Police have appealed for information after a brick was thrown at a tractor driver in part of Leicestershire. Brick is thrown at tractor driver. The brick caused damage to the side windscreen and bodywork of the tractor. The driver, who was mowing grass verges at the time, was uninjured. This motorist could have information that is vital to our enquiries and I would urge her to contact me. Officers said they thought one of two passing motorcyclists threw the object on Cosby Road, Cosby on...

Five water pumping equipment worth over 30 million cedis have been presented to some farming groups in Pusiga, near Bawku to assist them to engage in dry season farming. He expressed the hope that with the supply of the equipment, the youth will stay at home and engage in meaningful farming activities to reduce poverty. MP presents irrigation equipment to farmers. Akunye said during this period the youth were exposed to vices and other dehumanizing conditions that had adverse effects on...

INDIGENOUS agro-business dealer Farmers World has started distributing tractors and various other farming implements which it acquired from China to tobacco and other farmers throughout the country. Speaking at the programme's official launch yesterday, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr Gideon Gono said the tractors would go a long way in helping the country achieve mechanisation, stressing it was imperative that all precautionary measures be taken to ascertain the suitability of the...

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...

Lentz GREGG TOWNSHIP -- Twelve-year-old Troy Frantz had a grim look of determination on his face as he slammed the throttle down on his old Sears SS garden tractor, a look that was soon replaced by one of surprise when the front wheels jumped into the air. Lentz GREGG TOWNSHIP -- Twelve-year-old Troy Frantz had a grim look of determination on his face as he slammed the throttle down on his old Sears SS garden tractor, a look that was soon replaced by one of surprise when the front wheels...

Erickson's tractor-collecting days started sometime back in the 1950s when he came across a 1918 Fordson tractor, which was sort of the Model-T of tractors: a small, economical machine that many farmers could afford. As impressive as the tractors are, however, they are only a small part of Erickson's collection of antique machinery, cars, trucks, motorcycles, buildings and other accoutrements. Members of antique-car clubs, antique-tractor clubs and other machine clubs will be on hand to...