Two farm equipment companies in the Netherlands whose products are sold in the U.S. and Canada plan to merge their operations by the end of the year.

Schuitemaker and Veenhuis will maintain their brand names on the products they are most associated with while consolidating production at one site and sharing sales, marketing and administration resources.

Veenhuis, which has 40 staff, is focused on manure and AD digestate spreading tankers and hose-reel application systems for…