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Six numbers in agriculture to make you stop and think

It isn’t as quiet as you might think on the home front. Yes, today’s farms seem stable, but the next evolutionary wave is gaining energy

By Maggie Van Camp March 18, 2016

In 2009, total Canadian net farm income was $2.8 billion. Four years later, it was $10 billion more, with Statistics Canada’s saying a $5.6-billion rise in the total value of farm-owned inventories from the year before accounted for almost all of the increase in total net income in 2013 That inventory increase came from a[...]
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Crops, Machinery

Farm groups rail against revenue cap proposal

By Dave Sims March 5, 2016

CNS Canada –– A key proposal in the recently released Canada Transportation Act review on Canada’s transport systems is getting thumbs down from several Prairie farm groups. The Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan (APAS) disagrees with the report’s recommendation for a seven-year phase-out of the maximum revenue entitlement (MRE), an annual upper limit on the[...]
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Machinery

VIDEO: eQuipTV: “Big Roy” 3: A tractor ahead of its time

By Scott Garvey March 3, 2016

Reading Time: < 1 minute Scott Garvey pays another visit to the Versatile plant in Winnipeg to get an update on Big Roy’s restoration and gets some history on the big eight-wheel-drive tractor from Grant Adolph, Versatile’s COO. Video editing by Greg Berg.

Crops, Machinery, Reuters

CP mulls litigation over opposition to Norfolk Southern deal

By Allison Lampert, Nick Carey March 2, 2016

Reuters — Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) said Wednesday it is looking at all legal options in response to what it described as concerted efforts by certain U.S. railroads to block its proposed merger with Norfolk Southern. “It is unfortunate that CP must consider the use of litigation to ensure a level playing field and protect[...]
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Crops, Machinery, Weather

Spring road bans to slow grain movement across Prairies

By Phil Franz-Warkentin February 25, 2016

CNS Canada –– Spring road bans are starting to be put into place across Western Canada as temperatures warm up in the Prairie provinces. The annual restrictions set axle weight limits for vehicles moving on certain roads in an effort to reduce the damage heavier loads can cause during the spring thaw period. Grain and[...]
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Crops, Machinery, Reuters

Transport review urges scrapping railway grain revenue cap

By Rod Nickel February 25, 2016

Winnipeg | Reuters — Ottawa should phase out over seven years its cap on the amount of revenue railways can earn transporting grain, a study for the Canadian government recommended Thursday, a move long urged by railways and opposed by farmers and grain handlers. A review of Canadian transportation laws, aimed at modernizing the system,[...]
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Crops, Machinery

Ritchie Bros. buys Mascus online equipment sites

By Alberta Farmer Staff February 21, 2016

The Canadian operators of the world’s biggest equipment auctioneer have bought worldwide online equipment listing service Mascus. Burnaby, B.C.-based Ritchie Bros. announced Friday it has bought 100 per cent of the equity in Amsterdam-based Mascus for 24 million euros (C$36.8 million), plus up to 3.4 million euros (C$5.2 million) more, pending certain performance targets being[...]
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Beef Cattle, Livestock, Machinery, Markets

Cargill to supply Alberta carcass data to BIXS

By Alberta Farmer Staff February 19, 2016

One of Canada’s biggest beef packers is set to supply the specs on beef carcasses processed at its Alberta plant to the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association’s (CCA) BIXS information-sharing system. Cargill and BIXSCo, the CCA-backed operators of BIXS (Beef InfoXchange System), announced Thursday that the multinational agrifood firm will provide its past three years of beef[...]
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Crops, Machinery, Weather

Saskatchewan to halt winter weights early in southwest

By Alberta Farmer Staff February 19, 2016

Weight allowances that let heavier grain trucks roll on more southwestern Saskatchewan highways over the winter will end a week early, thanks to recent mild weather. The province’s highways ministry announced Friday it will remove the winter weight allowances on secondary-weight highways in the southwest region effective Monday (Feb. 22). “While frozen roads provide a[...]
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Crops, Machinery, Markets, Reuters

Smaller vessels bump up ocean freight index

By Reuters February 19, 2016

Reuters — The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, tracking rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, marginally rose on Friday on improved rates for smaller vessels. The overall Baltic Dry Index (BDI), which gauges the cost of shipping resources including iron ore, cement, grain, coal and fertilizer, rose for the sixth consecutive session by[...]
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