Briefs: Deputies confiscate 60,000 pirated discs Oct 1, 2009
Six people were injured Thursday when a van collided with a tractor pulling a harvester on Nees Avenue east of Douglas Avenue just west of Firebaugh. The California Highway Patrol said the van, carrying five people, was traveling west on Nees at high speed when it rear-ended the tractor pulling a harvester about 6:15 a.m.. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Mechanical grape harvester a quicker picker Sep 30, 2009
But during the last 30 years, more acres have gone to machines as the size of the crop has grown and the technology behind mechanical harvesters has improved ... How fast can a mechanical harvester pick ... Bronco co-founder Fred Franzia estimates five people working with mechanical harvesters can do the work of about 100 people picking by hand. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
Consumption of red, green explode, yet imports implode New Mexico's chile crop Sep 19, 2009
Whether the industry can be saved in a large-scale way in New Mexico will depend on technology, specifically automated harvesters that can replace expensive hand picking ... Several prototype harvesters have been tested around the state, including one invented by an Israeli entrepreneur ... Every type of green chile, because of their different shapes, might need its own mechanical harvester. (New Mexico Business Weekly, NM)
WAYNE F. STULL Sep 18, 2009
Wayne was a successful rancher, orchardist and custom wheat harvester before retiring with his wife to Wasilla in 1995. Wayne received numerous awards for his farming skills. (Wasilla Frontiersman, AK)
Deere lays off 367 at Harvester Works Sep 12, 2009
In addition, the company said the remaining Harvester Works employees will start four weeks of inventory adjustment shutdown and two weeks of vacation shutdown on Sept. 21. The Harvester layoffs come three months after Deere idled its John Deere Ottumwa (Iowa) Works plant ... The plant produces balers, mower conditioners, windrowers and pull-type forage harvesters used by hay and livestock producers. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Deere Lays off More Workers as Demand Lags Sep 11, 2009
Since sales of tractors, harvesters and other agricultural equipment rise and fall along with farm income, Deere and competitors CNH Global NV and Agco Corp have been scaling back production. (Reporting by James B. Kelleher; Editing by Toni Reinhold). (ABC News -- Wire)
Deere to cut 367 workers Sep 11, 2009
(AP) said Thursday it plans to lay off 367 production workers at its John Deere Harvester works in East Moline, Ill ... The John Deere Harvester Works makes combines and front-end equipment for harvesting. (Crain's Chicago Business)
Japan's election: Lost in transition Sep 10, 2009
They received a brand-new 6m rice harvester, with the prefecture s name printed on the side. But all of them are old men, some in their 80s, whose toil is made all the harder because their children long ago left for the brighter lights of the city. (The Economist)
Charles City parade brings back history Sep 9, 2009
Featured vehicles this year were old International Harvester products. My first one was an F-20 International in 1937. (Waterloo Courier, IO)
Harvest Scenes in 19th Century Art Sep 7, 2009
Like any force of nature, the harvest and the behavior of harvesters has fascinated artists for centuries, particularly Camille Pissarro, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, all of whom painted multiple interpretations of the season ... Pissarro s 1882 The Harvest has flowing lines that connect the harvesters to the wheat they are bundling ... In the style of his day, Bouguereau s harvesters tend to be rather idealized and interchangeable with figures in his classical... (Suite101.com)
A family of harvesters Sep 6, 2009
Jim Zeorian is in the belly of the beast, fishing fistfuls of wheat kernels from the man-sized grain tank of his Case 2588 harvester ... A traveling wheat harvester, Zeorian drops the kernels into a handheld grain tester, which delivers a diagnosis that Zeorian doesn't like ... She and her parents say they're hooked on the gypsy life of traveling harvesters. (Montana Standard, MT)
August tractor sales tumble 6 percent Sep 5, 2009
