Dick Schirado has created motion-activated watering systems for cattle and other gadgets to make farm/ranch life easier, but says the real challenge is convincing others to bring his work to market.

Dick Schirado has created motion-activated watering systems for cattle and other gadgets to make farm life easier. But he says the real challenge is convincing others to bring his work to market. Dick ...

The Wm. Chester Ruth Legacy Project, named for early-20th-century African American businessman, inventor and minister William Chester Ruth, took a group of historians, educators and others on a tour ...

Leo Kuntz, inventor of the muted tidal regulator, stands in front of an open tidegate at the mouth of McDonald’s Slough the north fork of the Nehalem River near the Oregon coast. (Don Jenkins/ Capital ...

CLAYTON -- Bill Skaife is betting 6-foot-high tomato plants floating among barges and Baja power boats will attract some attention. In January, the California vegetable farmer and inventor plans to ...

“Planning for Succession: Small Business or Farm” is the topic of the Inventors and Entrepreneurs Club meeting on Sept. 11. Attendees will learn what business succession planning is, the seven core ...

Milton Levine, co-inventor of the classic Ant Farm toy that gave millions of youngsters a sneak peak into the underground lives of insects, has died at age 97. If you purchase a product or register ...