interest rates and projected price increases, according to Farm Credit Canada. The federal ag lender has released an outlook on the farm equipment market that analyzed data and trends that affect the market. While the outlook attributes much of the current demand to relatively […] Read more

A mobile biomass densification system, developed at PAMI in Portage la Prairie and shown here in a 2012 video, was used to process biomass such as straw into solid blocks, for ease of transport or for use in biomass burners. (BioScience Association Manitoba video screengrab via YouTube)

Crops, Machinery

PAMI to close Portage la Prairie location

Revenue challenges in recent years blamed for Manitoba site's closure

By GFM Network News June 20, 2022

The product development, testing and design firm Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute (PAMI), will be closing its Portage la Prairie, Man. location at the end of July. Citing revenue challenges in recent years as the reason for downsizing, the institute informed staff and clients of the closure of its River Road facility in Portage, prior to […] Read more

A CNH manufacturing plant at Sorocaba, west of Sao Paulo in southeastern Brazil. (Photo courtesy CNH Industrial)

General, Machinery, Reuters

CNH confident on navigating supply issues beyond first quarter

Market environment remains 'a battle'

By GFM Network News May 3, 2022

Milan | Reuters — CNH Industrial beat first-quarter earnings expectations on Tuesday and the agricultural and construction machine maker’s CEO said he was confident the company could successfully navigate ongoing global supply chain issues. “Don’t underestimate how difficult the environment is, it’s a battle,” CEO Scott Wine told analysts after the company posted a 9.2 […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Reuters

Claas sees more semiconductor chip snags in 2022

'It's going to be a tough next six months'

By Reuters, GFM Network News December 17, 2021

Paris | Reuters — Agricultural machinery maker Claas said Thursday it expects difficulties in securing semiconductor chips to persist for the first half of next year, which could curb a surge in profits linked to booming farm demand. An upturn in orders from farmers, who are benefiting from high crop prices after several lean years, […] Read more

TireGrabber products are designed to allow producers to safely and easily change over large diameter tires.

Equipment, Machinery

New heavy equipment jack

TireGrabber introduces the TG Equipment Jack

By Scott Garvey October 13, 2021

A few years ago, Alberta producer Darcy Goossen invented a front-end loader attachment that allowed him to more easily perform large-tire changes on his own farm equipment. That invention eventually became known commercially as the TireGrabber, currently available in three different models, which Goossen now manufactures and sells. The TireGrabber models allow for handling large […] Read more

U.S. President Joe Biden tours a manufacturing lab at McHenry County College during a visit to northwest Chicago suburb Crystal Lake on July 7, 2021. (Photo: Reuters/Evelyn Hockstein)

General, Machinery, Markets, Reuters

Biden seeks to lift limits on U.S. farmer dealings with tractor makers, packers

Executive order to address corporate 'abuses of power'

By GFM Network News July 7, 2021

Washington | Reuters — U.S. President Joe Biden wants to give that country’s farmers more power in negotiating the sale of livestock to big processors and in deciding who repairs their tractors, the White House said on Tuesday. The executive order, expected within days, will also address such competitive issues as delayed airline baggage, cellphone […] Read more

My first experience at Annaheim, Sask., was with the rotary MF 8570. It was a good combine but the cab was not that tight. After a few days, I was plugged up with dust. The door actually rattled and had to be slammed shut every so often. It had a spinning screen to keep off the chaff. However, it did not work all that well.

Columns, Machinery

Les Henry: Combines I have known, Part 4: Masseys

This column is all about the red paint

By Les Henry June 17, 2021

This is Part 4 of a series about combines that occurs on no particular schedule. It seemed this was an appropriate time for something light and breezy. Part 2 (Grainews, September 26, 2017 issue) had a fair bit about Massey combines but this one is all about the red paint. I will take you back […] Read more

Crops, Machinery

Buhler pulls Farm King manufacturing back to Canada

Work to halt at Minnesota plant early next year

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News November 24, 2020

Winnipeg farm equipment maker Buhler Industries is relocating its Farm King manufacturing work back to Canada from the U.S. this winter. After consolidating its U.S. manufacturing this summer into one plant at Willmar, Minn., about 140 km west of Minneapolis, the company said Thursday it will also halt production at Willmar in early 2021. Buhler, […] Read more

Features, Machinery

Fendt expands its North American tractor offering

More model lines from AGCO’s Fendt

By Scott Garvey November 12, 2020

Fendt’s traditional home and main tractor manufacturing facility is nestled in picturesque Bavaria, in southern Germany, and it’s just a 35-minute cab ride at 210 kilometres per hour on the Autobahn from Munich’s airport. (Trust me on that.) The Marktoberdorf facility is extremely modern and builds the brand’s several wheeled tractor model lines. But here […] Read more

Reading this book along with a good cup of coffee made for a good way to spend Sunday afternoons.

Machinery

Winter reading for International Harvester enthusiasts

The family behind the IH brand? Or a book for IH Cub tractor owners?

By Scott Garvey January 15, 2020

We’ve come across two books that International Harvester enthusiasts might want to make time to read during this cold winter season. Founding family history This summer we read through The International Harvester Company: A History of the Founding Families and Their Machines, written by Chaim M. Rosenberg and published by McFarland. This isn’t the typical machinery […] Read more

China snaps up Australian canola after trade spat with Canada, sources say

Canada, Mexico announce new partnership

U.S. grains: Soy, corn futures weaken on harvest pressure, firm dollar

GFM Network News