Japanese tractor company Kubota has announced a deal to purchase Salina, Kansas-based equipment-maker Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc. Kubota will acquire 100 percent of Great Plains' shares for a stock price of approximately US$430 million, subject to provisions in the agreement. The deal expands on a North American alliance Kubota had with Great Plains' turf and... Read More
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Three engineering students from the University of Regina won an international ag robotics competition in Indiana last week. The agBOT Challenge saw teams compete to build the most efficient, unmanned seeder, capable of planting two different varieties in half-mile passes while maintaining control and providing data back to the operator (see the lengthy and impressive... Read More
Rain, and even some snow, has slowed seeding progress on the prairies, but nobody's complaining. Cool temperatures, meanwhile, are hampering planting in Ontario and creating some nutrient issues, as we hear from Whete Pete. There are new reports of Bayer and BASF considering bids for Monsanto, soybean markets soared thanks to the USDA and barbecue... Read More
It's been an exciting year for Fendt's forage branch. The company presented their brand new rotary hay rake at Agritechnica in November and have since received two silver awards for the innovation. The first, from Agritechnica itself, and the second from the International Agricultural Machinery Fair, FIMA, in Spain. "We believe that there is a... Read More
Picture Butte, AB – May 11, 2016 – With traffic and revenue increasing at an aggressive pace, the time has come for RealAgriculture to add to its team to ensure clients have the best experience possible. Relationships with clients have always been integral to the success of RealAgriculture and as opportunities increase, it becomes even... Read More
Wondering why your winter wheat is looking so...blah? Or how it can be safe to seed soybeans when it's still cold outside? Peter Johnson, resident agronomist for RealAgriculture, returns to answer questions and share his agronomic insight in his weekly update — the Word. Have a question for Wheat Pete? Call 1-888-746-3311, send him a... Read More
In the pursuit of healthy living, we're working against some pretty incredible obstacles, like 6 million years of evolutionary biology and 15 thousand years of human civilization. At least, that's how founding director of Yale University's Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center and president of the American College of Livestyle Medicine, David Katz explains it. "We live... Read More
The USDA sent the oilseed market soaring on Tuesday with the release of its May supply/demand report, which included the first estimates for 2016-17 ending stocks. Old and new crop soybean futures spiked more than 50 cents/bushel, with the nearby July contract hitting the daily limit of 65 cents at one point. Soymeal futures finished... Read More
News of the growth and success of the Canadian Dairy XPO helped attract a number of international companies to the Stratford, Ontario industry showcase. CDX, which for 2016 moved from its traditional February dates to April 6 and 7, attracted 14,900 visitors over two days. Farmers visiting the new WeCover Cow Coliseum discovered a hub... Read More
Early last week, leaders from the Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (CRSB) met with Earls Restaurants to discuss sustainable sourcing. By mid-week, the company announced it had made a mistake. "I think it was unfortunate that it happened in the first place," Fawn Jackson, executive director of the CRSB, told Shaun Haney in an interview,... Read More