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07/03/08 Power & Economy

Power and Economy. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Line On Agriculture. I hate to sound like a broken record but gas prices are high. And along with that those trips round a round a field on the tractor get more and more difficult for farmers to pay for. One thing I have found out, there are no high mileage, diesel sipping tractors. But the folks at Massey-Ferguson are making huge in-roads in getting good power plus good economy according to John Bohnker, product marketing specialist for Agco. ...

07/03/08 RBST Hormone

Well, the barn door has been thrown wide open recently and the green activists were standing right behind it! A recent study shows that the synthetic version of an all natural hormone, the production boosting hormone RBST is actually allowing dairy farmers to leave a smaller environmental footprint by increasing milk production with fewer cows. Fewer cows mean a reduction in natural resource usage; such as water, land and fuel. As Dale Bauman, author of the study states, “Sustainability is impo...