...Right now they are importing 400 million pounds from the Midwest," Watson said.The visitors' companies include equipment makers, seed producers and firms involved in consulting, milking and even livestock identification tag systems."This...

...companies are up almost 16 percent, making them the best performers in the S&P 500.Lufkin Industries, an oilfield equipment maker, surged $24.03, or 38 percent, to $87.96 after General Electric Co. agreed to buy the company for $3 billion...

...wanted to see results quickly."The Head Health Initiative described Monday, which also includes sports apparel and equipment maker Under Armour, involves a four-year, $40 million research and development program to find ways to detect and...

GolfMasters champ, Ping aid hospitalMasters Tournament champion Bubba Watson and golf equipment maker Ping presented $250,000 to the Phoenix Children's Hospital on Thursday for use in the construction of Arizona's first pediatric...

...McDonald's and AT&T. The world's largest producer of aluminum, Alcoa, and Caterpillar, the construction equipment maker, were among the hardest-hit Dow stocks, with declines of about 3 percent each. Materials and industrial companies...

...company lost $370 million, mainly because it refinanced government bailout loans.In other newsMEDICAL AND industrial equipment maker Roper Industries Inc. is buying hospital software company Sunquest Information Systems Inc. for approximately...

...demand for commodities and machines that power growth.Fearing that outcome, traders pushed the stocks of heavy equipment maker Caterpillar and aluminum company Alcoa to among the biggest declines of the 30 companies that make up the Dow.The euro...

The world's largest farm equipment maker said fiscal second-quarter net income rose to $1 billion.

...peaks earlier this year.Rising values and hefty demand in emerging markets have helped buoy earnings for other farm equipment makers recently.Last month, Deere rival Agco Corp posted stronger-than-expected third-quarter results and raised...

...major step toward transparency, the issue she ran on in 2010.Caterpillar plant in Sumter to expandPEORIA, ILL. - Equipment maker Caterpillar Inc. plans to spend $20 million to expand one of its South Carolina manufacturing plants to handle growing...