The expense of farming has also changed. Farmers were easy to spot, with either round or square spots around their eyes, depending on the shape of their goggles. James recounted the evolution of farm equipment from mule-drawn plows to the air-conditioned cabs of todays tractors. Chamber presenter recounts changes over seven generations of farming. Farmers had to be self-sufficient in the 19th century, raising enough food for themselves, and their animals. There was a time when some farmers...

Register-Mail.com - Galesburg Register-Mail Online Corn cobs could become golden. Poet, a Sioux Falls-based company, which has been making ethanol from corn for more than 20 years, is working with Ihnen and several farm equipment manufacturers to develop ways to harvest, store and transport cobs that could one day join kernels as an alternative fuel source. Poet, a Sioux Falls-based company, which has been making ethanol from corn for more than 20 years, is working with Ihnen and several...

They run an 18-acre farm, but their tractor uses less than a couple of tanks of gas per year, they rarely spray for bugs, and they plant and trim their crop by hand. Cathy and her husband, Frank, are inviting the public to their farm for an open house and ceremony Thursday, where they will receive statewide honors for their eco-friendly efforts. They also walk the property with a battery-operated unit to apply herbicide, rather than use a gas-powered tractor. Trimming by hand means not...

This longer four year bumper-to-bumper limited warranty joins an already extensive list of other added product premiums and benefits associated with John Deere Select Series(TM) tractors. John Deere (Deere & Company - NYSE: DE) is the world's leading provider of advanced products and services for agriculture and forestry and a major provider of advanced products and services for construction, lawn and turf care, landscaping and irrigation. John Deere also provides financial services...

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John Deere dealer Tim Larkin has tripled his order for wheat-harvesting equipment -- the most in a decade -- in anticipation of sales to wheat farmers flush from record grain prices. You can keep it going for several years, but this windfall will mean they'll all be able to upgrade, and replace some older equipment. If you are already a Puget Sound Business Journal subscriber please create or sign into your bizjournals.com account to link your valid print subscription and have access to...