Galen Weston Jr., chair and president of Loblaw Companies Ltd., and Michael Medline, president and chief executive officer of Empire Company Ltd., was one of several grocery executives who appeared before a committee on Parliament Hill in early March.

Opinion: Keep political bitterness out of Canadian food

Examination of food price inflation offers opportunity for government to explain the components of food pricing

Glacier Farmmedia – Some things are more apparent than real. If the price of food jumps by 15 or 20 per cent due to rising global inflation, it is assumed the difference between today’s price and last year’s price is in someone’s pocket. But whose? Canadian politicians have an opportunity to explain the components of […] Read more

Farm equipment makers are challenged by many factors, most of which stem from COVID-19 in one way or another.

Machinery market remains hot, but sales cool

Machinery makers face shortages of parts, supply chain delays, rising costs for labour and transportation as COVID disrupts business

Glacier FarmMedia – Farm equipment sales are down for Canada and United States, with Canada showing significant reductions from last year on the largest gear. This year, four-wheel drive tractors and combines in Canada saw sales fall 22 per cent from last season at this time. American numbers were better, but followed the same trend, […] Read more


Opinion: Carbon tax exemptions needed

Bill C-234, a private member’s bill that would exempt more farm fuels from the carbon tax, promises to meet some of the federal government commitments made when the price on carbon was originally planned. It is superior to a government-initiated bill, C-8, now being considered in Parliament. In the initial plans to put a price […] Read more

Comment: Multiple factors at play for fertilizer price increase

Comment: Multiple factors at play for fertilizer price increase

High prices in Canada are in line with prices globally

Glacier FarmMedia – Pressures on commodity fertilizer prices are similar to those on grains and oilseeds. Supply isn’t meeting demand and costs are up. Some farm groups and many producers question the legitimacy of rising costs and they want answers. Prices in Canada for urea have more than tripled in the past two years and […] Read more



Fendt was once a brand best known as a premium product line in Europe, but with the addition of the Ideal combine and the new Momentum planter, along with the high-horsepower, fixed frame tractors, it is expanding in North America.

AGCO: More green, and black, machinery coming

Premium products like the Ideal combine and Momentum planter are showing up as Fendt-only products in North America

Glacier FarmMedia – As chair of the board, chief executive officer and president of AGCO, Eric Hansotia knows a few things about agricultural consolidation. The new chief has worked in the machinery world for about 30 years and spent a good deal of that time in technology development and delivery. He says AGCO’s approach to […] Read more

Opinion: Glyphosate a tool for farmers, not a politician’s tactic

Opinion: Glyphosate a tool for farmers, not a politician’s tactic

Glyphosate review aimed to bring Canada’s limits in line with international norms

Glacier FarmMedia – Ahead of a federal election call, three federal ministers called a halt to a process that would likely have yielded quick results on increasing the maximum residue limits for glyphosate applied to dry beans, lentils and peas. Regular reviews of the scientific data for safe levels of pesticides on food products and […] Read more

Krone said the design allows the machine to have three different densities for a single bale.

Krone baler gets belted build

Bales can be formed under more conditions in the new Krone baler

Glacier FarmMedia – Chains and slats were standard in round balers decades ago, but most manufacturers shifted to continuous belts. Germany’s Krone held out against that move, citing the reliability of chain systems to form a bale under nearly any forage harvesting conditions and the reliability of the all-metal design. The company will continue to […] Read more


The new cabs on the STS Hagie strayers are inspired by the Deere's new combine cabs. The design offers a very wide view of the up-front booms.

Keeping farmer’s machine, making it green

Hagie application tools get more Deere, but keep the layout and feel of the original machine designs

Glacier FarmMedia – For those producers who have owned or followed the history of the Hagie, the 2022 model year will offer substantial changes, but it appears to be keeping the elements that have made the Hagie machines unique. Born on Ray Hagie’s Clarion, Iowa, farm at the end of the Second World War, the […] Read more

With 36 cameras and up to a 120-foot steel boom, the new See and Spray option on Deere’s latest sprayers can reduce burn-off spray use by more than 75 per cent. The machines are limited to 12 miles per hour for application accuracy. From the time a camera sees a weed it is 200 milliseconds until spray is applied to it.

See and Spray springs from river of technical invention

New release tied to investment in Blue River application-technology company four years ago

Glacier FarmMedia – Find a weed and kill it. Ignore the crop and don’t waste any resources on non-pests. It’s easy to do strolling through a field with a hoe or spray nozzle in hand. Doing it over five- or 10-thousand acres in a tight time window is a bigger job. Blue River Technology sprang […] Read more