August combine harvester sales numbering 13, were 35 percent down on sales in August last year, while on a year-to-date basis combine harvester sales were down 9 percent, with 231 units sold to date, as opposed to 255 in the corresponding period. The three factors mentioned as affecting sales negatively in past months were still prevalent, said SAAMA chair, Leon Pretorius. (Business Report, South Africa)
How many oil speculators do we need? Aug 29, 2009
" Makes sense -- if you don't count Roosevelt's pro-labor programs, he doesn't end up very pro-labor!So now we have a 68-page paper Ohanian has been working on for four years that is sure to become a never-to-be-extinguished talking point for New Deal haters, union-busters, and opponents of all kinds of government intervention in the economy. Here are some key points, taken from the press release pushed out by UCLA. Pro-labor policies pushed by President Herbert Hoover after the stock market... (Salon)
Deere, union open contract talks Aug 27, 2009
Other locations are the John Deere Harvester Works in East Moline, Ill. John Deere Seeding Group/Cylinder Division in Moline; John Deere North American Parts Distribution Center in Milan, Ill. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Intelligent Harvesting Robot To Cut Costs For UK Farms Aug 20, 2009
The final technology will be developed for a first generation harvester and tested in a real farming environment. A successful demonstration of the imaging technology was given recently at the Fanuc Robotics site in Coventry, showing its huge potential for the harvesting of cauliflowers, lettuces and other similar crops. (Science Daily)
Money doesn't make the world go round Aug 12, 2009
The very way we speak about structured financial products, collateralised debt obligations, and credit default swaps, make these bundles of contractual promises sound as real and tangible as a truck or a combine harvester. In all these official diagnoses and prescriptions I have not once encountered the perspective that finance is merely a vital input into our economy and society, much like electricity, gas or infrastructure. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Blounts Creek man keeps tobacco traditions alive Aug 6, 2009
Foreman has advanced with the times in that he uses a tractor, a circa 1950s International Harvester Super A.. The tobacco trucks are moved to an area where other workers stand at the ready. (Washington Daily News, NC)
Local engineer Paul Burkner honored for innovation, ingenuity (4) Aug 1, 2009
5 tons of grapes from a machine harvester to delivery trucks parked next to the vineyards ... The Soft Touch system allows twin rails to gently shake grapes into the harvester with a continuous, fluid motion. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Smith, Hutton will play for an exemption at JDC Aug 1, 2009
Smith and Geneva Country Club professional Steve Hutton will represent Muscatine at the Iowa Section PGA Professional Championship on Monday and Tuesday at The Harvester Golf Club in Rhodes, Iowa just northeast of Des Moines. The 54-hole champion earns an automatic exemption into next year s John Deere Classic at TPC Deere Run, while the top-five finishers in the 69-player field qualify for the PGA Professionals National Championship next June in French Lick, Ind. (Muscatine Journal, IO)
Navistar mulls HQ move Jul 30, 2009
Navistar, once known as International Harvester Co., moved its headquarters to Warrenville in 2001 from downtown Chicago. What do you think. (Crain's Chicago Business)
Thursday's Sentinel police log Jul 24, 2009
A 2000 International Harvester 9400I tractor-trailer driven by Carson D. Finsterbush, 47, of Mifflinburg rear-ended a merging 1992 Dodge Ram van driven by Romain Lubin, 54, of Fort Pierce, Fla. Debris from the impact caused front-end damage to a 2005 Kia Spectra driven by James R. Whitehead Sr., 36, of West Columbia, S.C.. (Carlisle Sentinel, PA)
World's first double arm transplant man extols the joys of scratching Jul 23, 2009
Karl Merk had the 15-hour operation a year ago in Munich after losing his arms just below the shoulder in a 2002 combine harvester accident. The 55-year-old's new limbs came from an anonymous donor who had died. (BBC News -- Health)
Another sweet corn summer Jul 18, 2009
With morning light hitting his face, Luciano Movillo, a migrant worker from Mexico, tosses ears of Olathe Sweet Sweet Corn towards packers on a mechanical harvester in a field west of Olathe Thursday morning. (William Woody / Daily Press) Advertisement. (Montrose Daily Press, CO)
