In the fall of 2015 MacDon Industries Ltd. opened of its new state of the art Parts Distribution Centre (PDC) in Winnipeg, Manitoba.“Our goal is to provide World Class Parts Services for all owners of MacDon manufactured equipment wherever they are located in the world. The new PDC is the key to serving our MacDon parts distribution network in Canada, United States, Australia, Europe, Russia, Brazil, and other parts of the world, allowing us to achieve this goal,” says Jason Klassen, Vice President Global Parts Operations at MacDon.
WITH THE EXTRA MOISTURE WE THOUGHT WE SHOULD TRY TO FIND WAYS TO REAP SIMILAR YIELDS TO THOSE EXPERIENCED IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD.
In Perdue, Saskatchewan, the Scharf name is known for more than the family’s 13,000 acre (5260 ha) farm located west of town. It’s also tied to the town’s spectacular 18 hole golf course (Perdue Oasis) as well as the product EZEEWRAP®, an internationally distributed kitchen plastic wrap dispenser that has become a very successful business for the family, which is elebrating its 30th year.
GOING TO MACDON’S DRAPER WAS JUST NIGHT AND DAY. THE DIFFERENCE WAS NOTICEABLE IN WHEAT, BUT EVEN MORE SO IN SOYBEANS.
Custom harvesters are, by definition, confident people. After all, if your livelihood depends on being able to cut any crop no matter how bad the conditions, it helps to have a little faith that things are going to work out in your favor.
THEY GET TO UNDERSTAND THE COSTS OF FARMING AND THE IMPACT OF A GREAT CROP OR A POOR CROP ON THEIR BUSINESS.
Every September, just around the time the leaves start to change, hundreds of Winnipeg children are plucked from the comfortable warmth of their classrooms, and loaded onto busses for a short journey to one of two research farms south of the city. For most of the kids it will be the first time they’ve been anywhere near a farm.
WE’VE CHANGED MOTORS, TRANSMISSIONS, REAR ENDS, SPRINGS, BRAKES – YOU NAME IT – IN THE PARKING LOT OF A HOTEL ON MULTIPLE OCCASIONS.
Describing it as "the hardest thing to win I’ve ever been involved with," Bobby Hadskey and his partner G.R. Pike navigated their way across 2,600 miles (4184 km) of American backroads in their MacDon co-sponsored 1916 Hudson Indy Racer to win the 2016 edition of The Great Race. It was the second time Hadskey and Pike had triumphed
HE BELIEVED THAT IF YOU WORKED TOGETHER AND SOLVED YOUR PROBLEMS TOGETHER, THEN YOU GREW TOGETHER.
According to those who knew him best, Joe MacDonald would have been “shocked” by his induction into the Association of Equipment Manufacturers Hall of Fame, November 4th, 2015.