Among the high-tech agricultural equipment featured at this year’s annual farm show held in Decatur, Illinois, this fall included gear that allowed farmers to monitor the quality of their stored grain via their smartphone and a high-powered grain vacuum. Farmers from all over the Midwest and throughout the US gathered in September for the 2015 … Read more
Here is a special sneak preview of some of the stories you will find coming soon on the Bahrns blog: Every business has garbage cans. But garbage cans need to be cleaned and sanitized periodically to prevent contamination. We’ll tell you how often you need to clean your trash cans and how to do it … Read more
The truck driver shortage has gotten so dire that a trucking company in Utah has installed 100 channels of satellite TV in its fleet of trucks in order to attract new drivers. The trucking industry currently is undergoing an unprecedented shortage in drivers. Some blame the low pay, long hours, and the requirement that truckers … Read more
Just hours before the funding for the nation’s highway and infrastructure was set to expire, President Barack Obama on Friday signed a new five-year, $305 billion transportation bill. The new law calls for the federal government to spend $205 billion on highway projects and $48 billion on transit projects between now and 2020. The money … Read more
Here is a special sneak preview of some of the stories you will find coming up soon on the Bahrns blog: A Utah trucking firm has come up with a novel way of attracting new drivers: Offering on board satellite TV in all of their truck cab. We’ll tell you how it works and whether … Read more
Amazon recently introduced a new service that automatically reorders and delivers products related to common household devices, such as clothes washers, coffee makers, and even dog food dispensers. The Amazon Dash Replenishment Service (DRS) currently can be connected to a handful of devices that monitor usage of particular products then automatically reorders them through Amazon … Read more
Companies have a vested interest in knowing where cargo containers filled with their products or supplies are located at any given time. But given the fact that ships carrying thousands of cargo containers are constantly circling the globe, it’s often difficult to know exactly where each particular container is located … until now, that is. … Read more
Lake Nicaragua — a massive pool of pristine water — sits in the middle of a primordial jungle. Covering more than 3,100 square miles in the center of Nicaragua, the lake is the primary source of fresh water for much of Central America. The enormous jungle lake is also the center of a battle of … Read more
Here is a special sneak preview of some of the stories you will find this week on the Bahrns blog: You’ve probably heard of the Panama Canal, but what about the Nicaraguan Canal? The strange story of this proposed rival includes Russian expansion, a Chinese billionaire, a former Sandinista leader, and the industrialization of Central … Read more
Managers at the German staircase company Krieger Treppen GmbH had a problem. Workers were unable to lift the wooden planks weighing up to 353 pounds in order to carve them into staircase steps. So the company turned to the North Carolina-based FIPA Inc. to design, build and install a custom material handling solution that allowed … Read more