Kidnocker: With the monsoon comes ants Jul 16, 2009
Harvester ants are among the most common ... Nests of harvester ants are flat with a noticeable entry in the center ... When disturbed, harvesters can cause a painful sting. (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)
Train destroys almond harvester in Tipton Jul 16, 2009
Place an obit: (559) 441-6228. Web Search powered by YAHOO. (Fresno Bee)
Fruit of the harvest: 'Surge in interest in rainwater collection' Jul 13, 2009
Heitz started his system in Arizona after he attended a 25-hour course called the Rainwater Harvester Certificate Demonstration Program, which is run by Water Wise. I really enjoyed it, I learned a lot because this isn t Guam. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Peach crop's path to palate is quick Jul 11, 2009
Georgia growers prefer the Harvester. It takes 10 to 15 years to develop a new variety. (The Augusta Chronicle)
To Beat the Recession, Open Your Books Jul 8, 2009
He spun out SRC, then a struggling engine division of farm-equipment maker International Harvester in Springfield, Mo. into a separate company owned by employees. (BusinessWeek)
210 years to grow Jul 5, 2009
The harvester alone costs $600,000. Even a chainsaw will set you back a few grand. (The Age, Australia -- Features)
Keeping weeds at bay in Saratoga Lake Jun 29, 2009
Bob Hahn and Fred Furnia use a harvester to clear weeds from Saratoga Lake ... Fred Furnia, foreground, pilots the harvester ... Roger Bellanger pilots a plant harvester, clearing weeds from Saratoga Lake on Wednesday. (Albany Times Union)
Wray column: Learning a business from the ground down (June 26) Jun 26, 2009
The Dorts are expanding their worm beds, extending their covered area and preparing to buy a new worm harvester. Visit www. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Transformers 2 Jun 25, 2009
There's something about the Decepticons (the big baddie robots) finding a fragment of the Allspark (that big block thing from last time), reviving their leader Megatron (the main badass), uncovering the Matrix Of Leadership (a metal artefact that looks like a ninja weapon) and powering up the Sun Harvester (a giant device that sucks the energy out of suns) so that The Fallen (an ever badder ass) can destroy the earth. But not if the Autobots (the goodie machines who just happen to change into... (iAfrica.com)
Corn exhibit looks at past, present farming practices (57) Jun 19, 2009
The new corn exhibit at the Old Courthouse Museum includes a very, very early corn sheller, a giant foam ear of corn, old hand corn husking equipment, a corn knife and corn knife boot, and a 1977 International Harvester combine cab that includes a video of corn harvesting ... Another runs inside a 1977 International Harvester combine cab. (Sioux Falls Tri-State Neighbor, SD)
I have been noticing more often now that they have been burning fields without having a fire department truck on stand by.'>Reader wants to know about field burning. Jun 6, 2009
"Assuming you do have this understanding, charlie, I have a couple of questions.1) when you say "stubble" what are we talking about? Doesn't the combine leave behind both the "stubble," which I take to mean the stalks of the plant below the point the harvester cuts, and the straw, which I take to mean what's left over after the harvester shakes out the seed. Is the straw harvested also, leaving just the stubble to be burned, or is the straw part of the burn pile also?2) Doesn't tilling in the... (El Centro Imperial Valley Press, CA)
Abraham Makano Jun 5, 2009
6 miles per hour, a rotor speed of 850 rpm, using the concave setting or pea setting on a New Holland harvester. He also suggested producers use alfalfa or flax settings for sieves. (Great Falls Prairie Star, MT)
Restoration takes 1948 tractor from manure hauling to modeling May 28, 2009
Yet Shuman s sentimental attachment to the tractor combined with time, money and patience combined to give the 60-year-old 1948 McCormick International Harvester Model H tractor a second career, retiring from day-to-day general farming purposes to modeling ... Richie Shuman, right, stands with his father Thomas Pete R. Shuman beside their recently restored 1948 McCormick International Harvester Model H tractor outside the familys Shuman Foods retail business in Reevesville. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Her island entree: seaweed May 24, 2009
