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Toromont to buy Cat dealer Hewitt

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Reuters — Toromont Industries said Monday it would buy privately held Hewitt Group for about $1.02 billion in cash and shares to expand its network of heavy equipment dealers in Eastern Canada. Through the deal, Concord, Ont.-based Toromont will acquire Hewitt’s 45 Caterpillar dealerships in Quebec, the Maritimes, Labrador and Ontario, increasing the number of
Danny Mann, professor and head of the department of biosystems engineering at University of Manitoba stands on the mock-up staircase built at the university so researchers could compare access paths on farm equipment, including the steps, angles and spacing and how different designs impacted knee joints of users.
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Safety by design

Farmer feedback builds safer equipment

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A guy walks into a tool department with his thumb bandaged, complaining about his new hammer. It keeps hitting two inches to the left. That’s actually not a joke. As any carpenter will tell you, you can hammer all day with a good hammer that’s the right fit for your hand, but if you use
A municipal worker points to where unusually fast water flows washed out a culvert upstream from the Von Bargen farmyard.
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Ranchers hit by wall of water demand post-flood answers

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 Sitting as it does on a kind of plateau north of the highlands of Riding Mountain National Park, it’s hard to believe that this area could be flooded at all. But a flash flood did sweep through the century-old farmyard of cattle producers Karen and Craig Von Bargen on April 28 — causing six-figure losses
Protesting farmers used farm equipment to temporarily block access to the Portage Diversion April 29.  Photo: shannon vanraes
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Farmers, government spar over use of Portage Diversion

The channel ‘park-in’ demonstration by Lake Manitoba farmers and landowners 
was aimed at bringing attention to the government’s handling of 2011 flood

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A protest by 60 fed-up Lake Manitoba-area farmers and landowners at the Portage Diversion April 29 was still making waves this week as organizers prepared for a court hearing into the province’s injunction against them. Kevin Yuill, who farms about 3,000 acres north of Portage la Prairie, organized the event that saw tractors and heavy
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Sleepless in Manitoba? Expert offers tips for spending quality time in slumberland

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Sleep specialist says there are diagnostic methods and treatments for those with sleep disorders, 
and simple lifestyle changes that can help the rest of us

This was a speech that put no one to sleep. But with any luck, it will later. “Sleepless in Manitoba — staying awake on the job” was the title of a presentation given by Dr. Carlyle Smith, a psychology professor and director of Trent University’s sleep research laboratories at last week’s Ag Days. A restless
Crops, News, Oilseeds

Flax plant’s future up in the air

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The flames that consumed the Glanbia flax-processing plant south of Angusville were doused last week, but a smouldering sense of uncertainty lingers. The plant formerly owned by Glen and Linda Pizzey was the largest employer in the RM of Silver Creek, providing not only 58 good-paying, full-time jobs, but also a large chunk of the
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MacDon to manufacture windrowers for John Deere

Staff / Winnipeg-based machinery farm equipment maker MacDon Industries will be the manufacturer for several lines of self-propelled windrowers and mower conditioners to be sold worldwide under John Deere paint. U.S.-based ag and heavy equipment giant Deere and Co. announced a “strategic agreement” Jan. 27 with Winnipeg-based MacDon, allowing Deere to expand its hay and
News, Weather

Why Hoop And Holler Site Was Chosen

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Once only known to locals as a former destination for some whooping and hollering, this oxbow is now a national icon as the place where flood fighters tried something never done before in this province. Choosing this site for a deliberate breach makes sense despite the protests of local farmers that it will affect highly
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Crossing Regulations Inked, Abandonment Still Undecided

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Aprotocol for crossi ng pipelines has been established, but the contentious issue of pipel ine abandonment is still undecided, members of the Manitoba Pipeline Landowners Association (MPLA) heard at a meeting last week. Dan Hacault, an MPLA director, said that the new regulations that were hammered out by the National Energy Board late last year

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