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Today farmers’ shops, storage facilities and offices bulge with a wide range of equipment and technologies to keep them at maximum productivity and profitability. From the work-horse tractor to harvesting equipment and GPS and other technologies that guide them, the tools of production are ever-evolving. With each season, new ideas take shape and find permanent places on U.S. farms.
Recent Items for Farm Equipment
  • Apr. 22, 2013
    Article
    Southeast Farm Press

    New herbicide formulations will require precise application

    There will be some major changes in the application process, specifically as it relates to the label, and the label is the law....More
  • Apr. 4, 2013
    Article

    Aging inland waterways infrastructure to be rehabbed?

    An aging U.S. waterway infrastructure – which carries more than 60 percent of America’s grain and other commodity exports -- may be set to get a funding boost from Congress that will allow for more than a facelift....More
  • Mar. 1, 2013
    Article

    Mid-South Farm and Gin Show begins today

    More than 450 exhibits, featuring the latest in equipment, products, and services await you at the 61st Mid-South Farm and Gin Show, which begins today (Friday, March 1) at the downtown Cook Convention Center in Memphis....More
  • Feb. 28, 2013
    Commentary

    Love your dog? Thank a farmer

    In an agriculture industry increasingly reliant on complex technology, dogs herd sheep; watch over cattle; detect invasive pests and plants hiding in produce for U.S. Customs; track metal theft through forensic marker recognition; and even hot-nose the trail of crop-destroying feral hogs. In addition to workaday value, for many farmers, dogs are simply ever-present, loyal companions — maybe a faithful Lab that is lord of the truck bed....More
  • Feb. 28, 2013
    Article

    Mid-South Farm and Gin Show begins its two-day run tomorrow

    The 61st Mid-South Farm and Gin Show gets under way tomorrow (Friday, March 1) at the downtown Cook Convention Center in Memphis, offering more than 400 exhibits of the latest equipment, products, and services for the 2013 farming season....More
  • Feb. 19, 2013
    Commentary

    As U.S. becomes more fuel-efficient fund for roads/bridges nears empty

    While the cost of gas has ranged all over the map in the two decades since 1993, one thing hasn’t changed: the federal tax on gasoline....More
  • Feb. 7, 2013
    Article

    New tax law increases direct expense deduction for 2012, 2013

    First-year Direct Expensing (Section 179) is an election in IRS code that allows businesses like farms to deduct the cost of capital purchases as a tax deductible expense....More
  • Jan. 30, 2013
    Article

    Cellphone app helps calculate fuel use, costs

    Farmers can use a new Farm Fuel Budget cellphone app to plan their fuel budget and total use for the next year or more.

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  • Jan. 23, 2013
    Article

    Efficient transportation remains critical for farmers 1

    In an environment of highs and lows for prices, market demands and costs, the one thing sought by farmers in terms of transporting their goods to market is certainty....More
  • Jan. 23, 2013
    Article

    Fiscal cliff legislation contained farm equipment windfall

    In terms of tractor and other farm machinery purchases, “there was a huge windfall in the 2013 tax legislation,” says Roger McEowen, director of Iowa State University’s Center for Agricultural Law and Taxation....More
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