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Operator Comfort Takes Center Stage
You arrive early on the jobsite, ready to go to work. You open the door on the enclosed cab of your new compact loader and climb in through the roomy opening. You put your coffee in the cup holder. Someone with shorter legs than yours was running the loader yesterday afternoon, so you quickly adjust the seat to fit your larger frame.
February 19, 2013
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Going Green with Lawn Care
The Ozark Empire Fairgrounds E-Plex was filled Saturday with vendors putting greenery at the forefront at the annual Lawn and Garden Show.
February 19, 2013
Business
Kubota Introduces BX70 Series Sub-Compact Tractors
Kubota Tractor Corporation has introduced the BX70 Series sub-compact tractors with four ready-to-work models: the BX1870, BX2370, BX2670 and the BX25D. With improved comfort, convenience and operation, Kubota’s popular BX series has the power and versatility for digging, hauling, mowing, snow-blowing, tilling, and plowing through yard projects.
February 19, 2013
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Tree Giveaway
The Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Tree Commission will give away more than 38,000 tree seedlings in this year’s annual tree giveaway, reports The Tuscaloosa News. Together with the Alabama Power Service Organization and the Druid City Canopy Coalition, the commission will offer varieties such as southern sugar maple, crape myrtle, dogwood, southern magnolia, white oak, live oak, redbud and dahoon holly.
February 19, 2013
Business
Overcome Business Struggles
Like many landscapers, Ken Noll, one of our Landscaper of the Year Finalists, had his fair share of struggles when starting his business, The Garden Kingdom, in Glen Carbon, Illinois.
February 19, 2013
Business
KorTerra Creates App for Safe Digging
A new smartphone app has been developed by KorTerra to provide safe digging and important call before you dig information. KorTerra’s new damage prevention app is currently being used by Minnesota’s call before you dig center, Gopher State One Call. The app is available for download in the Apple App Store and Google Play for Apple or Android smartphone or tablet devices.
February 18, 2013
Business
Scotts Promotes Less-Stinky Animal Repellents
Like a lot of other gardeners, Sally Pickard is looking forward to the day when deer will stop eating her tulip buds. She’s tried products using animal urine or putrid eggs to keep them away.
February 18, 2013
Business
Bayer CropScience Expands Green Solutions Team
Environmental Science, a division of Bayer CropScience LP, has added Derek Settle, Ph.D. as the newest addition to its growing team of technical service specialists for the turf and ornamentals (T&O) market—known as the Green Solutions Team. Bayer’s Green Solutions Team provides customers the scientific expertise to address their unique business goals and challenges and also helps support the industry as a whole with scientific thought leadership, education and training.
February 18, 2013
Business
Case Opts for DOC-Only Tier 4 Final Path on Two Skid Steers
Two Case mid-frame skid steer models — the radial-path SR175 and the vertical-path SV185 — will offer a diesel oxidation catalyst-only solution for Tier 4 Final emissions compliance, says Case Construction Equipment.
February 15, 2013
Business
Fleet Tracker Helps Recover $70,000 Worth of Stolen Equipment
When Dave Rogers signed up Elcon Corporation for Zonar’s fleet management system to keep tabs on company equipment, he didn’t think he would be using it to track and catch thieves red-handed with $70,000 worth of his company’s equipment in a remote area of northwestern Oregon.
February 15, 2013
Business
Collapsed Connecticut Greenhouses Could Hurt Landscape Industry
The massive storm that dumped more than 2 feet of snow in many parts of Connecticut was only the latest headache for Mark Sellew as he struggles through storms and a weak economy to run his family farm in rural Lebanon.
February 15, 2013
Business
Top 10 Attachments
Until just recently, the Great Recession put a good many landscapers across the country in survival mode. A dearth of new home construction along with a tsunami of foreclosures and high unemployment resulted in the loss of many longtime landscape maintenance customers as well as the availability of new landscaping projects. As a result, many landscapers have been forced to reconsider the equipment they need to remain productive and profitable.
February 15, 2013
Business
Darwin Perennials Day Set for June
The day has come again for everyone and anyone to get in the know for the growing season. Darwin Perennials Day will be on June 19 from 8 a.m.-3 p.m.
February 14, 2013
Business
John Deere Reveals 35G Compact Excavator
John Deere has introduced a 35G Compact Excavator. A smaller, nimbler cousin to John Deere’s G-Series excavators, the 35G is designed for rental, commercial/residential building, landscaping, underground and site development, and offers a Final Tier 4 engine, without the need for an after treatment device.
February 14, 2013
Business
Mower Shop Fixes Mower, Much More
Tom Adinolfi is owner of the Mower Shop of Dayton, but he’s also been an auto mechanic, contractor, DJ, nightclub manager, chemical reactor operator, semi-pro hockey player, lifeguard and bouncer.
February 14, 2013
Business
Kubota Launches Three Compact Excavators
Kubota unveiled three new compact excavators at World of Concrete – the KX040-4, KX018-4 and the U35-4. The machines, which replace older models, include a number of enhancements, says Keith Rohrbacker, construction equipment product manager for Kubota. “New features include heated cabs with plenty of leg room, wider door openings and improved auxiliary hydraulics,” Rohrbacker says.
February 13, 2013
Business
Bad Boy Mowers Introduces UTV Series
Bad Boy Mowers is introducing its new Intimidator Series at the 2013 Louisville Farm and Machinery Show. The series features American-made utility vehicles with 1000cc Kohler diesel, 750cc Kohler gas and 48 Volt AC electric UTV built on a common solid-steel, all welded chassis with functional body styling. The series has a 1,700 pound payload as well a shift-on the fly four-wheel drive.
February 13, 2013
Business
Xeriscape Can Include Plants From Every Continent
If the Cline Shale oil play is as big as Prudhoe Bay, water will become even dearer. Many more people will be moving here, wanting housing with some sort of attractive landscaping. The amount of water we have available for irrigating home landscapes will continue to shrink — some sort of public water restrictions will be in place forever.
February 13, 2013
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