Tesla Announces $5B “Gigafactory”

Tesla is making the news again with the announcement of its $5 billion (yes, that’s billion with a ‘B’) gigafactory right here in the United States. What is the gigafactory, exactly? Well, to explain, we need to backtrack a moment. Tesla makes a lot of cars. And all of their cars are electric. Except, the […]

President Obama Announces Two New Manufacturing Hubs

If there were one thing you could do to create to kickstart the ongoing education and construction of manufacturing–how it works or how helpful it is to society–what would you create? Where would you create it? For President Obama, the answer to that question is a series of manufacturing institutes. In 2013, President Obama announced […]

Facing a Slow Year for U.S. Farms, Equipment Manufacturing Could Slow Down in 2014

It’s going to be a slow year for United States farms, which could potentially mean a slow year for farm equipment manufacturers. Net agriculture income was projected to slip twenty-seven percent this year–the lowest since 2010. Drops in federal subsidies and prices for soybeans and corn are squeezing the farmers for all they’re worth. According […]