After the parade, farmers and their families sat side-by-side in the fire station, sharing stories and a chicken meal that benefited the fire department. But when your mode of transportation is a tractor that caroms along at 7 or 8 mph that quick drive becomes a journey. Van Horn said he hoped for maybe 25 or 30 tractors after planning the first-time event for about four months. But the tractors and about 200 participants stretched almost 2 miles along the nearly 12-mile route. Slow and...

Changes in immigration laws and new guidelines on human contaminates in crops make labor shortages the greatest threat to today's agricultural economy. Over-planting and then thinning is a method most farmers use to obtain an optimal agricultural yield. Modern day agricultural producers depend upon hundreds of hired laborers to meet critical crop processing deadlines. The CTM is unaffected by weather, time of day, illness, immigration laws, pay rate, and lowers risks of crop contamination....

Along with blacksmithing demonstrations and a display of antique washing machines, the festival strives to show how crops were harvested in the days when gasoline-powered tractors were still a novelty and horses were a common sight, Leners said. Glen Brinkman, adviser for the Blue Valley Antique Collectors Association, said along with field demonstrations of plowing and oat threshing, some of the activities going on at the barn will include pressing sorghum into molasses and pressing...

Knight, who used to draw the attention of the entire lake community when he would take off or land his seaplane, died over the weekend when he was run over by a tractor. Knight, 57, a longtime resident of the lake village of Munsonville, was a dentist who would fly to and from his office in Jaffrey by plane. Pratt said Knight was apparently using the tractor to move his boat sometime between 6:30 and 8:30 p. Walsh, who recalled a gregarious neighbor, said the nature of the untimely death...

October 16, 2006 Road To The IGF: St Diffusions' SimTractor Continuing Gamasutras Road to the IGF feature, which profiles and interviews Independent Games Festival 2007 entrants, todays interview is with Benoit Brabant of St Diffusions, developer of SimTractor. October 16, 2006 Road To The IGF: St Diffusions' SimTractor Continuing Gamasutras Road to the IGF feature, which profiles and interviews Independent Games Festival 2007 entrants, todays interview is with Benoit Brabant of St...