Agritechnica 2007: The World's Leading Exhibition for Agricultural Machinery in Hanover, Germany November 13 - 17, 2007.
FRANKFURT, Germany, January 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Agritechnica is the world's top farm equipment show. Its gates open to an international public November 13 to 17, 2007 in Hanover with two Preview Days November 11 and 12. Agritechnica exhibitors feature the highest proportion of globally operating manufacturers and authorized importers....

Cuba sugar harvest up 28% over 2007.
Plague-resistant sugar cane varieties and improved cultivation have dramatically reduced the presence of cane rust and smut in Cuban sugar plantations, boosting output, according to Reuters, quoting the island's top sugar expert. "Today we are at one of our best moments in terms of cane varieties," Ignacio...

Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms, 1920-1950.
Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms, 1920-1950. By John van Willigen and Anne van Willigen. Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History Series. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2006. Pp. xx, 260. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2387-5.) Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms, 1920-1950 documents rural...

Development of the cotton production/ginning system: ... and the future historic role of the engineer.
The world's annual production of cotton is 100 million bales: a "weighty" matter, as one bale of lint fiber weighs approximately 227 kg (500 lb). Farmers and ginners in the United States produce, harvest, and process approximately 18 million bales of cotton per year putting U.S. production of cotton...

The mechanizing miracle of tomato harvesting.
Take a valuable, hand-harvested crop, add a legislated labor shortage, throw in a bit of engineering ingenuity and--voila!--you get an instant solution. In the case of processing tomatoes, it might appear that way at first glance. In 1964, Congress ended the Bracero program that had brought laborers from Mexico...

Record blueberry crop expected.
Byline: Ilene Aleshire The Register-Guard The Oregon blueberry harvest is almost completed, with record production and prices expected, according to the Oregon State University Extension Service. Last year, the Oregon blueberry crop brought in a record $53.1 million in gross sales with more than 35.6...

Feeling right from wrong: brain's social emotions steer moral judgments.
People who suffer damage to a brain area that generates compassion, shame, and other social sentiments apply coldly rational thinking to hypothetical moral dilemmas, even those that involve terrible personal loss, a team of neuroscientists finds. In contrast, people with healthy brains or with damage to other...

Four scholarships awarded to outstanding ASABE student members.
ASABE annually presents four scholarships to ASABE student members enrolled in an ABET or CEAB accredited agricultural/bioystems engineering program. This year's recipients are Patrick L. Henry, Kyle J. Baumgartner, Amy K. Good, and Trisha L. Culbertson. ASABE Foundation Scholarship Patrick L. Henry, a junior in...

Liquid gold: new varietals, production innovation, and the rise of the farmers' market are changing the olive oil industry in California. Will homegrown soon replace the favorite imports on tables around the West? Bill Staggs reports from the Central Valley.
"I see myself as a kind of missionary," Alan Greene says. He's surveying his company's olive grove in Butte County, in California's Sacramento Valley. Stretching out before him are not the towering, irregularly shaped olive trees so familiar in the landscapes of the Mediterranean, but laser-straight rows of squat,...

Organic panic: border closing chokes farms.
ORGANIC FARMER Dick Peixoto has already ripped out 30 acres of vegetables this year, and another 100 acres are on the verge of being overrun by weeds. According to the Associated Press, his losses so far total about $200,000. The cause: immigration policy. Recent crackdowns at the...