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Machinery, Markets

Equipment sales expected to soften in 2024

Interest rates, equipment prices and commodity prices will all play a role, says FCC

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According to FCC's 2024 outlook for the Canadian farm equipment market, new sales are projected to be softer in 2024 based on three factors: higher interest rates, elevated equipment prices and a decline in commodity prices.
Note the position of the original seal before removing it. It will help ensure the replacement is driven into the correct depth on the housing.
Machinery

How to properly install a new seal

Tips to help you get the job done right to stop leaks on machinery

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Glacier FarmMedia – Replacing leaking seals on machines is one of the most common on-farm repairs. It isn’t particularly difficult, but not getting a replacement seal seated correctly means wasted time, effort and money. Here are a few tips to make sure the replacement goes in properly and, most importantly, stops the leak. First, pay […] Read more
Anti-tank ‘hedgehogs’ are seen in Maidan Nezalezhnosti Square in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, on March 9, 2022. Farmers are among those assembling the obstacles, set up to block roads against advancing armoured vehicles. (Yevhen Kotenko/Ukrinform/Abacapress.com via Reuters)
Crops

Bread and war: Farmers in the fight for Ukraine

Agriculture, being the most important industry in Ukraine, will play a large part in the war, a Ukrainian ag journalist writes

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It is very difficult to explain what a person feels when they’re awakened at 5 a.m., when a rocket explodes near their house. That’s exactly what I experienced Feb. 24. The first thing I did was fill my car with gasoline. Then we bought a lot of products we thought we might need — medicines […] Read more
File photo of a view near the Canadian end of the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Windsor and Detroit and is considered one of North America’s busiest trade routes. (Steven_Kriemadis/iStock/Getty Images)
Machinery

Pandemic border protests strand cattle and car parts

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Ottawa | Reuters — Protests in Canada against vaccine mandates have disrupted two key U.S. border crossings, and are snarling hundreds of millions of dollars daily of trade, ranging from cattle to car parts. Demonstrations who at first demanded an end to federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates for cross-border truck drivers began Jan. 28 in the […] Read more
Machinery, News

Stoltz Sales & Service and Hub International merge to form Equipment Ontario

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Case IH equipment dealers Stoltz Sales & Service and Hub International are merging their two organizations to form Equipment Ontario, effective Dec. 1, 2021.  Together they will service more than 16 counties with dealership locations in Elmira, Lindsay, Listowel, Mildmay, and Port Perry. A future location in Simcoe County is planned.  In a press release, […] Read more
File: A farmer holding tools on August 19, 2021.
Machinery

American farmers’ right to repair powered by the president

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Glacier FarmMedia – U.S. President Joe Biden has issued an executive order on a farmer’s right to repair equipment. Biden signed the order July 9 that asks the Federal Trade Commission to force large manufacturers, including tech companies and agricultural equipment makers, to let consumers repair their own devices or use the technician of their […] Read more

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