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Comment: Agriculture’s greatest innovation

Farms are still dangerous, but they’ve got a lot better over the years

By Alan Guebert May 24, 2017

In my youth, May brought two noticeable changes to the big Lutheran Church my family faithfully attended. The first was heat. No building on earth better held daytime heat from Mother’s Day through Reformation Day than that century-old house of worship. The second was the season’s short-sleeved parade of lost limbs, a brutal testament to

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VIDEO: Near miss as tow hook snaps, smashes into tractor

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 18, 2017

Wawanesa farmer Simon Ellis could have been killed when a tow hook broke and narrowly missed smashing through the glass of his tractor cab. “When trying to extract the grain truck from the mud we broke the tow hook off the truck. It was a near miss that could have cost me my life.” says Ellis, in his

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Be safe and be ready to share the road with farm traffic

By Province of Manitoba May 1, 2017

Province of Manitoba – Farmers are gearing up for another growing season and that means agricultural equipment will soon be moving along roadways to fields and sharing the roads and highways in rural areas, Agriculture Minister Ralph Eichler said today. “When our producers are moving equipment down the road, they tend to move slower than

Deere & Co. is managing the agriculture downturn more effectively but there’s still storm clouds overhead.

Machinery, News

Deere earnings beat estimates but outlook downbeat

Global farm recession blamed for ongoing challenges but losses were smaller than predicted

By Meredith Davis December 21, 2016

Deere & Co. reported a much smaller-than-expected decline in quarterly earnings Nov. 22, after it cut costs and raised prices to compensate for sluggish demand for its agricultural and construction equipment, and its shares jumped more than 10 per cent. The company forecast revenue for the new fiscal year would fall about one per cent

Goold Shapley & Muir (GS&M) is important as it was a very early Canadian manufacturer of tractors. GS&M was formed in 1892 from Goold and Company, a manufacturer of beekeeper supplies and refrigerators. The new company diversified and began to manufacture windmills, gasoline engines and other machinery. Manufacturing gas engines resulted in GS&M getting into the tractor business. In 1907, the company introduced the “Ideal” tractor line which consisted of two models the 18-35 and 25-50. GS&M went on to produce the “Ideal Junior” a 15-25 tractor. The Ideal Junior used a hopper-cooled two-cylinder opposed engine. GS&M tractors are rare today, however, they apparently were a decent tractor at the time.

Machinery

The Brandon Light Tractor Plowing Demonstration of 1916

This event, was the first up-close look many farmers had at a tractor

By Alex Campbell November 2, 2016

While the Winnipeg Tractor Trials had come to an end in 1913, E.W. Hamilton, the editor of the Canadian Thresherman and Farmer magazine, remained interested in promoting tractors. More importantly, the farming public remained very interested in tractors with their promise of being able to perform more work at a lower cost than horses. Hamilton

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U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures rise on expectations of tight supplies

U.S. grains: Chicago soybeans fall, but achieve first annual gain in three years

ICE Canada Weekly: Canola unlikely to have a good start to 2026

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Comment: Agriculture’s greatest innovation

VIDEO: Near miss as tow hook snaps, smashes into tractor

Be safe and be ready to share the road with farm traffic

Deere earnings beat estimates but outlook downbeat

The Brandon Light Tractor Plowing Demonstration of 1916

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