Kyle Busch won the battle of attrition Saturday night as NASCAR's least popular driver overcame a pit-road penalty and several scrapes with the wall to win at Darlington Raceway.
Pequea Begins Production of Harvest Red Equipment Pequea announced recently that all of its rakes, rotary tedders, bale transports and feeders will be painted Pequea's new signature color, Harvest Red. Dealers can continue to request alternate colors through a custom
A system that turns irrigation water on and off automatically based on leaf temperature is being developed by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) soil scientist Steven Evett and colleagues in Texas. Evett, a soil scientist at Bushland, Texas, and cooperators are
Today's agriculturalists have many options for tedding hay, but only Pequea's Fluffer Tedders have helped farmers manage hay for more than 35 years. Available in 7-foot (Model 710) and 9-foot (Model 910) ground-drive or PTO models, Pequea's Fluffer Tedders gently
Washington State University , the first institution in the country to offer an academic major in organic agriculture, is now offering the nation's first online certificate in organic agriculture. "The U.S. organic food industry has grown at a rate of
Washington Planting Intentions Washington growers expect to plant 190,000 acres of field corn, 50,000 more acres than last year, the highest level since 1984's 200,000 acres. Good moisture in the growing areas and above average prices have made the outlook
Beginning this crop season, farmers will be able to receive text messages on their cell phones from their plants saying whether they are thirsty or not. Accent Engineering, Inc., of Lubbock, Tex., developed the SmartCrop™ automated drought monitoring system based
Gov. Chris Gregoire announced that Valoria Loveland, director of the Washington state Department of Agriculture (WSDA), is retiring. "Since her reappointment as agriculture director in April 2005, Valoria has been a tireless advocate for the farming community," the governor said.
At the most important benchmark date for predicting summer stream flows in Washington, the snow news is good news for the second year in a row. According to Scott Pattee, water supply specialist with USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service in
To find out how much acreage is being farmed using conservation tillage, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have gone up high-to satellites. Soil scientists Dana G. Sullivan and Timothy C. Strickland, in the ARS Southeast Watershed Research Unit at Tifton,
Ag Leader Technology, a leading manufacturer of precision farming equipment, along with Holland Scientific, a leader in active light reflectance crop sensing technology, announced today that Ag Leader has become the exclusive distributor for Holland Scientific's secondgeneration active light reflectance
Kubota introduces its high-performance M59 power utility, 59-horsepower tractor loader backhoe (TLB) designed to tackle any task. Designed with strength and supreme versatility in mind, the M59 features an integral mainframe to absorb the loads of every day loader and
Heavy-duty, mid-range AGCO® LT Series tractors are now Tier III compliant with more power, even better fuel efficiency and B100 use approved. The AGCO LT85A and LT95A tractors combine the versatility of utility tractors and the rugged engineering of high-horsepower
Case IH is launching a new Flail conditioning system to meet the needs of customers growing grass-type hay. "If you're looking for aggressive conditioning of grass crops without stem damage, take a look at the new Case IH Flail option,"
