Implement & Tractor articles from March 2000

Implement & Tractor archives from March 2000

Mahindra's Compact 4WDs Enter the US Market.(four wheel drive tractors)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2000... A recent interview with San jay Gupta, president of Mahindra USA, focused on the company's expanding marketing efforts in the US. John W. Inman, P.E. I&T Editorial Correspondent Mahindra USA recently introduced three new four-wheel...

Big US Market for Used European Tractors.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2000... Small US farms of 5-6 acres are the major customers for Dutch-based Beukeveld Exports, located an hour's drive north of Amsterdam in the town of Wieringerwerf. The firm sources an astonishing 1,200 aging Ford, John Deere and MF tractors each...

News Briefs.(includes multiple articles)(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2000... FAPRI: more ag exports, less value The volume of US agricultural exports is projected to increase in 2000, but the value will continue to decline another year before recovering, according to a new analysis by the Food and Agricultural...

Cleat Cover Saves Wear on Tractor Tires.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Brothers David Esaias and Jeff Esaias, of Clarinda, Iowa, claim their newly patented Tractor Tire Cleat Cover will save wear on tractor tires. "Because the fields I farm are miles apart, I drive hundreds of miles every year on pavement and...

Product Review.
March 1, 2000... Stellar Ag Tire Truck The 2200 MP ag tire service truck is the first in the MP series from Stellar Industries. It has an 11' aluminum body with more than 56 cubic feet of storage, a floor made of heavy aluminum planking and stainless steel...

Italian Manufacturer's Products Find a Receptive Ag Audience.(Sitrex Agricultural Machinery)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... "Sitrex has been very innovative in the haying machinery industry and they are among the top quality manufacturers we work with," said Steve White, president of White's Inc., which has been importing Sitrex equipment since 1990. Those are...

Who Introduced Flotation Tires to US Farmers?(Ross Fischer, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Back in 1960, a customer told Ross Fischer, a tire dealer from Monticello, IN, that he wanted a single-tire configuration that would reduce rutting and soil compaction in his fields. No such tire existed in any of Fischer's farm tire catalogs....

Company News.(includes multiple articles)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... * All family stock in Orthman Mfg. Co., Lexington, NE, has been sold. to John McCoy, company president. Orthman manufactures its own brand of agricultural and industrial equipment in addition to OEM equipment.. * Gehl Company is...

Business-not-as-usual on the Internet.(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2000... What started in 1985 as a publications project to help Canadian dealers put a value on used equipment has led to a "dot.com" company that is utilizing the latest communications technology. Merlyn Friesen was an equipment dealer in Outlook,...

Turf, Lawn & Garden.(Product Announcement)
March 1, 2000... Wide-Area Mower John Deere's 1600 wide-area mower was designed specifically for parks, golf courses, educational facilities and other institutional applications where speed equals economy. It can cover 8.5 acres an hour at 6.5 mph and has...

What's That Thing Worth?(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Biggest Big Bud Ever Built It's awesome, it's monstrous, it's unbelievingly big. It's the Big Bud 16V747 built in 1977, the largest tractor ever made, by Ron Harmon and the Northern Mfg. Co., in Havre, Montana. It's now back in Montana,...

Wet or Dry, Same Tire.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... It's a pretty common belief that the wheel was one of mankind's first inventions, or discoveries, probably right after the harnessing of fire. So when the I&T editor asked me to find any recent patents associated with tires or wheels for...

I&T's Auction Action.
March 1, 2000... April 15th. Anyone else out there dread this particular day? Tax time is not my idea of fun -- scrambling around trying to document every possible deduction, trying to figure out exactly how to manage the cash flow to get Uncle Sam paid,...

US/Canadian Tractor & Combine Sales.
March 1, 2000... US UNIT RETAILS SALES - JANUARY/FEBUARY 2000 Farm Wheel Tractors EMI 2 WD 2 WD 2 WD Total 0-40 HP 40-100 HP 40+100 HP...

ASAE Names Power and Machinery Outstanding Agricultural Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... The accomplishments of agricultural engineering during the last 100 years helped bring American agriculture through the Industrial Age and then propel mechanized agriculture into the information-based agriculture of the Information Age,...

Take Time to Cool That Turbo.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Ask any knowledgeable farmer if he takes the time to cool down his turbo, before shutting down for lunch or for the night and the usual answer is, "Of course." He has read the operator's manual. But, a look inside most dead turbos,...

French companies create tractor guidance.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... An operational prototype of an automatic guidance system for agricultural tractors, using a kinematic GPS, is performing field trials in France. The guidance system, planned to launch in 2003, was developed by Renault Agriculture, in...

SAME Deutz-Fahr joint ventures in India.(International Pages)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... SAME Deutz-Fahr has signed a joint venture in tractor production with Greaves Limited, an Indian firm specializing in production of mechanization systems for the agricultural market. The two companies have been collaborating for the past four...

Ukrainian opportunities.(International Pages)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Freedom Farm International, Inc. (FFI), a US agricultural production and processing company, says the time is good for US entrepreneurs to invest and farm in Ukraine. FFI, in Ukraine in 1991, currently farms 9,000 acres in the southern...

Roudebush Equipment gets Bush Hog awards.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Roudebush Equipment Company of Westfield, IN, represented by Steve Roudebush, sales manager, received two awards from Bush Hog. The dealership was named tops in the nation in sales volume of Bush Hog Zero Turn mowers. Another award was for...

Correction of NAEDA membership item.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Mike Kraemer, of the North American Equipment Dealers Association (NAEDA), has told I&T that an item that ran in the January-February issue is incorrect. At the group's winter convention in Maui, the NAEDA board ONLY approved to move...

Gloves sell well.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... A survey of hardware retailers found that sales of work and garden gloves comprised a lucrative product category. Sixty-nine percent of the respondents reported substantial sales increases over the past five years. Respondents said...

Mid-America elects officers.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Officers elected by Mid-America Equipment Retailers Association include Joseph C. Minnis, Jr., Minnis International, Terre Haute, IN, president; Jay Bucy, Louisville Tractor, Louisville, KY, vice president; Edwin A. Burgin, Roberts Farm...

Case increases its presence on the World Wide Web.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Case IH's www.casecorp.com homepage now has a used equipment locator and more than 1500 sites for its construction and agricultural equipment dealerships. By clicking UsedEquipNet.com on the site, customers can view and get information...