Thanks to innovations in the cellphone industry, the phone you’re carrying around today is definitely much “smarter” than the one you had 10 years ago. So it goes with farm equipment technology –- steady advances over the years have raised your farm tractor’s IQ, too. Case IH is one of the latest companies to upgrade [...]
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Building a Smarter Tractor
Posted in News, Tractors, tagged Ag, ASF, Case IH, farm, technology on March 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Fastline Names New National Accounts Manager
Posted in News, tagged Ag, farm, Fastline, Fastline.com, National Accounts, Sales on March 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Fastline is pleased to announce the addition of Larry Childs as the newest member of our National Accounts Management Team. Prior to joining Fastline Larry was an Account Manager for One Stroke Inks in Louisville, KY. He has an extensive background in sales and managing national accounts during his time working for VeriFone and Kelly [...]
Tax Tips for Your Farm
Posted in News, tagged 2012 Tax season, Ag, CPA, farm, savings, Taxes, Tips on March 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Farm CPA, Paul Neiffer, shares tax tips on everything from hiring your children as employees to gift tax exemptions. Medicare sutax…. Tax incentives… Depreciation… there is too much to know and remember. Don’t miss out on anything this tax season. Check out the tax tips on Agweb.com here. For Previous Fastline Blog Posts – Click [...]
Judge OKs $140M Dairy Deal
Posted in News, tagged Ag, Dairy, farm, Law, News, Politics on February 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Five months after vacating a $140 million settlement between Dean Foods and the Southeast dairy farmers that supply the company with local milk, the agreement is back on track. Judge J. Ronnie Greer, in U.S. District Court in Greeneville, approved the settlement – subject to a proper notice and fairness hearing – in an order [...]
Farm Equipment Attracting Investment, Especially for International Expansion
Posted in News, tagged Ag, AGCO, CNH, Deere, farm, Farming, Industry trends, Investments, News on February 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Evidence continues to mount that ag is an attractive place to invest these days. News during the past few weeks has reinforced the trend of international investments in agriculture — especially in farm equipment. While many of the deals are coming from within the industry, a high level of interest is coming from financial investment [...]
WTF? Day Across America
Posted in News, Shows and Events on February 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I love Farmers hosted an interesting day, dedicated to asking WTF? Where’s the food without the farm. This day was dedicated to spreading awareness about farming and agriculture. The video above goes into a bit more detail of how that was done. They will be hosting another WTF? Day on March 21 and hope to [...]
Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack Strikes Optimistic Tone
Posted in News, tagged Ag, farm, Farmers, USDA on January 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
As the campaign season heats up, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was in Missouri yesterday to spread the message and priorities outlined by President Barack Obama in his State of the Union speech Tuesday. Echoing the same theme from the president’s speech of fighting for the middle class, Vilsack sought to portray actions by the [...]
USDA says Rural Development progress made
Posted in News, tagged Community, farm, Farming, Fiscal year, Growth, money, Rural, Taxes, USDA on January 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The head of the USDA Rural Development Office says the work they’re doing is having a positive impact on Rural America. Undersecretary Dallas Tonsager says the 2011 Rural Development Fiscal Year 2011 Annual Report shows they have invested almost $29 Billion dollars and “created or saved an estimated 440-thousand” jobs through the rural business cooperative, [...]
Mobile App Now Available For the National Farm Machinery Show
Posted in News, tagged #NFMS12, Ag, Android, App, farm, Farmer, Farming, iphone, Louisville, National Farm Machinery Show, technology on January 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The National Farm Machinery Show continues its tradition of meeting demands of its attendees by offering a mobile app for the February 15-18 show. The first-ever mobile app, called “NFMS ’12,” for the National Farm Machinery Show is now available for free on smartphones (iPhone, Android and Blackberry) and features an interactive exhibitor map and [...]
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