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ANN BAILEY: Spring is alive
Grand Forks Herald
Another sight that is common now that it's the growing season, are tractors and the farm equipment they are pulling. During the winter, we seldom see any traffic on the road that passes by our house, save for a car or pickup or two.

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Cass Co Michigan deputies respond to 2 serious accidents
Fox 28
By Amanda Tetlak, Weekend Anchor/MJ - email The Cass County, Michigan sheriff's department says a tractor rolled over on top of the operator in LaGrange Township on Friday. Deputies say Fredrick Kirsch, 71yrs of Dowagiac, Michigan was tilling his farm ...

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Farmers pay others to do the work
Fox11online.com
But Wendt's only farm machine, besides his riding lawn mower, is a handy Kubota tractor with a loader in front and a weed-wacker on the back. He doesn't need anything more because he pays Klondike Farms of Brooklyn to plant and harvest his crops.

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Down on the Farm: Modern hermits
Morris Sun Tribune
Seventy years ago, Henry, who didn't get his first tractor until the late 1940s, plowed the field with horses. After Henry died, the land was farmed for thirty years by huge tractors which could barely turn around in that little field without tripping ...

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Mexican wind energy boom plays out on gusty shores
The Republic
LA VENTOSA, Mexico (Reuters) - On an arid plain where sudden gusts of wind can rip roofs off buildings and knock over tractor trailers, Mexico is building a new engine for its energy future. Surrounded by towering turbines in every direction, ...

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Changing Boomers May Lift Tractor Supply
Investor's Business Daily
By PAUL WHITFIELD Posted 06:07 PM ET Retail farm and ranch chain Tractor Supply (TSCO) grew earnings 49%, 38% and 34% in the past three years. The Street appears to think the short-term answer is "sort of." The consensus estimate sees 23% EPS growth ...

The Saginaw News - MLive.com
Ag heritage: Frankenmuth high schoolers share sugar beet farming with younger ...
The Saginaw News - MLive.com
"There is easily more than $1 million of equipment in the parking lot," said David Krafft, an 18-year-old senior whose family runs Krafft Farms in Frankenmuth Township. Groups of students stared in awe at the large equipment and learned that for one ...

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Tractor drive honors longtime farmer, community member, Bill B. Smith
Benton Evening News
“This was his lead tractor. Prior to that, he had farmed with the (Farmall) 100,” Roger Smith said. “I purchased this tractor in April of 1948. It has worked on the same farm that I have owned since 1947. I was in service in World War II from 1943 to ...

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Can We Open-Source Hardware?
WWNO
So I started a farm in Missouri and learned about the economics of farming. I bought a tractor. Then it broke. I paid to get it repaired, then it broke again. And pretty soon, I was broke too. I realized that the truly appropriate low-cost tools that I ...

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Hog farm produces electricity, methane
Columbus Telegram
They use the methane to fuel a pickup and tractor. Danny Kluthe's not too worried about the high price of diesel fuel. But his pickup's not running on diesel. It's running on biomethane generated from his 8000-head hog operation.

House Agriculture Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management ...
Insurance News Net (press release)
I got off my tractor yesterday to attend this important hearing. We are still seeding in Eastern Washington where I am a third generation small grains farmer growing pulse crops, wheat and barley. I am also the current Chairman of the USA Dry Pea and ...

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Minnesota Public Radio
Government support could shift for farmers
Minnesota Public Radio
LEO, Minn. — When Darwyn Bach climbs aboard his tractor to plant rows of corn, he can't help but think of the bottom line. Bach has grown crops and livestock in western Minnesota, where farms blanket the landscape, since 1987.

Pandora man injured in farm accident helped first responders with his rescue
LimaOhio.com
PANDORA — A Putnam County farmer injured when his tractor rolled over on him used his cell phone to tell rescue workers what they needed to rescue him. Daryl Bridenbaugh, 62, of Pandora, was listed in fair and stable condition Thursday afternoon, ...
Man, 62, pinned under tractor tireToledo Blade

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Belfast Telegraph
Livestock rustling soars as Northern Ireland farm thefts hit £3.8m
Belfast Telegraph
“While the cost of tractor and quad bike theft fell slightly last year, livestock rustling in Northern Ireland rocketed, increasing by 184% and costing our farmers an estimated £1.4m,” he said. “As Northern Ireland's leading rural insurer and part of ...

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Farmland values surging as crop-price gains spur income
Daily Republic
A farmer in Dover, Ill., with a tractor and planter. Farmland values surged during the first quarter from Kansas to Indiana as gains in crop prices during the past two years bolster income, according to a survey of lenders by regional Federal Reserve ...

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Click & Clack Talk Cars: What's making old tractor stall?
Monterey County Herald
Dear Tom and Ray: Do you ever address questions about old farm tractors? Our 1945 Farmall-A starts well and runs well for about 10-20 minutes, but then it starts to miss and then stalls out, typically while going up a slope — even a small one.

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James Abdnor, Former South Dakota Senator, Dies at 89
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
By ROBERT D. McFADDEN / The New York Times James Abdnor, a South Dakota Republican farmer who liked to say that he got off his tractor and went to Washington, where he served four terms in Congress and one in the Senate after defeating the Democratic ...
Family: Ex-US Sen. Jim Abdnor, South Dakota Republican who ousted George ...Washington Post

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Hindu Business Line
Escorts to build on the strength of large tractors
Hindu Business Line
Bijoy Ghosh Escorts Ltd hopes to use the muscle power and versatility of its large tractors to make it more attractive to farmers and expand its market. It will soon be coming out with a total application solution including a wider range of ...
Escorts ploughs deep in premium tractor segmentNewstrack India
Escorts lines up low HP tractor for Aug launchmydigitalfc.com
Large-tractor market doubled in 9 yrs: SridharIndian Express

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The Guardian (blog)
Stuck for an outing? Try the National Tractor Weekend
The Guardian (blog)
The healthy children of upper Nidderdale clearly prefer model farm machines, combine harvesters, seed drillers and of course tractors by the yard. And now we have National Tractor Weekend, which prompts this post, following an email from Newby Hall ...

Escorts ploughs deep in premium tractor segment
Newstrack India
Elaborating on the reasons for growth of high-powered tractors, Sridhar said there was "informal consolidation" of land holdings among blood relatives at the farm level in states like Punjab, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu. "One person in a family looks ...
Large-tractor market doubled in 9 yrs: SridharIndian Express

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