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Watch for slow-moving farm equipment: RCMP

Motorists urged to take precautions when meeting farm equipment on roadways

By Lorraine Stevenson October 20, 2016

RCMP and Canadian Agricultural Safety Association (CASA) are warning motor vehicle drivers once again to slow down as the growing season nears its end and farmers move large equipment on public roadways. “This year we have already had one death on our roads because of a collision with farm equipment,” said RCMP Insp. Ed Moreland, officer in

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Deere dealer chain Cervus to seek real estate buyer

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff September 28, 2016

Prairie farm machinery dealer chain Cervus Equipment Corp. plans to sell about 10 properties where it now operates dealerships and become their long-term tenant. The publicly-traded Calgary company, which operates 72 farm and industrial equipment dealerships in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, said Tuesday it plans to seek out a sale-and-leaseback deal for about 10

La Compa, France’s best-known agricultural museum, is displaying a Massey Sawyer that was better suited for Prairie fields.

Local news

A Prairie tractor makes a long trip to France

A request from a French agriculture museum reveals an interesting tale of a tractor

By Alex Campbell September 15, 2016

The Conservatory of Agriculture, the premier agricultural museum of France, recently contacted the Manitoba Agricultural Museum. It was seeking a digital copy of a Sawyer Massey tractor advertisement we were using on our web page on the Sawyer Massey 25-45 tractor in our collection. The Conservatory of Agriculture, better known as Le Compa, has a

Winnipeg pioneered scientific tractor testing in the early part of the 20th century. Seen here is a Flour City tractor on a drawbar test.

Country Crossroads

When Manitoba set the standard for tractors

A forgotten Manitoba competition tested early tractors for prospective buyers 

By Alex Campbell August 24, 2016

Little known today, either in Manitoba or outside the province, the Winnipeg Light Agricultural Motor Contests were on the cutting edge of the new technology of the tractor. In fact, the tractor was so new in 1908 that the word tractor had not even been invented. The Winnipeg contests were the first effort to scientifically

Total farm cash receipts projected to remain strong.

News

Canadian farm equipment sales forecast higher in 2017

Equipment sales and farm cash receipts are directly connected says Farm Credit Canada in a report released this week

By Allan Dawson June 28, 2016

When farmers make money they spend it — most often on land and equipment — to improve productivity. With total Canadian farm cash receipts projected to increase just 0.1 per cent this year, Farm Credit Canada (FCC) is forecasting a seven per cent drop in farm equipment sales for 2016 and a seven per cent

Local news

Farm equipment operator killed on Hwy. 83

A 63-year-old Roblin man died after a car crashed into the back of his tractor

By Lorraine Stevenson May 26, 2016

A Roblin-area man died May 15 when a car collided with the tractor he was driving on Hwy. 83. Police reported that just before 7 p.m. that evening they received a report of the crash between the two vehicles travelling northbound near road 139 North. Their investigation showed the car had collided with the back

Missing equipment found on a rural property southwest of Saskatoon in 2016 was valued at over $1.2 million. (Photo courtesy Saskatoon RCMP)

Livestock

Sask. rancher charged as missing equipment found

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 13, 2016

A western Saskatchewan cattle rancher faces charges of theft and possession of stolen goods after the discovery of missing tractors, balers, trucks and other equipment Thursday. Iain Stables, 38, is due in Provincial Court in Saskatoon on April 14 to answer to 29 criminal charges, Saskatoon RCMP said in a release Friday. Saskatoon and Warman

A John Deere air cart seeding system in the field. Photo: John Deere

Crops

Deere & Co. to buy Monsanto’s Precision Planting farm equipment business

By GFM Network News, P.J. Huffstutter November 3, 2015

Chicago/Reuters – Monsanto Co’s Climate Corp subsidiary on Tuesday announced a definitive agreement to sell its Precision Planting farm equipment business to Deere & Co for an undisclosed sum. The deal also allows nearly real-time data connections between certain John Deere farm equipment and Climate’s farming software programs, Climate FieldView. Climate will keep its digital farming

John Deere to acquire European farm equipment maker Monosem

By GFM Network News, Meredith Davis November 2, 2015

Reuters – Deere & Co. shares rose about 2 per cent on Monday after the company said it plans to acquire Monosem, a European family-owned farm equipment manufacturer that specializes in “precision planters” designed to increase crop production. Deere would not comment on the transaction’s financial details or Monosem’s revenues, but it does expect the

Crops, News

Fewer farm deaths, but still far too many

Improvements in farm equipment cited as main reason for a slight decline in farm fatalities

By Lorraine Stevenson October 23, 2015

Engineering improvements to farm equipment have made farming safer and are helping reduce the number of farm deaths each year in Canada — but only slightly. High numbers of farmers, their family members and farm workers still die on the job each year, according to updated data released last week by Canadian Agricultural Injury Reporting

Daily Network News

Complexity of being a woman in farming can lead to mental, physical health risks

Federal gov. funds youth employment in agriculture, agri-food

Pulse Weekly: StatCan projects fewer pea and lentil acres

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