Shelbyville Daily Union - Irrigation company expands in Valdosta. A worldwide leader in agriculture products and equipment is set to move into its new Valdosta production facility today. The current building is being transformed into a key production facility with the capability of serving both the local market and numerous international markets. The acquisition of Roberts Irrigation by John Deere, which occurred in June 2006, joined the already growing company focused on agricultural...

The exhibition featured some 3000 specimens that were predominantly the machinery for construction of roads and town-planning as well as construction of bridges. The purpose of the visit was to get acquainted with up-to-date machinery displayed at the international exhibition BAUMA-2007 held once in three years in the German city of Munich. It is reported that the partner-companies have made a number of new offers as to supply of highly efficient road construction machinery, earth diggers...

The world's largest agricultural equipment manufacturer is also an innovator in computers and sensor devices that make tractors, combines, construction machinery and lawn-care equipment more efficient. Prices for many agricultural commodities have rallied in recent months, potentially giving farmers more money to spend on equipment. It predicts sales of its agricultural equipment will be flat as Congress considers multiyear farm subsidy legislation, but should pick up in fiscal 2008....

While they ate breakfast, a service technician at RDO Equipment cleaned the large tractor tires and the air seeder with a pressure washer. Kensal-area farmer Jeff Bata, who was on the Farm Rescue route in 2006 after severely injuring an eye, has offered to provide fuel this year at no cost. Gross, a former North Dakota farmboy, started the assistance program last year as a way to give back to the way of life he'd known and loved. Gross would have Weible sign off on the amount of seed and...

His farming background as a younger man seemed to go hand-in-hand with his career as parts man, parts manager and service manager for one of the region s top agricultural dealers. He s presently in his 28th year as service manager, and feels fortunate for the opportunity to meet and get to know so many fine people from the farming community. Breckheimer said one of the things that bothered him in recent years was the enormous cost and financial investments involved in farming. That, he...

Swanson explains, You have to keep books on all of your different enterprises your corn, soybeans, livestock and are interviewed to determine how your projects have progressed. At the age of 12, he started driving a tractor, the beginning of a lifelong romance with that important farm equipment. His least favorite chore was picking up the rocks that surfaced in the fields each spring and taking them to the fence row. He raised corn and soybeans, still helping his parents with their...