Srinivasan brings extensive agricultural machinery industry experience

U.S. economic growth this year has lagged Deere & Co.'s expectations, the head of the world's largest maker of farm equipment said Monday.

The editors of Rural Lifestyle Dealer magazine are pleased to announce that Basic Software Systems, headquartered in Texarkana, Texas, is the exclusive sponsor of a new “Daily Email Update” service for registered users.

Agricultural Web Services (AWS), a division of Dominion Enterprises, has launched mobile web sites for agricultural equipment dealers.

John McCoy, of Orthman Manufacturing Inc. and President of the Farm Equipment Manufacturers Association, said the Association is among the many agricultural groups urging the Ways & Means House Committee to make permanent the five-year depreciation schedule for agriculture equipment.

AGCO Corporation (NYSE:AGCO), Your Agriculture Company, a worldwide manufacturer and distributor of agricultural equipment, announces that Connect Equipment Corporation has expanded its offering of AGCO brands as a provider of sales, parts and service for the full-line of Challenger ag equipment throughout central and parts of southwestern Ontario.

Celebrate 100 years and five generations of family-owned rural lifestyle farm equipment business, Louis Gelder & Sons Co., now on Dewey Street in Benton Township.

Doug Neufeld of Prairieland Partners Inc. in Hutchinson, Kan., has been elected to a 1-year term as rural lifestyle president of the SouthWestern Association Board of Directors.

U.S. housing starts rose to a six-month high in January and industrial rural lifestyle output increased solidly, pointing to an economic recovery that was taking a firm hold and respectable first-quarter growth.

Kubota has been designated an official rural lifestyle show supplier for World Ag Expo 2010.