Negotiations have begun with employees at AGCO’s combine harvester production facility in Denmark over proposals to close the facility next year. Assembly of straw walker and new “hybrid” combines would be transfered to the Breganze plant in Italy that AGCO co-owns with the Argo Group.

“Operating two separate combine plants in Western Europe is not practical,” says Gary Collar, senior vice president and general manager of AGCO’s European region. “As we move forward with product…