Tim Hearden News Today

Representatives from Generac Power Systems were in Beaver Dam on Wednesday to celebrate the groundbreaking of its new factory.

Thomas Pettit, Generac’s chief operations officer, has officially resigned from his position with the company.

This week were exploring the latest trend in farm mechanization. Sure, row crop farmers ditched horses for iron decades ago, and even in specialty crop areas mechanization has come a long way. But when it comes to the actual harvest for those specialty crops, mechanization has been slow to arrive. Yet theres a new effort underway to ramp up the use of mechanization for more than corn and soybeans. Tim Hearden with Western Farm Press shares some insights on a new initiative in the West that has ...

Agriculture in the West is diverse, sometimes more than we think. But its also challenged by increasingly extreme weather including drought. Layer in a pandemic, and farmers and ranchers find they must think in new ways. We wanted to get a sense of what that means so we connected with two editors from Western Farm Press, Todd Fitchette and Tim Hearden. Fitchette starts off the podcast with a look at an interesting crop for California – coffee. Fitchette shares the story of one farmer who has ...