Tariffs throw US, Canadian farm machinery manufacturers into turmoil

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We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
In March, Case IH, an agricultural equipment manufacturer based in Racine, Wisconsin, and owned by global giant CNH Industrial, notified hundreds of workers in North Dakota and Minnesota of layoffs. The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The uncertainty is scaring off farmers from buying equipment imported from the U.S., farmers and salespeople said in interviews.

In Saskatchewan, the Canadian province where much of the country's spring wheat, canola and durum is grown for export, farmers will be very cautious about capital spending, said Bill Prybylski, president of the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan, with tens of thousands of members, as he gestured his thumb towards a giant green John Deere combine at the March farm show.

 
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