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Major Deere dealer sheds stake in Prairie chain

By Alberta Farmer Staff December 22, 2016

Canada’s biggest Deere dealership group has sold its minority stake in a Prairie dealership chain back to the chain’s majority owners. Calgary-based Cervus Equipment Corp. said Wednesday it has sold its 21.449 per cent of Maple Farms Partnership, owner of the Maple Farm Equipment chain of Deere farm equipment dealerships, back to Maple for about […] Read more

Crops, Machinery

Deere to license Precision Planting wares to Ag Leader

By Alberta Farmer Staff October 12, 2016

Iowa precision ag equipment maker Ag Leader will be able to make and sell high-speed planting equipment using certain systems from Precison Planting — when, or if, Deere and Co. seals its deal to buy the latter company. Deere and Ag Leader announced Wednesday they will have a licensing agreement in place allowing Ag Leader to […] Read more

Machinery

What’s new in tractors

A roundup of the recent tractor introductions and updates making news this fall

By Scott Garvey September 28, 2016

There’s been no shortage of news this season when it comes to new tractor model unveilings and improvements to existing machines. Virtually every brand had something new to show off this year on that front. Many of those new machines debuted at the U.S. Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa, in August. To help you[...]
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Norman and Judy Erickson’s farm near Viking was the place to be on Aug. 13, when 74 antique tractors (all but three completely restored) went on the auction block. More than 1,000 people came from across the Prairies and Ontario, with online bidders joining from the U.S. and the United Kingdom for the sale handled by Dunkle Auction Services. A very rare 1938 John Deere “D” with the exhaust manifold and the air intake on the right-hand side (only three are known to exist in the world) sold for $29,000. The smallest John Deere ever made — a seven-horsepower LA model — sold online for $12,000.

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Antique tractors at auction offer a trip back through time

By Alberta Farmer Staff September 8, 2016

Reading Time: < 1 minute Norman and Judy Erickson’s farm near Viking was the place to be on Aug. 13, when 74 antique tractors (all but three completely restored) went on the auction block. More than 1,000 people came from across the Prairies and Ontario, with online bidders joining from the U.S. and the United Kingdom for the sale handled[...]
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A John Deere air cart seeding system in the field. Photo: John Deere

Crops, Machinery

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

By 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[...]
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Machinery

John Deere to acquire European farm equipment maker Monosem

By 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[...]
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Crops, Machinery, Markets, Reuters

Deere cuts profit forecast as farm equipment sales decline

By Reuters February 20, 2015

Reuters — Farm equipment maker Deere and Co. posted a 43 per cent fall in first-quarter profit and cut its full-year profit forecast as lower corn prices and weak farm income weighed on demand for agricultural machinery. The company, which gets nearly two-thirds of its revenue from farm and turf machinery, cut its 2015 net[...]
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Crops, Machinery, Reuters

Deere to cut over 900 U.S. workers as ag economy weakens

By Tom Polansek January 23, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — Deere and Co., the world’s largest maker of farm equipment, will lay off more than 900 employees at plants in Iowa and Illinois in the latest round of job cuts spurred by a decline in grain prices that is hurting demand for agricultural machinery. The layoffs, which represent about three per[...]
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Heartland

Four Albertans win Deere 4-H scholarships

By 4-H Canada August 28, 2014

Reading Time: < 1 minute Rebecca Marie Carlson of Blackie, Casey Morey of Rochester, Heidi Trenson of Rimbey and Lisa Krista Jakobsen of Calgary are among 15 winners of John Deere 4-H scholarships for 2014. The scholarships of $1,000 each go toward a post-secondary education related to agricultural/mechanical trades, engineering, science, business, or health. Applications were reviewed by a panel[...]
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Gordon Gilchrist shows off the oldest tractor in his antique John Deere collection — a 1924 Model D.

Heartland

No stopping Wainwright man’s passion for John Deere tractors

By Jennifer Blair July 3, 2014

Reading Time: 2 minutes In 1952, 18-year-old Gordon Gilchrist arrived in Alberta from Ontario with a shopping bag in one hand and a gramophone suitcase in the other. Back home, his family farmed with horses. But when he came to Alberta, the Ontario teen found work with a farmer north of Edgerton who introduced him to John Deere tractors.[...]
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