Tariffs throw us in the confusion of farm farm machinery in Canada

By Ed White

Regina, Saskatchewan (Reuters) – around the last farm show in Canada, equipment sellers fought for farmers with farmers worried about tariffs.

Some combined combinations would be a hit from a tariff for more than $ 800,000, the most farm budget would be easily accepted.

Canada rescued a wide global tariff for the Trump administration on April 2, but was faced with tariffs against the United States in accordance with steel and aluminum exports, as well as the US-Mexican-Canada-Canada-Canada contract.

On Friday, Canada farmers said they were not known whether agricultural machinery or the retaliatory tariffs in Canada were subjected to the retaliatory tariffs. Sorting details can take several weeks.

Meanwhile, farmers have reduced the appetite for new combinations, tractors and other farm equipment and producers are retreated.

In March, a manufacturer of agricultural machinery owned by Racine, Wisconsin and the Global Giant CNH industry, warned hundreds of employees in North Dakota and Minnesota. The company immediately did not meet the desire to comment.

Uncertainty farmers are to intimidate the equipment imported from the United States, farmers and vendors resisting in reports.

In Saskatchewan, in the province of Canada, the country grew up for the export of Spring wheat, Canola and Durum, Bill Prybylski, who is the President of the Taskatchewan Agricultural Manufacturers Union, a giant green John Deere in the March Farm Show

In other place in the teeming halls of the show, farmers received products, tissues, sprinkers and rokepickers, but they saw few people.

Manufacturers also struggled with fear of being caught in the wrong side of the tariff.

“Currently, we have many balls in the air and really do not really know,” he said.

Talks for a year or more before delivery of machine purchases, it is negotiating for a year or more, when large tariffs come, a product can cost a lot.

“We have supported the” to buy new farm machines, “he said.” We decided to hang on our longer unification. “

Jochum, like most farmers, gets cars from all over the world: Claas combines in Germany and the United States; American Agco tractors and work sprayer; a Canadian Bourgault Seered.