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The Scoop | What's your sustainability index?

From Senior Editor Jodie Wehrspann

LAST SUMMER, when mega-retailer Walmart announced plans to develop a worldwide sustainable product index, American businesses got the clear message that...

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Farmland's tipping point

By David Hest

A YEAR after the worldwide economic meltdown, farmland values across the Corn Belt have largely escaped the dramatic declines affecting housing and commercial...


Buildings

Can you hear me now?

Oct 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By David Hest

IF YOU'RE tired of dropped calls, dead zones and poor data transfer speeds from your cell phone carrier, you may want to add a cell phone booster to your...

Where to buy signal-boosting systems

Oct 1, 2009 12:00 PM, David Hest

Your best bet when shopping for a signal-boosting system may be the Internet. It's unusual for cell phone stores to carry this equipment, and choices...

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Business

Buying time

Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, From Editor Karen McMahon

THE FARM equipment buying season is about to begin, and machinery companies hope for a good year. They just might get it. A John Deere executive recently...

The scoop

Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, Karen McMahon

FARMERS IN rural Midwestern states should feel good about the positive news in a research report from the University of Illinois. The researchers found...

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Electronics

Touch-screen dryer control

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM

SUKUP MANUFACTURING now offers a new touch-screen dryer control display called the QuadraTouch. It comes standard on continuous-flow Sukup dryers. The...

Wall-to-wall Corn Belt RTK

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By David Hest

PRECISION RTK correction networks will largely blanket the heart of the Corn Belt by the 2010 planting season. This dramatic increase in RTK coverage...

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Farm Recordkeeping

Mastering precision ag

Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Mark Moore

TODAY'S PRECISION agriculture equipment provides a wealth of data that can help drive a multitude of farm management decisions. Yet with the increased...

The 20 Top Products of 2009

Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Karen McMahon and Jodie Wehrspann

88 series combines by Case IH CASE REDESIGNED its 88 series Axial-Flow combines from the ground up. The new series replaces the Class V 2577 and Class...

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Farm Tires

New from Agritechnica

Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Karen McMahon

Hydrogen tractor FOR THE first time, New Holland exhibited its futuristic tractor that is powered by hydrogen. The company first revealed a prototype...

Tire Trends

Mar 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Jodie Wehrspann

The Demand for large-volume farm tires the kind found on today's large row-crop and 4-wd tractors has never been higher. Tire makers like Firestone, Titan-Goodyear,...

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Internet

Ag's Internet Caf

Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By David Hest

IN THE hyper world of social media, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube get much of the glory. But for a growing number of farmers, an online forum called AgTalk...

Tweeting for agriculture

Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By David Hest

TWITTER, FACEBOOK and other social media have built their reputations by helping people keep in touch with family and friends. But a growing cadre of...

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Tools

Miller Wildcat 200

Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Kent Lock

HAVING MILLER Electric Manufacturing Company's Wildcat 200 on our grain and livestock farm for six months gave me the same feeling that I had upon using...

Liquid tool kit

Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM

LIQUID WRENCH has added two new liquid tools and packaged six of its liquid lubricants and penetrates together to provide a complete kit for repairs....

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Welding

Miller Wildcat 200

Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Kent Lock

HAVING MILLER Electric Manufacturing Company's Wildcat 200 on our grain and livestock farm for six months gave me the same feeling that I had upon using...

Farmindustrynews.com

Sep 1, 2009 12:00 PM

FIN TV New inventions ease farm tasks Farm Industry News traveled to the Minnesota Inventors Congress this summer to find the latest ideas and inventions...

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