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June is Dairy Month: Thank a Cow or a Dairy Farmer!!

When the weather started to get really hot in Minnesota, we knew June had arrived. Dairy month gave us extra reasons to enjoy and share the fruits of our labors (well actually, our cows’ labors) with friends, family and buddies...

11 Tips to Keep Your Tractor Safe

You have a lot invested in your tractors and farm equipment. Stealing farm equipment isn’t a new trend to report on, but it does happen more often than you’d like to think. As I was reading the Spring issue of...

Student Delivers Project to School on a Tractor

This is a cool article about a student in the UK who used a Ferguson TED 20 tractor to deliver his GCSE project to school. In case you were wondering, the GCSE is like a high school diploma in the...

Farming Prevents Allergies?

A recent study suggests that children raised on a farm are shown to have a lower risk for developing allergies. “Dr. Jonas Eriksson of the University of Gothenburg and colleagues found that people who spent the first five years of...

The New RoGator 600 Sprayer

For RoGator fans in Europe and the Middle East, check out the new RoGator 600 Sprayer for state of the art, self-propelled spraying. “What chiefly sets it apart, says the Challenger marketing team, is the single-beam chassis which allows operators...

Farm Safety – Protecting your Ears

Farm safety is important to farmers young and old. It’s necessary for farmers to pay particular attention to protect their hearing. “Loud noises produced by farm machinery can put farmers at an increased risk for hearing loss.A study performed at...

Tips for Easy Virtual Farm Tours

Social media has put the power of marketing into everyone’s hands for little to no cost at all. With free and easy tools available like YouTube and Flickr, you can use this “power” positively to promote your message. YouTube is...

New to YouTube: Official Challenger & Fendt Channels

Congratulations to both Challenger and Fendt for recently launching their official YouTube channels! With YouTube now the #2 search engine (behind Google), video has been firmly established as a great way to share and gather information, learn about products, tell...

Stories from American Farm Families

Image by g55 via Flickr Five Farms: Stories from American Farm Families is an audio documentary produced by Wesley Horner Productions and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, and was distributed by Public Radio International™ in 2009. The...