Michael Raine

An Ontario company is buying MacDon Industries, a Winnipeg manufacturer of agricultural equipment known for its windrowers and headers, for $1.2 billion.

A few acres up in the major crops will appear as big reductions for pulses and some special crops this year. However, there are exceptions. Cereal and

Off-quality canola processor Milligan BioFuels (Bio-Tech) of Foam Lake, Sask., has closed its doors. The well known buyer of heated, green otherwise

Canola fell on news that American soybeans are in ample supply and Brazil's crop still looms large. The USDA supply and demand report for March told a

Teamsters Canada and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers have provided Canadian Pacific Railway notice that the railroad's workers will

Elmira, Ont., dairy producers Henk and Bettina Schuurmans' trans-Canada trip to promote Canadian dairy ended in tragedy near Saskatoon July 9. The couple

Autonomous farming platform DOT has found its own path with a new partner. Raven Industries has acquired controlling interest in the DOT with Seedmaster's

Last week on a stage in Las Vegas, John Deere’s first autonomous tractor that farmers could order debuted without an acre of dirt in sight. It wasn’t a

A processor and exporter of Canadian flax remains confident about supplies despite plummeting acres in the United States. “We were a bit nervous on being

Federal agriculture minister Marie-Claude Bibeau tried last week in a round of media interviews to set the record straight on the government’s fertilizer