"Poor seaweeds have gotten a bad rap," said Bernard, 56, a third-generation seaweed harvester. "I just want to dispel the myths that they're ooey, gooey, sloppy, and slimy, and no good for anything but fertilizer.". (Boston Globe)
Madagascar: Just Add Water, Better Seeds And New Knowledge May 23, 2009
She is one of some 50 participants digging the huge catchment basin of the rainwater harvester her community has chosen to build. "We used to have to walk very far to get water, but I'll be happier if there is actually enough rain to fill the rain catcher." If her wish is granted, it will supply water to farmers in the area. (allAfrica.com)
'Terminator' returns May 21, 2009
The point, however, is to create over-the-top explosions, fireballs, fights, falls, chases, crashes, and Terminators, ranging from the 80-foot-tall spidery Harvester to Moto-Terminators (based on Ducati motorbikes) and underwater weapons called Hydrobots. When it comes to the screenplay, by John Brancato and Michael Ferris ("Terminator 3"), man is subservient to machines and sorely lacking is a sense of humor, a signature of the first two films. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Listening to biscuits? A strange history of measurement science May 21, 2009
NPL is currently working on developing the science that will lead to an intelligent harvesting machine - a robot harvester that knows when vegetables are ripe for the picking. Annual wastage of some crops can be up to 60%, with an average farm's loss coming in at around 100,000. (BBC News -- Science)
Nuts about Terminators May 19, 2009
THE HUNTER: The Harvester is a 50ft tall giant machine that is programmed to go out and grab people ... Then when it finds them, it sends a signal back to Skynet, which then sends out a Harvester a 50ft tall giant machine that is trained to go out and grab people ... The Harvester in turn has little robots, basically Terminators that shoot out from his hip. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Technology)
Case Corp Acquisitions May 18, 2009
International Harvester ... Product: Sugar Cane Harvesters ... Product: Conventional Combines, Self-Propelled Forage Harvesters, Large Square Balers and Windrowers. (Racine Journal Times, WI)
Terminator Salvation iPhone Review May 9, 2009
All of these machines look great in the game -- even the Harvester, which figures heavily into the plot of the movie, which is mercifully not spoiled in Gameloft's game, but at the expense of a coherent story. The environments are exceptionally well done as well. (IGN Wireless Games)
Where every day is Earth Day Apr 28, 2009
One of those memories is sitting next to my grandfather Sam on the T-20 International Harvester tractor, pulling a 6-foot disk and taking in the rich aroma of the freshly tilled, moist soil being turned over by the disk blades. The sound of the metal tracks against the earth, the warm exhaust blowing back toward the driver, the faint squeaking sound from the disk blades as they slowly turned the soil all filled your senses and made you feel like a partner with Mother Nature. (Santa Maria Times)
MoDOT announces 2009 St. Louis projects Apr 15, 2009
Route 364 east and west of Harvester Road. Upgrade Route 94 to a limited access roadway with an overpass for Harvester Road and one-way outer roads. (St. Louis Business Journal, MO)
Nigeria: Zimbabwe Farmers Making Progress [interview] Apr 10, 2009
The crop farmers have imported some combine harvesters, have planted a bigger hectarage of crops and have had better yields this year ... I want to invent (with the help of my engineering colleagues) a cassava forage harvester ... I have bought a regular forage harvester and now need to adapt it to cope with the huge vegetative mass that stems from cassava tubers. (allAfrica.com)
Cottontails in Morris Have State Grooming the Landscape Apr 10, 2009
The team hired someone with a whole tree harvester and had all the trees cut and stacked in piles on the property. The habitat will begin as stumps and evolve into a thick dense young habitat for the rabbits. (Litchfield County Times, CT)
Galt-area man says his worms make the 'world's best fertilizer' (650) Apr 7, 2009
