International Truck History

And with a snow plow attachment, your farm truck can make quick work of plowing your driveway during the winter. During hay season on my farm, we frequently put our four-wheel-drive truck into action, using it to pull a trailer around the fields for the...

“Farmers who transport their product outside the state should be exempted from some regulatory burdens, just like other farmers who don't live near state borders.” Kent Bacus, NCBA's associate director of legislative affairs echoes Johnson's sentiments.

For towing a gross weight of 2 tons or less, you can get by with a two-wheel-drive, half-ton truck or SUV with a category III receiver hitch. Pickup and flatbed trucks have handled such farm tasks for nearly a century.

SFO is encouraging all food vendors to use sustainable seafood, cage-free and antibiotic eggs, organic produce and meats, non-hydrogenated oils, fair trade coffee and milk free of rBST hormones.

Out of Africa By the end of his three-year commitment to the Peace Corps, Roosenberg was hooked: “Oxen could triple the food production of subsistence farmers. Raised on a Michigan dairy farm, Roosenberg went to Dahomey, in west Africa (the current-day...

Heady with its first success, the Italian branch of Slow Food was born. Three years later, the Slow Food movement was founded in Paris and Slow Food USA followed in 2000. Combating the urbanite fast-food frenzy, Slow Food International promotes local...

First, let's talk about where digestion starts: the beak. “If I didn't have my own spring, I'd purify the water using a Berkey [water filter] or something similar.” Variety Is Good, But Quick Change Is Bad Shutterstock Chickens are hearty and enjoy...

Traditionally, this herb has been picked around the feast of St. John on June 23. The oil, made each year at this time, is a topical marvel for blunt force trauma, damaged nerve endings and viruses that cause irritation in the nerves.

You can watch and download a free video each month, too. Free Film This Week! Until Dec. With 2015—the International Year of Soils—on our heels, here's your chance at a free soil education.

You'll have to do a careful inspection to be sure it's fully composted and perhaps ask a few questions if you are concerned about what was used to make it, but around here, it's usually a good-quality product—and the price certainly can't be beat.

Co-ops exist in virtually every sector of the economy, according to the International Co-operative Alliance , a nongovernmental organization that touts itself as “the global voice for cooperatives.” The ICA classifies co-ops into eight major categories:...

Mom and Dad did the usual stuff. Hutch started coming out head first with his front legs folded back, so my mom put some stuff on her arm and pushed Hutch back and pulled his legs forward so he could slide out.

You don't need a livestock trailer to transport small animals like sheep, goats, pigs and calves, but it's trickier to haul them in a truck or van. Last week, Dad and Fayre, our Portuguese Water Dog took three of our young sheep, Aliss, Dixie Moon and...

You can eat it hot or cold. He United Nations focus on Quinoa will help heighten public awareness of the nutritional, economic, cultural and environmental aspects ofquinoa. The majority of worldcommodity quinoa imports come from farms in Peru and Bolivia.According...

28, 2011, and gardeners, no matter what size land they sow, are encouraged to organize an event to take part. Kitchen gardens, also known as edible gardens or potagers , are meant to produce healthy food for the dinner table.

The trick is to find a dewormer that works and then deworm animals only when they need it, based on fecal exams or FAMACHA testing . It's also important to give your animals enough dewormer, so you don't just kill off weaker worms and allow tough, resistant...

The embryo includes one or two primitive leaves called cotyledons that also sometimes play a role in energy storage. The outside of the roots reveals many fine hairs, which expand the surface area of the roots and allow the plant to absorb more water.

Top Yet Another Resource Land Link and Farm Link programs offer another resource for people interested in getting started in farming. Farm interns typically assist in planting, harvesting, animal husbandry, farmer's market sales and general upkeep of...

When it's time for the fiddleheads, I have been known to take a few days off of work, just so I can keep an eye on them. It is one of more than 20 species that was included in the diets of early North American Indians.

And because lamas nearly always travel lying down (lying down is known as “cushing” in lama lingo), they don't take up very much room. Unless they can't get out to use a poop pile outdoors, llamas and alpacas rarely dirty their stalls.

(I'm afraid North Dakota's billion and a half pound crop seems skimpy compared to the Russian Federations's output of over 12 trillion pounds.)Dubious anti-malarial properties aside, people of years past were smart to view sunflower seeds as a good food.

I found it rather bland, and thought it stuck to my teeth horribly, but I wouldn't have offended him for the world. Turn the Turkish delight out and cut into 1-inch squares with an oiled knife.

This spring, the Calif.-based company plans to launch “West Coast Chill Pure Energy Drink,” packaged in the world's first self-chilling can. Joseph Company International is taking the word “cool” to a different level.

By the middle 1800s in America, food was more plentiful, and it wasn't necessary to stretch a grain/liquid/meat combination to feed an entire family as it had been in the past. Pour mixture over bread, spread evenly and be sure to push bread down if its...

Of course that doesn't make these fish any less valuable or beautiful in the home water garden. Their markings are only hi (red) on shiro (white) which can come in a variety of different formations and shapes.Ogon refers to a solid color koi that can...

It's not much fun for us but it works! I cannot emphasize enough working with a livestock expert on your goat's nutrition plan. This is serious stuff, so ask your Mom to talk with your veterinarian, a nutritionist at your state veterinary college or your...

As demand increased, more farmers turned to Gorge Grown to sell their produce and more requests came from local communities wanting to be included in mobile market stops. The truck, a retrofitted cargo trailer designed by students from Savannah College...