All one needs to do is examine Caterpillar's (NYSE: CAT) results released Friday to understand fully that housing's influenza is resulting in chills and fever in other areas. The culprits in the company's earnings dip -- in addition to the weak housing market, which reduced construction equipment sales -- included higher-than-expected operating costs and a planned reduction in inventories. We'll have to await other indications of a spread of housing's contagion to the equipment...

On the farm, I would go with him to the hatchery, to the poultry houses, the barn, the workshop, the peach orchard and the watermelon patch when he was working. He often took me with him around and off the farm, especially in my preschool years. He had wanted to be a civil engineer but had to give up that dream to help run the farm after his father died. This attitude was the basis of the guidance and support he gave me from early childhood and through the long time it took me to complete...

Green pastures arise from brownfields Michael-Allan Marion / Osprey News Network Local News - Monday, July 30, 2007 @ 07:00 Brantford is spending millions of dollars in concert with the federal and provincial governments and the private sector to clean up and redevelop a collection of heavily contaminated industrial brownfield sites. Green pastures arise from brownfields Michael-Allan Marion / Osprey News Network Local News - Monday, July 30, 2007 @ 07:00 Brantford is spending millions of...

Joe Gleisner, public works service and operations manager, said one of the things the city is waiting on is to take delivery in the next week or two of a 2006 John Deere track excavator to demolish the structures more quickly. The new excavator will be able to tackle three-story building demolitions, such as old city hall on Hazel Street if wanted. We ll use our staff on the demolition equipment to perform the actual demolition itself, Gleisner said. He said for the past three years, the...

Alice Vervais, owner of Shimandle Farm, 6095 Route 307, was preparing an industrial insecticide sprayer to treat the farm's crop of grapes when the power take-off grabbed the sleeve of her T-shirt and severed her arm at the shoulder, neighbor and tenant Alice Cole said. The Star Beacon; Ashtabula, Ohio - Harpersfield woman loses arm in farm accident. Alice Vervais, owner of Shimandle Farm, 6095 Route 307, was preparing an industrial insecticide sprayer to treat the farm's crop of grapes...

Ingersoll signed a definitive agreement to sell Bobcat, the world's top compact construction equipment firm, and its utility equipment and attachment units, which in 2006 together generated $2. For Ingersoll, the deal will cut the diversified manufacturer's exposure to the highly cyclical division which has been hit by a downturn in U. Doosan said a majority of the financing for the acquisition would be in the form of non-recourse debt and the company itself would spend only $700 million...

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Gary Woods, chief appraiser for the Nacogdoches County Central Appraisal District, was out of town Monday, and commissioners are waiting for figures from the appraisal district regarding the amount of tax revenue the county could anticipate during the coming fiscal year before finalizing the budget. Gary Woods, chief appraiser for the Nacogdoches County Central Appraisal District, was out of town Monday, and commissioners are waiting for figures from the appraisal district regarding the...

Water-spilling rivers were dammed and levied; timber-wasting forest fires were suppressed; cattle-eating predators were eliminated; and pesticides, herbicides, and antibiotics were liberally applied to deal with those pesky insects, weeds, and microbes that seemed so intent on wasting what we wanted to use efficiently. Water-spilling rivers were dammed and levied; timber-wasting forest fires were suppressed; cattle-eating predators were eliminated; and pesticides, herbicides, and...