Other activities include equipment demonstrations, blacksmithing and train rides. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are provided. Tuckahoe Steam and Gas Show Tuckahoe Showgrounds Head to the farm and see restored antique agriculture equipment -- including antique horse pulls, tractors and steam engines -- on display and in action at the Tuckahoe Steam and Gas Show.

October 16, 2006 Road To The IGF: St Diffusions' SimTractor Continuing Gamasutras Road to the IGF feature, which profiles and interviews Independent Games Festival 2007 entrants, todays interview is with Benoit Brabant of St Diffusions, developer of SimTractor. October 16, 2006 Road To The IGF: St Diffusions' SimTractor Continuing Gamasutras Road to the IGF feature, which profiles and interviews Independent Games Festival 2007 entrants, todays interview is with Benoit Brabant of St...

Nationally, the number of farm operators under age 35 dropped from 16 percent of all farmers to 6 percent in the last two decades, according to the U. Students also are being taught ecology and rural development in a new major that includes farming, said Creamer, head of the university's environmental farming program. The number of farms has nearly been cut in half since the mid 1970s, and almost all of the state's counties have lost farms in the last 10 years in a trend farmers are coping...

Jeffrey Lin submits: Caterpillar (CAT), along with other machinery stocks, was down on a strong tape yesterday after the Commerce Department reported a larger-than-expected drop in durable goods orders. Hitachi Construction Machinery co., the world s biggest maker of large excavators, said earnings are rising faster than forecast as construction, and mining booms in China, Russia and India drive demand. The same argument weighted on Caterpillar s stock until they blew away last quarter s...

Between rainfall changes and slowly rising temperatures, according to the study concluded last year by the Center for Environmental and Economic Policy of Africa at South Africa's University of Pretoria, Zambian farmers are very vulnerable to climate changes. Between rainfall changes and slowly rising temperatures, according to the study concluded last year by the Center for Environmental and Economic Policy of Africa at South Africa's University of Pretoria, Zambian farmers are very...

For the past three to four years, the Danish agricultural engineering scientists have been working on a solution to control weeds for vegetable farming. Even attaching the unit to a small tractor will weigh less than the machinery currently used for weed-elimination. Environmentally, if we can do something like this mechanically versus herbicides, it s and advantage to all of us, Bill said. Depending on the needs of the farmer and the kind of vegetable crop, Hortibot has a variety of...

Mr Berry, a noted district identity known for his extensive collection of Caterpillar tractors, has taken a minimalist approach to his dryland farming operations for all of his working life. Pivotal to his philosophy is a low input approach that keeps costs to a minimum be it machinery, or annual fertilizer and spray regimes. As part of the bid to maintain production levels, the Berry family took a gamble on planting his preferred Pacific Seeds variety DK 689 (no longer available) corn...

A construction worker walks by a Komatsu excavator (Corrects Caterpillar sales figure to ''about'' $1 billion in second paragraph of story originally published July 4. Widening its lead over Caterpillar in China, forecast to produce half the world's earthmoving machines in the next three years, may propel Komatsu shares. The company signed its first large contract with the Chinese government in 1964, more than a decade before Caterpillar's entrance in the market in 1975. Caterpillar moved...

He started the tractor not realizing it was in reverse, which caused it to lunge forcefully. A west Kentucky man is dead after he was run over by a tractor. Conyers died on the way to the hospital of blunt force trauma to the chest. You can send a story to multiple email addresses by separating the email addresses with a semicolon (;) This station will not store your email address or your recipient's email address or use them in any way. A valid email address is required. A valid email...