An elderly man has been left seriously injured after being trapped underneath his overturned tractor at a vintage machinery show in Dumfries. Man trapped by vintage tractor. David Jackson, from Ruthwell near Annan, was taking part in the show at Park Farm when the accident happened. Eyewitnesses said the 1948 Field Marshall tractor skidded as Mr Jackson was driving it up a ramp onto a lorry. He was treated at the scene by paramedics then taken to Dumfries Infirmary.

The programme, spearheaded by the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, Zimbabwe Prison Services and other relevant units, is based on three main factors: to provide national cohesion, provide a firm basis for economic turnaround and to ensure the success of the land reform programme. He said the central bank was also expected to import farming equipment and implements that would be allocated to serious farmers in every province to boost agriculture so that the country becomes self-sufficiency. THE...

farm economy is fueling a rebound in sales at the company's flagship agricultural-equipment group, the housing market's collapse is putting pressure on Deere's sales of construction equipment. Deere said agricultural-equipment sales gained 14 percent, to $3. The upside earnings performance in the second quarter "came from execution" at the company, rather than a strong recovery in agricultural equipment volumes, he said. Deere said the latest results reflect the profit-margin contribution...

This year less than one tenth of the targeted wheat crop has been planted due to a shortage of tractors among other shortages of equipment and inputs. Zimbabwe s farming areas are divided into communal lands which have long been farmed by subsistence farmers and resettlement areas, which used to be farmed by whites before 2000. Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono has become increasingly frustrated with the slow pace of recovery of the agricultural sector, thrown into disarray by the launch...

The movement has relied on the good will of farmers, many of whom have been lending land to poor landless farmers free of charge. To further help poor farmers, communal farmers associations have sent agricultural workers to provide training on cultivation and breeding to poor farmers and mobilised well-off households to lend seedlings and farming equipment to the poor. m farm which he says promises a bumper maize crop this year, farmer Si says with a cheerful smile: "The profit earned from...

The Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute has released an innovative software program to aid producers and entrepreneurs in making critical agricultural business decisions. The project, which was funded by Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food s Agriculture Development Fund, was initiated to look at the economics of whole-crop harvesting, but the resulting computer program can be applied to many different types of farming operations, explained Les Hill, the Business Development and...