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Comment: Running with the big Deere

Labour unrest and record profits underscore importance of equipment maker

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In an effort to maintain its enviable, 34-year run of labour peace, Deere & Co. and the United Auto Workers recently announced a deal to boost worker pay — by 20 per cent over five and six years, Deere said — to keep the iconic green-and-yellow machines rolling off its 11 assembly lines and through
The operators of the rail line to Churchill say a honeycomb form, seen here empty, then filled with crushed rock, is central to their rehabilitation of the rail line over muskeg.
News

Churchill port on two-year hiatus

Operator says ambitious rail rehabilitation will be key to future success

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It’s going to be awhile before the next ship is loaded at the northern Manitoba Port of Churchill. About two years, according to Sheldon Affleck, chief executive officer of the Arctic Gateway Group (AGG). The group consists of 29 Indigenous and a dozen non-Indigenous communities that own and operate the 627-mile rail line from The
A CNH manufacturing plant at Sorocaba, west of Sao Paulo in southeastern Brazil. (Photo courtesy CNH Industrial)

CNH Industrial, Monarch Tractor agree on electrification technologies deal

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Milan | Reuters – CNH Industrial said on Wednesday it had entered into an exclusive, multi-year licensing agreement for electrification technologies with Monarch Tractor, a U.S company focused on fully-electric autonomous tractors. The deal marks a further step in efforts by the Italian-American vehicle maker to bolster its agricultural businesses, while preparing to spin-off its
The Red Barn (pictured here in 1981) at the Brandon Research Station is slated for demolition.
Farmit Manitoba, News, Other

The last days of Brandon’s Red Barn?

AAFC’s plan to tear down an over-century-old barn at the Brandon Research Station is generating push-back

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As long as most can remember the Brandon Research Centre has featured the iconic ‘Red Barn 13’ as one of the central structures on its campus. Built in 1917, the barn was a replacement for a similar structure lost to fire several years earlier. At 112 feet long and 50 feet wide, it held the
Federal Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland appears at a news conference in Ottawa on Sept. 24, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Blair Gable)
Markets

Canada to wind down broad-based COVID aid programs

Feds opt for targeted measures as economy recovers

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Ottawa | Reuters — Canada will not extend existing broad-based COVID-19 support programs for companies and individuals when they expire on Saturday because the economy is recovering well, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Thursday. Instead, Ottawa will introduce more targeted and less costly measures for hard-hit sectors such as the tourism industry. The new
Manitoba Canola Growers Association has pledged $500,000 to support construction of the Prairie Crops and Soils Research Facility at the U of M.
News

New U of M crop research centre past fundraising halfway point

The Manitoba Canola Growers is the latest producer group to pledge financial support

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Manitoba Canola Growers Association members are the latest producer group to put cash behind a proposed updated ag research centre at the University of Manitoba. “MCGA has long recognized UM as a key resource for quality education and agricultural research. As the birthplace of canola, it holds special significance to the canola industry,” said Delaney
File photo of the Port of Montreal. (Guy Banville/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Markets

Canada concerned about supply chain issues, watching ports ‘closely’

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Reuters –– Canada is concerned about the challenges facing global supply chains and is watching the country’s ports very closely, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Thursday. Freeland, speaking to reporters in Washington after meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, said she was broadly optimistic about the strength of Canada’s economic recovery
The 2022 Chevrolet Silverado ZR2. (Media.chevrolet.com)
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GM’s pickup money machine gets a technology tuneup

Silverado ZR2 to appeal to extreme off-roading segment

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Detroit | Reuters — General Motors will give its best-selling Chevrolet Silverado large pickup truck models a makeover next spring to fix competitive shortcomings that have left Chevy in third place in one of the most lucrative vehicle market segments in the world. Catching up with rival trucks from Stellantis NV and Ford Motor Co.,
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Crops, Other

Brandt to buy Deere dealership chain Cervus

Regina firm to pay $302 million in all-cash deal

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The world’s biggest privately-owned chain of Deere construction and forestry equipment dealerships is set to expand its reach into Deere farm equipment in a major way. Brandt Tractor, the equipment sales arm of the Regina-based Brandt Group, on Monday announced an agreement to buy all of publicly-traded Cervus Equipment Corp. for $19.50 a share, valuing

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