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Zero Motorcycles, the global leader in the electric motorcycle industry, today announced that the company will pay for the first 25,000* miles of electricity when riders purchase a new 2012 Zero through the end of May. Zero launched the promotion to highlight the 2012 lineup?s incredible...

Collards is green, my dog's name is Blue and I'm so lucky to have a sweet thang like you. Yore hair is like cornsilk a-flapping in the breeze. Softer than Blue's and without all them fleas. You move like the bass, which excite...

A group of university students in the US is aiming to break a North American record by creating a car that can travel more than 1400km on one litre of fuel ? equivalent to fuel consumption of just 0.071 litres of fuel per 100km. Competing in its first SAE International Supermileage Challenge...

Corn planting is nearing completion in Ohio. Across the state and within localized areas, corn is at a range of growth stages. Some of the corn planted in April is showing up to 4 leaf collars but in later-planted fields, corn is still emerging. Troubleshooting emergence problems early is...

The World Pork Expo is in Des Moines on June 6-8. While it is the major equipment and allied industry show for US producers, it is growing in importance to the international production community. Each year sees growth in the number of foreign visitors. Foreign visitors come for a variety of...

In the Star Wars movies, moisture farmers on dry planets like Tattoine use droids to help with the repetitive, back-breaking labor, but that's in a galaxy far, far away. There's no doubt that robots are cool, but are robots on farms far off in our future? Actually, the future is already here...

For top rodeo events happening in the US go to http://www.topeventsusa.com/rodeo-events.html or for the International Professional Rodeo Association go to http://rodeo.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=rodeo&cdn=sports&tm=21&f=00&tt=14&bt=1&bts=0&zu=http%3A//www.iprarodeo.com/

For the CANADIAN PROFESSIONAL RODEO ASSOCIATION - 2012 TENTATIVE RODEO SCHEDULE go to http://www.rodeocanada.com/rodeo_schedule.htm

The joke used to be that if you want to hold a meeting on the farm, all you really need is a mirror. But you don?t hear that joke so often anymore. And even when you did hear it, it was never as true as the joke tried to make it seem. Farmers may not always have had meetings, but they?ve always...

It's enough to make a race fan cry. This image taken by Dick Carlson is from the 2005 Brian Redman International Challenge at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wis. Allegedly, half of the pack fell behind and sped up to close the gap between the leaders, who were behind the pace car at the time...

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MS Gregson N1000 and N1250 Sprayers 
 MS Gregson Novation sprayers come in N1000-gallon and N1250-gallon models, with a Novation design that is targeted toward operators who want a simple, clean sprayer with a rate controller and 60- to 90-foot booms. 
 Gregson...

As the world population heads toward 9 billion by 2050, there has been much hand-wringing over how to properly feed so many. In the developing world, it turns out mobile phones may be the best hope for growers looking to improve yields, market crops and move out of subsistence-level farming...

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A restructured CWB has no plans to initiate any further sales of organic grains. CWB, as the Canadian Wheat Board recently retitled itself, announced Monday it has carried out all purchases and deliveries for its 2011-12 organic marketing program and ended that program entirely. Winnipeg-based...

Looking around INDYCAR, Latin American drivers are representing in full force. Drivers from Argentina, Venezuela, Chile, and other regions make up a large portion of the IZOD IndyCar Series and Mazda Road to Indy rosters. You?ll notice one country missing from that list though?Mexico. Previous...

Alberta Premier Alison Redford?s returning cabinet will include her previous attorney general and justice minister as her new minister for agriculture and rural development. Redford on Tuesday announced lawyer Verlyn Olson, the MLA for Wetaskiwin-Camrose since 2008, will take over the...

Spring wheat and barley growers, especially those in the black soil zones, may appreciate a new Axial brand from Syngenta. Axial Xtreme combines the broad-spectrum annual grass control of Axial Herbicide with the broadleaf herbicide fluroxypyr. Axial should deliver a high level of control of...

Canada?s iconic Tim Hortons chain has given its pork suppliers until the end of this year to have ?clear plans? in place to phase out sow gestation stalls. The Oakville, Ont.-based quick-service restaurant firm said it also set a target of purchasing at least 10 per cent of its eggs from...

No resistance from Canadian, U.S. competition watchdogs Swiss commodity giant Glencore International has received the all-clear from Canadian and U.S. antitrust watchdogs to buy Canada?s largest grain handler. Glencore reported Friday it has received a ?no action? letter from the office of...