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New Holland is a global full-line agricultural machinery manufacturer founded in New Holland, Pennsylvania, and now based in Turin, Italy.New Holland's products include tractors, combine harvesters, balers, forage harvesters, self-propelled sprayers, haying tools, seeding equipment, hobby tractors, utility vehicles and implements, and grape harvesters.
New Holland is a village in Logan County, Illinois, United States. The population was 269 at the 2010 census, down from 318 in 2000. The village start up and growth is highly influenced by the Diffendefer family, which was the first family to settle in the location we call New Holland today. [3] The post office was established in 1802. [4]
The greater prairie-chicken or pinnated grouse (Tympanuchus cupido), sometimes called a boomer, [2] is a large bird in the grouse family. This North American species was once abundant, but has become extremely rare and extirpated over much of its range due to habitat loss . [ 2 ]
The Bloomer Line is owned by Alliance Grain Company, which owns the eight grain elevators served by the railroad. It is primarily a grain transporter, shipping carloads of corn, soybeans and wheat from these locations to the connecting railroads, but also serves several other industries, including a soybean processing plant in Gibson City and a fertilizer distribution facility in Colfax.
The John Deere Model GP tractor was a two-plow, and later a three-plow row-crop tractor produced by John Deere from 1928 to 1935. Initially called the John Deere Model C, the name was changed to GP as a result of difficulties in distinguishing between the Model C and Model D over the telephones of the time.
New Holland-Middletown Elementary School District 88 (NH-M) is an elementary and middle school district headquartered in Middletown, Illinois. The district is mostly in Logan County, where it includes Middletown and New Holland. [2] The school district extends into Mason and Menard counties. [3] [4]
James Harvey "Boomer" Grigsby (born November 15, 1981) is an American former professional football player who was a fullback in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Illinois State Redbirds , and was selected by the Kansas City Chiefs in the fifth round of the 2005 NFL draft .
Boskydell sandstone was valued for its warm, reddish-brown color, and was used in the construction of several prominent buildings in Illinois, including: the foundation of the Southern Illinois University in nearby Carbondale; a Methodist church in Murphysboro; the First Presbyterian Church in Carbondale; and the former First Baptist Church of ...