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Claas’ Canada West Harvest Centre dealership chain in Saskatchewan will now sell both Claas and Horsch equipment, giving them a full-line offering.
Equipment, Machinery

Claas-owned dealer chain to handle Horsch implements

Canada West Harvest Centres will retail an expanded product offering in Saskatchewan

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At the corporate level there are a lot of similarities between equipment manufacturers Horsch and Claas. Both are family-owned firms headquartered in Germany with wide product distribution around the world. But each company specializes in equipment not on the roster of the other. So when Claas’ company-owned Canada West Harvest Centre dealership chain in Saskatchewan […] Read more
1974 Roto Thresh brochure
Equipment, Machinery

What’s different about the Roto Thresh?

The Saskatoon-made combines sported a unique separating system

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It’s likely safe to say not many people farming today have heard of a Roto Thresh combine. That isn’t surprising. Only 50 were ever built by the small company that existed for just a few short years more than four decades ago. According to the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, “The Roto Thresh combine was […] Read more
(Dave Bedard photo)
Crops

SaskCanola, SaskFlax merge offices, management

Groups will maintain separate governing boards, levies

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Sasskatchewan’s canola and flax development commissions are consolidating their management, staff and office space under one roof. SaskCanola and SaskFlax said Wednesday their new “management collaboration” will translate to efficiencies for both commissions with “a full staff complement to support both boards.” Both organizations will now operate out of the current SaskCanola office at Innovation […] Read more
Morris’ Quantum Air Drill had its first public appearance at Canada’s Farm Progress Show and its formal launch at Ag in Motion in 2018. (Grainews photo by Scott Garvey)
Crops, Machinery

Court approves Morris Industries’ sale to Rite Way

Yorkton plant, not included in deal, to close

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Seeding equipment manufacturer Morris Industries has been approved for sale to another Saskatchewan manufacturer — minus its Yorkton manufacturing plant, which is not part of the sale and is now expected to close by year’s end. Judge Shawn Smith of Court of Queen’s Bench in Saskatoon on Friday approved the sale of Morris to a […] Read more
(Dave Bedard photo)
General

Federated Co-op to close Calgary distribution centre

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The main supply outlet for Co-op grocery stores in southern Alberta and British Columbia is set to close in April as one of its main users takes its business elsewhere. Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL) announced Thursday it will close its Calgary food distribution centre in April, a decision it said will eliminate just over 200 […] Read more
A Richardson ag retail site at Three Hills, Alta. (Richardson.ca)
Crops

Richardson to retail in west-central Saskatchewan

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Prairie grain firm Richardson International plans to build out its retail market share in west-central Saskatchewan with a new inputs centre southwest of Saskatoon. Privately-held Richardson said July 30 it would begin construction shortly on the new facility in Delisle, about 35 km southwest of the city, to open for the 2019 growing season. The […] Read more
Mike and Amanda and their children Silas and Laurel hope to move to his parents’ acreage soon.
Farm Life, FarmLife

Natural products business flourishing

Goal was to create quality products containing no harmful chemicals

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When Mike Zimmer launched his line of natural body care products in 2010, he had already spent several years researching, testing, and fine tuning his salves, soaps, and deodorants. His goal was to create quality products that actually worked, and did not contain harmful chemicals that might jeopardize people’s health or wreak havoc with the […] Read more
WinField United Canada will operate out of Saskatoon, serving about 60 independent ag input retailers. (LandOLakesInc.com)
Crops

Mergers spawn expanded supply network for input dealers

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A wholesale buying network set up by and for independent Prairie crop input retailers, against a rising tide of industry consolidation, is now growing through consolidation. The Prairie retailers, who in 2010 set up Grow Community of Independents to collectively build up their retail and agronomic offerings, are now independent members of a new entity, […] Read more
(Agriculture.basf.com)
Crops, Pulses, Soybeans

BASF to boost inoculant production at Saskatoon

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The Canadian crop protection arm of Germany’s BASF plans to step up its game in the crop inoculant business with a $10 million expansion at its Saskatoon plant. The facility, set up in 1988, handles production and research and development for BASF’s seed- and soil-applied rhizobium/bacillus inoculants, exported and sold worldwide under the Nodulator brand […] Read more
Brandt Industries will buy the Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Canada plant in Saskatoon for an undisclosed sum. (HilcoInd.com)
General, Machinery, Weather

Brandt buys Saskatoon power generating equipment plant

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Tractor and equipment manufacturer Brandt expects to double its manufacturing footprint — and expand into new equipment lines — after closing a deal for a major Saskatchewan plant site specializing in power generation machinery. The Regina-based company on Friday announced it had closed its deal to buy the former Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Canada facility […] Read more

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