He gets his fertilizer into prime condition by putting the worms into a harvester, which separates the animals, the castings and the food. When Dunn was in the culinary business, he worked at places like construction camps for Pacific Gas ric Co., restaurants in the Bay Area, Shasta Lake and Washington state, and at The Summit restaurant at Harrah's casino in Lake Tahoe. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
National religion briefs for the week of April 3 Apr 3, 2009
Archbishop Earl Paulk of the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit at Chapel Hill Harvester Church died Sunday, March 29, after a battle with cancer. He was 81. (North County Times)
Cash wins voters, but higher labour costs won't work Mar 24, 2009
Addressing a Melbourne University seminar in November 2007 on the centenary of the landmark Harvester judgment, Gillard identified with the "spirit" of that decision, made by Justice Henry Bournes Higgins. He was well motivated, but his introduction of what was termed a centralised "fair and reasonable" wage, unrelated to the market, was inappropriate for a nation which traded goods and services on international markets. (The Age, Australia -- Opinion)
Seeing red writeLink("vid_id=1488&file=ihconvention.flv"); Mar 7, 2009
AJ Flater of Holland, left, and Bill Moss of Floyd, right, discuss the different tractors on display at the International Harvester Winter Convention at the Five Sullivan Center downtown Waterloo, Iowa, Thursday, Mar ... The International Harvester Collectors 17th annual National Winter Convention started Thursday, and I-H diehards are revved up about being in Waterloo --- the home of John Deere tractors ... Organizers believe the event will show International Harvester had as much of an impact... (Waterloo Courier, IO)
Waterloo rolling out red carpet for IH collectors (11) Mar 4, 2009
The International Harvester Collectors will hold their 17th annual National Winter Convention at the Five Sullivan Brothers Convention Center Thursday through Saturday. Between 15 to 40 antique I-H tractors and related brands will be on display, including the 5 millionth tractor produced. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Feds say man faked IDs for body parts Mar 4, 2009
A tissue harvester faces charges that he lied about donors' ages and medical histories. Sarah Avery - Staff Writer. (News & Observer)
Volunteers needed for Forest County RAC Mar 3, 2009
(a) Organized labor or non-timber forest product harvester groups. (b) Developed outdoor recreation, off highway vehicle users or commercial recreation activities. (Forest Republican, WI)
MauiGrown Coffee yields results Feb 24, 2009
The Korvan harvester, driven by Ramiro Alvarez, is used to shake or vibrate the trees, which causes the coffee cherries to fall where the machine catches them. Photo by Kathleen Giambalvo. (Honolulu Advertiser)
The life and death of Maria Laticia Fonseca-Quintero (2) Feb 24, 2009
On an August night, a young woman from Mexico fell under a grape harvester near Lodi and was crushed to death ... That late August night was her first sorting chardonnay grapes on a harvester ... At about 10 p.m., while culling debris from the bunches of grapes streaming down the conveyor belt at the rear of the roughly 14,000-pound harvester, Quintero somehow fell to the ground. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Severe drought adds to crisis in California Feb 23, 2009
"Farmers are very resilient, we make things happen, but we've never had a zero allocation," said Stephen Patricio, president of Westside Produce, a melon handler and harvester. "And I might not be very good at math, but zero means zero.". (International Herald Tribune)
Family traditions are part of new Harney Lane Winery Feb 19, 2009
My son (Ian) has been riding on a grape harvester since he was old enough to walk. He's out here every day. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
MicroGen Systems Wins NYSERDA Contract; to Partner With the Infotonics Technology Center (ITC) in Developing Micro-Energy Harvesting Technology Feb 14, 2009
CANANDAIGUA, N.Y., Feb. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- MicroGen Systems, LLC has been awarded a $300,000 contract for its "Piezoelectric Vibrational Energy Harvester" project by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) ... "ITC is working with MicroGen to quickly turn their concept into a working prototype, which will help them raise capital needed to bring this technology to market. The MEMS-based energy harvester has myriad application possibilities, and MicroGen, partnered... (PR Newswire)
