RealAgriculture is continuing to see growth in sales, and as a result, we are pleased to announce our newest team member: Brad Martin. As of this week, Martin will work alongside the current customer experience and sales team --- Rhett Soveran (Product Manager), Christiana Bach (Sales Coordinator) and Tricia Haney (Accounts Receivables) --- to manage... Read More
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Deere & Company is investing in machine learning for farm equipment, announcing a US$305 million deal to fully acquire Blue River Technology. "We welcome the opportunity to work with a Blue River Technology team that is highly skilled and intensely dedicated to rapidly advancing the implementation of machine learning in agriculture," said John May, President,... Read More
Saskatoon-based Morris Industries has undergone a change in ownership, with private investors injecting new capital into the farm equipment manufacturer. Ben Voss, together with Calgary-based Avrio Capital and Lamont Brown Group, have acquired a majority stake in the business from outgoing CEO Casey Davis. Voss, who's served as president since 2015, has also replaced Davis... Read More
Federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay and his provincial counterpart from B.C., Lana Popham, are committing up to $20 million through an AgriRecovery program to help ranchers and farmers affected by wildfires. The 2017 Canada-British Columbia Wildfires Recovery Initiative will assist producers with the extraordinary costs incurred to recover , and will be cost-shared 60:40 between... Read More
AGCO has formally completed its purchase of Precision Planting from The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Monsanto. The deal was originally announced in July, after Climate Corp cancelled a deal to sell Precision Planting to John Deere. "We will expand the benefits of Precision Planting’s innovation by reaching more growers with a broader global distribution... Read More
Agriculture groups are among more than 40 national organizations that have formed a coalition to fight the federal government's proposed tax changes for incorporated businesses. The Coalition for Small Business Tax Fairness sent a letter to Finance Minister Bill Morneau asking him to take the proposal off the table. "In ten years at the Canadian... Read More
The Dow Chemical Company and E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company say they have successfully completed their merger announced in December 2015, and are now operating as a holding company under the name DowDuPont.
Five of Manitoba's agricultural commodity groups are working towards a potential merger. In May, the groups signed a memorandum of understanding and this month made significant steps towards their goal of completing phase one by April 2018. The merger steering committee met with Synthesis Agri-Food Network's Rob Hannam in Carman, Manitoba. There, they discussed how... Read More
StatsCan released its production estimates for principal field crops and not surprisingly the estimated production is down in comparison to 2016. You can find the entire StatsCan report here Here is how some market analysts reacted to the report. There is some doubt as you would expect on some of the numbers released. Brian Voth... Read More
Farm Credit Canada (FCC) has announced that it will be offering support to customers in parts of eastern Ontario and western Quebec. The regions were affected by excessive rainfall this growing season, which meant many producers were unable to seed on time or at all. Others were forced to replant. And a number who did... Read More