Several years in the making, the law is intended to protect responsible agricultural operations and bring harmony between farmers and their non-farm neighbors. Gordon, an active farmer, is a legislative representative on the Albany County Agricultural and Farmland Protection Board, which joined with the county Department of Economic Development, Conservation and Planning and Cornell Cooperative Extensive to devise the new law. Gordon, an active farmer, is a legislative representative on...

Every tractor lined up in the park has a story to tell, and the owner of each tractor will be glad to describe the tractor's pedigree. To that purpose, club members started parking their antique tractors Thursday afternoon on the show grounds 6 miles south of Harrison on Highway 65. Knowledgeable antique tractor enthusiasts say the individual characteristics of each tractor can be deciphered by reading its serial number. The event went into high gear this morning and will conclude Saturday...

John Deere 4020 tractor values rising. John Deere 4020 tractors are worth more now than at any time in my almost 18 years of tracking sale prices. I've written about them many times over the years with those columns never failing to produce a high volume of feedback from readers. It seems the old green 4020 carries a strong emotional bond to our recent farming past. But what's driving the continued rising values are 4020s like the 1968 model sold this past Sunday on a small farm auction in...

A new program to match retiring farmers with aspiring farmers is helping prospective agriculturists get a start in the business, but finding the land is just the first step. The Northeast Ohio FarmLink program, which started in February, is looking to link farmers who want to sell their land with men and women who want to start farming in an attempt to protect farmland from potential developers and to keep farms throughout the region operational. Chronicle-Telegram Once there s land, much...

The rolling out of land and the provision of inputs to farmers without the support of a strong mechanisation programme has impacted negatively on crop production. Government reckons that the absence of an effective mechanisation programme has been the major inhibiting factor to increasing crop production and as a result, is formulating a strategic document on mechanisation to address tillage problems at individual farmer level. Government reckons that the absence of an effective...

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...