Setting up wireless Internet access for your home or home office may sound daunting, but with careful attention to detail and a little patience, it can be done in an afternoon....More
Congress has provided additional incentives for farmers and other small businessmen to purchase tractors and other equipment in 2011 and 2012. While the rules change at the stroke of midnight a week from Saturday (Dec. 31), farmers can still use the new tax provisions to offset income. Iowa State University’s Mark Hanna says the Nebraska Tractor Tests can assist growers in making buying decisions....More
While Warren Buffett pulls Wall Street levers and guides a multi-billion dollar company, his son Howard would rather spend his time — on a tractor....More
Farm equipment manufacturers have been investing heavily in new technology aimed at helping them meet EPA emission standards. One the approaches uses a compound call diesel exhaust fluid or DEF to reduce those. Case IH’s Ron Blessing talked about what his company is doing to meet those in an interview at the World Ag Expo in Tulare, Calif....More
With precision agriculture now firmly entrenched on the farm, it is inevitable that anything interfering with the necessary GPS signals won’t be accepted with a smile. At the same time, growers know that rural America would massively benefit from reliable broadband coverage....More
TractorLife.com, a website that helps farmers maintain and extend the operating lives of their tractors, will host a free 60-minute webinar to address new depreciation rules and how they will affect farmers’ operations....More
When John Deere held its largest ever product launch in Indianapolis, among the new introductions was the S-Series Combines. Although many of the combines will be headed for corn and soybean country, Deere has included several features aimed at helping rice producers harvest most of their crop. John Deere’s Katie Dierker talked about those during an interview shot at the close of a press briefing on the new combines....More
Five agricultural aviation companies that serve the agricultural industry in Louisiana got their equipment tested recently with the help of the LSU AgCenter and the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry (LDAF)....More
New book by Iowa State University professor can prove helpful to farmers seeking ways to use farm equipment depreciation to offset tax expenses....More
The 2011 harvest will soon be under way, and with National Farm Safety and Health Week occurring Sept. 18–24, now is a good time to remind children how dangerous grain can be during harvest and throughout the year as it is transported and stored on the farm....More
Long in the works, the U.S. Department of Labor is set to release proposed updates to child labor regulations aimed at safety concerns in agriculture-related jobs....More
These are heady days for folks in the farm equipment industry. Nowhere is that more true than at AGCO Corp., which has grown itself into an $8 billion company in recent years....More
In recent years, the South has been no stranger to cotton gin closings and consolidation. That has led to a number of issues and questions for the cotton industry....More
While the Federal Communications Commission weighs the pros and cons of allowing an AT&T merger with T-Mobile, Arkansas legislators and agriculture officials are openly advocating for the transaction. If the $39 billion deal is allowed, proponents say AT&T would use T-Mobile’s network to bring high-speed internet access to rural America in a big way.
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John Deere has just completed one of its largest product launches ever with the last event in a series of four "waves" attended by 1,600 dealers from the United States and Canada....More
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has announced that it has no intention to propose new regulations governing the transport of agricultural products....More
On Aug.2, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) received a letter signed by 22 senators regarding several controversial moves by the administration....More
Two new tax bills, passed in 2010, gave farmers healthy incentives for buying machinery and equipment. Both bills will expire at the end of this year, and industry experts now question whether Congress will extend the tax write-off incentives....More
