Farm tillage equipment demonstration Oct 14, 2009
A number of implement dealers brought tillage equipment that made passes through the harvested field on the Dennis Pettit farm near Burnside on Sept. 29. Above, Josh Polhemus, a Western Illinois University agronomy student from Farmington, talks with Jerad Geisler, a sales representative from Birkey's in Macomb. (Carthage (Hancock County) Journal Pilot, IL)
Wheat harvest almost finished in lower Red River Valley Sep 20, 2009
I saw a handful of tractors with tillage equipment working the remaining small grain fields. I attended a marketing session at Big Iron in West Fargo. (Minnesota Farm Guide, MN)
Farm Equipment on Public Roads: Call For National Guidelines Issued (2) Aug 16, 2009
- Rural road bridge damage and failure from larger and heavier grain trucks and wagons, manure spreaders, and tractors and tillage equipment. - Ag equipment carrying hazardous materials like anhydrous ammonia, pesticides and animal waste in quantities that can pose significant environmental and personal injury risks. (Agri-View, WI)
Farmers, check your fields ” Do you need a grassed waterway? Jul 9, 2009
To maintain the design and operation of the grassed waterway for the long-term, it is important to avoid damaging the waterway with tillage equipment, herbicides, burning, grazing, or using the waterway as a roadway. Sharon Kuhns is county director for University of Illinois Extension in Coles County. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Deere & Company Prepared to Expand Operations, Employment in Russia Jul 6, 2009
The company has a manufacturing operation in Orenburg that provides seeding and tillage equipment to the Russian market and exports to other locations. In addition, John Deere is developing an operations, training, and parts center near Kaluga. (Canada Newswire)
Soybean cyst nematode continues to spread in South Dakota May 21, 2009
The nematode is spread with soil movement, and can be transported on tires, shoes, tillage equipment, and planters, Osborne said. The nematode has likely spread to even more areas, but because not all soybean growers test their soil, the pest can go undetected, silently robbing as much as 10 to 30 percent of soybean yields. (Great Falls Prairie Star, MT)
Case Corp Acquisitions May 18, 2009
Product: Low Horsepower Tractors and Tillage Equipment. 1977. (Racine Journal Times, WI)
Seed delivery, fieldwork and planting roar ahead at Thalmann Seeds (3) May 17, 2009
We're just doing some routine maintenance on the planter and tillage equipment today, he said, since rain kept them out of the fields. The Thalmann crew adjusted gauge wheels on the planter, changed cultivator shovels, added safety chains to equipment and put a light on the back of the planter. (Minnesota Farm Guide, MN)
Franseens Find Dairy Goats Work Well With Beef (2) May 3, 2009
I still have tillage equipment. Where I spread manure, I work that in, this conservation-minded grower notes. (Agri-View, WI)
Soybean cyst nematodes concern continues to spread Apr 28, 2009
Farmers who purchase tillage equipment in areas where SCN is already a widespread problem need to pay particular attention to thoroughly cleaning that equipment before bringing it home. "If a farmer brings in a piece of equipment that he purchased from a location such as central Iowa, they may have a different strain of SCN in that soil and that would be introduced into this area if proper cleaning methods aren't used," Nelson said. (Great Falls Prairie Star, MT)
No-till gardening feeds the soil Mar 20, 2009
"At least 30 percent of their machinery inventory had been tied up in tillage equipment," Jones said. "They sold it off because no-till requires only planters and harvesters to bring in a crop.". (The Augusta Chronicle)
