The pit area was bustling with activity during the competition, with drivers and spectators alike providing a party-like atmosphere while the tractors were being weighed in. Approximately 120 people in the main stands, and about the same amount in the pit area, talked, laughed, ate and cheered on friends and family members, whose tractors struggled against the weight hitched behind them. The tractors pulled a rig containing a 30,000-pound weight that gradually slows them to a stop....

Within the next decade those older farmers will be looking for someone to take over their operations and selling millions of acres of land. farmers produce more food than any other country in the world and are tops in corn, soybeans, milk and cattle, according to a United Nations agriculture census. At the same time, it's becoming more costly for young people to go into farming, and many of them see that they can make a better living by leaving the rural areas. Pennsylvania, Connecticut...

Only last year, former Finance minister Herbert Murerwa in his 2007 budget speech promised the nation that the government would institute measures to contain expenditure. THIS week the central bank and government once again dug deep into their reserves of invention to find the cure to hyperinflation which is wreaking havoc on the economy. In December 2005 the government ruled it would "compulsorily acquire" any farming equipment and material left behind by white farmers. Piled-up equipment...

Billed as the country's oldest event of its kind, the show features all types of unique and rare farm equipment on display, including International Harvester Equipment and Port Huron steam engines. Schramm said it takes a lot of effort to restore and maintain the antique steam engines, tractors and other equipment that will be displayed at the show. Daily events at the show include a display of more than 40 working steam engines powering a sawmill, plus threshing machines, a veneer mill,...

A parade hightlighting the antique tractors will begin at 3. There will be a variety of entertainment for your enjoyment and mouthwatering food booths offering strawberry shortcakes, sundaes and milkshakes. Hots, hamburgers, salt potatoes, and nachos, plus soda and spring water will be available. If you're hankering for some strawberries you can pick up a quart at the festival. New this year is a pulled pork dinner with takeouts available. The drawing for raffle winners will take place...

HARARE Several top Zimbabwean opposition officials have received cheaper-priced farm machinery funded by the government under its controversial land reforms despite previously denying benefiting from a scheme widely seen as an extension of President Robert Mugabe s network of patronage. HARARE Several top Zimbabwean opposition officials have received cheaper-priced farm machinery funded by the government under its controversial land reforms despite previously denying benefiting from a...