Farm equipment shopper website AGDealer.com has launched a new version of itself for smartphone users, providing equipment listings through a fully-featured mobile app. Through its app, AGDealer allows farmers to search its listings, save specific listings of interest, and get quick links to contact sellers. The app, which today provides over 30,000 ag equipment listings, […] Read more
AgDealer lanches mobile app
Outdoor Farm Show goes mobile
Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show has added a mobile experience for its 20th-anniversary event. The show, which this year runs from Tuesday to Thursday (Sept. 10-12) and is billed as the largest agricultural trade show in the country, now offers a mobile site for smartphone users — as well as fully-featured mobile apps for iPhone, Blackberry […] Read more
StatsCan may use satellites, not farmers, to measure crop size
Statistics Canada may scrap one of its annual farmer surveys on crop yields in favour of a report that uses satellite data to estimate production. StatsCan, the national statistical agency, said the satellite data was producing increasingly similar results to its September farmer survey on yields of wheat, canola and other crops, and the change […] Read more
BIXS reboot expected to ease access to carcass data
Ranchers who don’t double as computer geeks may be pleased to hear that the Beef InfoXchange System (BIXS) is due for an update aimed at smoothing out its rough edges. Larry Thomas, the national co-ordinator for the program supported by the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA), said that after almost two years in operation, the online […] Read more
Maple Leaf to sell renderer Rothsay
The largest rendering company in the U.S. has signed a cash deal to buy Rothsay, the rendering arm of food processing giant Maple Leaf Foods and Canada’s top animal byproduct recycler. Texas-based Darling International will pay $645 million for Rothsay, including its six rendering plants in Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia and its biodiesel […] Read more
Olymel hog plant back operating after ammonia leak
An Olymel hog slaughter and processing plant in Quebec’s Beauce region is back up and running, after about a week offline due to an ammonia leak in a refrigerated area. The Quebec pork and poultry company’s plant at Vallee-Jonction, which can slaughter up to 37,500 hogs per week, mostly for export, suspended operations Aug. 12 […] Read more
Deere profit jumps; concerns over farm-belt spending
Deere and Co. reported higher-than-expected quarterly profit on Wednesday on strong sales of its tractors and harvesters in the Americas. But concerns that farm-belt spending and commodity prices were poised to weaken sent shares lower. Earlier this year, Deere, the world’s largest maker of agricultural equipment, lowered its outlook for fiscal 2013 revenue, saying a […] Read more
Video: Adjust your combine for crop condition
It’s a common misconception that the settings laid out in the operator’s manual will give a producer perfect performance from his or her combine every time. As Les Hill, ag and bioresources program director with the Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute (PAMI), tells Grainews machinery editor Scott Garvey in this video, every combine needs to be […] Read more
U.S. EPA expects to reduce biofuels volumes for 2014
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday maintained its overall target for biofuel use in 2013, but said it would use its authority to lower the volume goal for 2014 from the current requirement. The decision to adjust biofuel targets for 2014 should offer relief to refiners squeezed by rising prices for renewable fuel credits, […] Read more
TPG Capital LP among MacDon bidders
TPG Capital LP is one of the final bidders for MacDon Industries Ltd, a Winnipeg-based manufacturer of agricultural machinery looking to sell itself for around $1 billion, three people familiar with the matter said July 8. The private equity firm is working on making a binding bid for MacDon by the mid-July deadline for final […] Read more
