The grant will be administered by Innovation Saskatchewan AGF to research and test at broadacre farms in Saskatchewan and Alberta. During 2021, Barnstorm also raised $1 million in seed funding from individual investors and two angel syndicates.

The partners expect to move to clean mobility by leveraging their complementary competencies of Air Liquide’s expertise across the entire hydrogen value chain and IVECO’s legacy as a provider of advanced, clean, sustainable transport solutions.

Deere & Company has signed a definitive agreement to acquire majority ownership in Kreisel Electric, a battery technology provider based in Austria.

The author, Gary Schilling, cited Deere & Co., and its plans to accelerate production off the heels of the just-concluded 5-week strike, to meet robust demand and rebuild inventories (see Assn. of Equipment Manufacturers bullish report on December 10, 2021).

Growth in both ag tractors and combine harvesters continues in the U.S., while a slowdown in harvesters in Canada brings overall unit sales slightly below 2020 north of the border, according to the latest data from the Assn. of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM).