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Fire Destroys Central Illinois Ag

July 2, 2013 | Posted in Manufacturer News
Source: ABC News Channel 20 (Springfield, Ill.)
Clean up continues at the scene of a weekend fire that destroyed the offices of a Logan County business. The fire started early Sunday morning at Central Illinois Ag, a local Case IH dealership in Atlanta. Fire officials say a passerby on the interstate spotted flames just after two a.m. Dozens of local and neighboring firefighters came out to battle the blaze, but it still took hours to get it under control.
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AGCO Names New Senior Vice President of Global Harvesting and Advanced Technology Solutions

July 1, 2013 | Posted in Dealers on the Move
AGCO, Your Agriculture Company AGCO +0.48% , a worldwide manufacturer and distributor of agricultural equipment, today named Eric Hansotia Senior Vice President, Global Harvesting and Advanced Technology Solutions. "We are very pleased to announce that Eric Hansotia has joined our executive team," said Martin Richenhagen, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of AGCO. "He will be responsible for a global team of professionals focused on the development, sales, product management and support for global harvesting equipment as well as for precision agriculture and connectivity technology for all AGCO machinery."
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Bobcat Renovates Bismarck Production Facility Following Operations Expansion

June 28, 2013 | Posted in Manufacturer & Dealer Issues
Source: http://youtu.be/nt5YUqk8fg4.

Bobcat Company has completed a $6.5 million renovation at its Bismarck, N.D., production facility. The renovation makes the facility more conducive to Bobcat compact attachment production, which moved to Bismarck as part of an operations expansion last year. It also provides a more collaborative environment for non-production positions.


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Planted Acres for Corn, Soybeans, Wheat Up Slightly for 2013

June 28, 2013 | Posted in Manufacturer News
Today, USDA released its crop acreage planted report and acreage of all major commodities crops is estimated to be up slightly from 2012 except for cotton. Corn planted area for all purposes in 2013 is estimated at 97.4 million acres, up slightly from last year. This represents the highest planted acreage in the United States since 1936 when an estimated 102 million acres were planted. Growers expect to harvest 89.1 million acres for grain, up 2% from last year.
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Industry Steps Forward to Help Expand Training Program

June 27, 2013 | Posted in Dealer Succession
Source: By Kelly Malone, News Talk 560 CKOM
The labour shortage in Saskatchewan means that there is more work than qualified workers. The Canada West Equipment Dealers Association (CWEDA) recognized that many of their dealerships did not have enough machinery technicians. They decided to contribute $57,000 to cover half the costs of expanding SIAST's Agricultural Machinery Technician certificate program (AMT).
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Purdue's ISOBlue Project Aims to Make Precision Farming Data More Open

June 26, 2013 | Posted in Product Innovations & Introductions
In an effort to free farmers from vendor-controlled data, Purdue University has launched ISOBlue, an open-source project that aims to provide farmers, via smartphone, with easy access to agricultural data gathered by the industry-standard ISOBUS port located on tractors, harvesters and equipment. FarmLogs, the company that created user-friendly farm management software and mobile apps to help farm
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