by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Sep 21, 2021 | News
GLTPA Expo Hosts Barko Loader Contest As part of the Great Lakes Timber Professionals Assn. (GLTPA) Logging & Heavy Equipment Expo in Escanaba, Mich., Barko held a loader contest that tested the operating skills of participants by requiring them to move six logs...
by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Sep 20, 2021 | News
Deere Purchases Robotics Company In August 2021, Deere agreed to purchase California-based Bear Flag Robotics, an agricultural technology company specializing in autonomous tractors, for $250 million. Specifically, technologies developed by Bear Flag Robotics allow...
by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Sep 15, 2021 | News
Forest Service Helps Defend 9/11 Witness Trees Twenty years have passed since the 9/11 attacks, yet there’s a feeling of permanence in a hemlock grove that stands where so many lives were lost that day in southwestern Pennsylvania. Here, the Flight 93 National...
by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Sep 15, 2021 | News
New OSB Mill For Saskatchewan One Sky Forest Products Ltd. (One Sky), together with its Indigenous partners, is moving forward with the development of a best-in-class commodity oriented strandboard (OSB) facility in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. One Sky has brought...
by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Sep 15, 2021 | News
ACQUISITION MERGES NORTRAX, SCHMIDT Fernandez Holdings, Inc., which owns a diverse portfolio of businesses, including 57 John Deere Ag and Turf dealerships in the Northeast and South Central U.S., has acquired 14 John Deere Construction and Forestry stores—nine...
by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Sep 14, 2021 | News
Michigan’s Dept. of Natural Resources (MDNR) and the USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) are co-hosting a webinar about USDA’s Pandemic Assistance for Timber Harvesters and Haulers Program (PATHH) on Sept. 16, 2021, at 9 a.m. EDT. Participants can join the meeting by going...
