Fortunately, it is no longer deemed necessary to send tens of thousands of men underground, but accidents still happen on farms with a depressing regularity. Farming is a dangerous industry, but it is also nowadays to a large extent a solitary occupation with relatively few people employed on farms. NFU Mutual, the company that has the lion's share of the insurance business on UK farms, reckons it paid out 50 million last year on claims relating to tractors and self-propelled equipment....

Farmers Guardian Over 2500 classifieds in. Together with extensive arable farming equipment, a combine harvester and tractors, the sale included a selection of well maintained implements including cultivation and harvest machinery, trailers, livestock handling apparatus and over 200 lots of workshop and traditional hand tools. Farmers Guardian Over 2500 classifieds in. Hundreds turn out for auction. Together with extensive arable farming equipment, a combine harvester and tractors, the...

Officials say it is not clear whether the tractor overturned or if he fell off the machine. Police tell us that the man was apparently run over by the tractor he was riding. Authorities have not released the mans identity or his condition. Man Injured In Beaver County Tractor Accident. A man was seriously injured this afternoon in a tractor accident on his property in Beaver County. The accident happened around 1:20pm along Cain Road in Hanover Township. The victim was flown by medical...

The simple fact propelling growth for this company is when farmers have more cash, they spend more on farming equipment. Investors should instead focus on the infrastructure build-out, major corn producers, fertilizer companies, and farming equipment manufacturers. Our bullish position on the stock rests on the growing confidence in the sustainability and durability of higher agricultural commodity prices driving equipment sales, coupled with Deere's impressive execution. The prospects for...

Besides witnessing an increase in exhibition space by exhibitors from the previous edition, this year's Conmex will be host to several new international companies dealing in construction related machinery, equipment, and vehicles. Leading international construction machinery and equipment brands sign up for second edition of Conmex . Conmex Monday, May 28 - 2007 Home . E-mail . MediaCentre . User Login AME Info - the ultimate Middle East business resource. The event displays the entire...

Those names of farm machines that once covered the countryside of rural America again stood in a rural field off Route 219, just south of Luthersburg. His 1921 Fordson is one of six Fordsons he owns and was built before tractors had rubber tires, great for traction, but as he said, "a little rough riding on hard ground. If all goes well and the weather cooperates, the oats will be cut and harvested by the time the association holds its next show in mid-August. Saturday afternoon the...

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East Marshall first grader Ellen Hungerford sat at her art table Tuesday morning glazing a piece of pottery made possible by something very near to her heart: her brother s memory. Hungerford said art is her favorite subject and that she is proud that her family donated a kiln to the school in memory of her brother Ethan. He said this year students have worked on pottery and masks but next year students will likely be making chimes as well with the school s new capabilities. Tim said...

I've been reading about crop subsidies that came about during the Depression to help financially-strapped farmers. As I wrote in my lead-in to the CCC columns, one of the best features of my job is I can get interested in something of historical bent, put out the word and learn firsthand from folks who were there. Let's find some longtime farmers who can remember how these subsidies affected their family's plot of ground in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Also, I got more than a dozen...