The state government is committed to ensuring the state is developed in terms of agriculture, and if the company becomes fully operational, in terms of output, the tractors that will be assembled, will serve the state and the country at large he said. The commissioner stated that the essence was to ensure farmers were provided with modern farm implements, to boost their productivity. The assemblage of the tractors in the state, would solve the problems of traveling abroad to source for...

CNH is one of the largest makers of agricultural equipment and ranks third in construction equipment manufacturing globally. Its farm equipment division, comprising 60 per cent of aggregate sales, includes tractors, harvesters, sprayers, and hay balers. The company also makes light industrial and construction equipment including backhoes, excavators, forklifts, miniloaders, and telescopic handlers. In order to invigorate its brands and better respond to customers' needs, the company took...

Smith/Daily News Jason Hodge (left), safety coordinator for the Division of Agriculture Education, Farm Safety and Farmland Preservation, talks to Warren Central High School freshman Ethan Thompson, 15, on Friday after a safety demonstration of a tractor rollover at the school. Smith/Daily News Jason Hodge (left), safety coordinator for the Division of Agriculture Education, Farm Safety and Farmland Preservation, talks to Warren Central High School freshman Ethan Thompson, 15, on Friday...

Participants submitted predictions for corn yield, corn harvested acres, soybean yield and soybean harvested acres. residents, who are above the age of majority and primarily and significantly involved in the agricultural and farming industry, as determined by Sponsor. The winner of the Iowa soybean yield and soybean harvested prediction contests, Jason Holthaus, who was the number three participant nationwide in terms of points accumulated, planned to redeem his points for a power sprayer...

Any customer buying a model year 2007 8030 Series tractor can now ask their local dealer for a demonstration of the AutoTrac guidance system on their tractor. This means that the tractors have all the internal hardware required to operate the company s automatic guidance system installed as standard equipment during the assembly process at the Waterloo tractor factory. With the reduction of overlaps during tillage work for example, farmers and contractors are able to lower their operating...

Consecutive hard freezes the past few nights, including wind and snow flurries this past weekend, struck budding strawberry and blueberry patches just as they were most vulnerable. In an unscientific sample Monday of longtime area fruit growers, those with no irrigation to protect their plants were reporting devastation. She had to stay up several nights to ensure that the farms irrigation equipment kept working even to the point of beating ice off a couple of sprinkler heads that had...

The tractors and the ladder were in an unlocked garage. She named at least eight other locations and said they were all believed to be related. Her tractors had also been spray-painted. Donn Reid, someone spray-painted the word "Choker" on the west side of the stone residence in the 300 block of Lancaster Pike. Two John Deere lawn tractors and one Massey Ferguson farm tractor, as well as a metal step ladder, were also spray-painted with orange spray-paint. All were done in spray-paint,...

The program presumes development of infrastructure for NGV-refuelling compressor stations and increasing the number of cars and agricultural equipment working on compressed natural gas (CNG) Gazprom approved the program of gas filling stations network development and a vehicle park working on natural gas in 2007-2015, said in the company's announcement. Gazprom approved the program of gas filling stations network development that presumes construction of 200 filling stations. Nowadays 218...

A Fort Thomas farmer decided to try a delivery system that promises to use less water with less labor while helping to prevent soil erosion as well. Now that he has his own 40-acre farm, he decided to find a way to better irrigate his crops. Motes sought help from the United States Dairy Association/National Resources Conservation Service, and one of its representatives, Eddie Foster, visited Motes farm, coordinated a resource assessment of his land and suggested he put in drip-system...