Fully-electric, autonomous farm equipment manufacturer Monarch Tractor has announced that the company, alongside its group partners have been awarded a grant of $3 million from the California Energy ...

Battery-powered hand tools now own the fix-it market. Yard equipment has its cell sights set on suburbia. Farm country, however, requires a much higher threshold of reliability. That isn’t slowing ...

An impact wrench rattles another bolt home as Rick Rottinghaus reaches for the next part in this year’s planter upgrades. Time is running out before wheels need to be turning on his family’s Waterloo, ...

Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., views an electric Monarch Tractor on Capitol Hill. Some electric tractors have hit the U.S. market, but it's not clear which federal incentive will be available to ...

However, there’s still a lot to be explored when it comes to electric farm equipment, something a company representative expects will change. “I think alternative power sources [are] going to be ...

From the development of rudimentary tools to today’s cutting-edge machinery, technological innovation in agriculture has steadily improved the efficiency of food and livestock production. Tools such ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. — In the soft dirt of an indoor horseback riding ring last month, a group of farmers got ready to test drive a new piece of equipment: an electric tractor. As they took turns ...

Heavy-duty trucking and farming all seem to be on the way to becoming a lot cleaner. New technologies and new interest in electric trucks, farm equipment and other heavy-duty battery-electric-powered ...

Robert Wallace was puzzled when the first electric tractor was delivered to his home in rural Dufur, Oregon, about 75 miles east of Portland. Wallace, an expert on rural energy projects, knows his way ...

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When I recently took a trip to China to see the world of electric micromobility, I was greeted with a wide range of personal electric vehicles. From e-bikes to e-scooters and even e-dirt bikes, I saw ...

SALISBURY — On Global Environment Day (June 6), the nonprofit Happy Roots experienced a surge of energy — literally and figuratively — as 33 volunteers from Schneider Electric rolled up their sleeves ...