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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) An Arizona state trooper shot and wounded a man driving a big rig the wrong way on a highway after bolting from a traffic stop and commercial vehicle inspection, officials said. The state Department of Public Safety said the trooper on an Interstate 40 overpass near Flagstaff shot the trucker with a rifle Friday because the man's "dangerous actions" imperiled other drivers and pursuing troopers. The statement said the wounded man was hospitalized and expected to

My team at the University of Illinois just developed the first high-resolution map of the U.S. food supply chain. Our map is a comprehensive snapshot of all food flows between counties in the U.S.grains, fruits and vegetables, animal feed, and processed food items.

ATLANTA, Ill. This harvest season will be memorable for a lot of farmers for various reasons, but especially for Central Illinois farmer Ronnie Yeast. At age 83, he has decided that like it or not, it is time to retire. The family has been after me to hang it up, he said, and he finally decided to listen.

Roll on highway, roll on along/ Roll on daddy till you get back home/ Roll on family, roll on crew/ Roll on momma like I asked you to do/ And roll on eighteen-wheeler roll on. Those lyrics are from a song recorded by the group Alabama in 1984. The song was played at the graveside service of my cousin Lawrence Lepley, who died at age 62 on Sunday and was buried at White Oak Cemetery near Meyersdale on Thursday. While I knew truckers shared a bond, I never realized just how close-

On Oct. 9, Greg Rush was harvesting a field of soybeans on the flat terrain common to the northern portion of Boone County. The soybean field was just outside of the small town of Sturgeon, and Rushs grain truck with his name painted on the door was parked at the edge of the field. His combine was visible from far away as it traversed back and forth across the field of soybeans, gradually providing the results from the growing season in central Missouri.

The biggest hurdle for farmers who are transitioning to organic crop production is timing. USDA requires a three-year transition period for farmers to certify their land as organic, which is essentially working and spending money for three years without a paycheck.

Daimler AG, Volvo AB and other truck makers should be ordered to pay 867 million euro ($965 million) over a price-fixing cartel, according to lawyers in Germany for companies that were overcharged. The case was brought by Financialright GmbH on behalf of more than 3,200 companies that say they paid too much for their trucks because prices were fixed. Lawyers for the truck makers argued that the suit should be dismissed because of the way Financialright acquired the claims. After two hours of

We are doing our biggest giveaway yet!! Our friends over at Cleveland Vibrator sent us one of their trailer vibrators and we want to give it away to one lucky and special trucker!! Send us an email or message with your testimony and why you need this vibrator! We will give it away before Thanksgiving!!

Student designs of future vocational trucks may contain some long-term value for the Western Star Truck Sales subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA). Some ideas from a collaboration between the truck maker and the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California, include: A plow that inhales snow and turns it into vapor. While plows clear surfaces, they also throw snow, ice and rock and create walls of snow along the side of the road.

Freeze damage this past weekend likely impacted corn and soybeans differently, but analysts believe true yield reports will not be available until January

Hamburg, Iowa is a river town located in the Southwest corner of the state. It is a place which has seen a lot of flooding, after levees breached along the Missouri River earlier in the year. We have to get started, says Jeff Jorgenson, a Sidney, Iowa farmer. All of the sudden it will be the first of November before we know it. He hasnt been at harvest too long.

The Iowa Department of Transportation is raising some sections of Interstate 29 north of Council Bluffs to keep traffic moving even when the Missouri River is at flood stage.

Washington The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is seeking public comment as it considers a trucking industry petition to preempt Washington states meal and rest break rules for commercial motor vehicle drivers, less than a year after granting a similar request in California. According to a notice published in the Oct. 9 Federal Register, Washingtons rules as the preempted California regulations did call for at least 30 minutes of off-duty meal

California air regulators want to force a wave of cleaner trucks onto the road by requiring that half of all medium and heavy trucks sales be for zero-emission vehicles by 2030. If adopted by the California Air Resources Board, the regulation would be the first of its kind in the nation.

Paragon Processing, the largest hemp processing and climate-controlled storage facility currently operating in the U.S., is offering a much-needed solution to farmers, who are dealing with the crisis of losing their hemp crop due to their inability to properly dry the harvest. Due to the current demand for drying services, over the next few weeks, Paragon Processing is adding 10,000 pounds of wet weight per hour of drying to its current 3,000-4,000 pounds of wet weight per hour drying capabil

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Thats the famous beginning of Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities. It could just as well be the beginning of the tale of two crops in 2019, first the one we expected when the year began. Then there was the crop we expected in June, when very little was planted and it looked like it would be a disaster. Well, we did lose 20 million acres (give or take a few million) to prevented planting. But all of a sudden, it