Let’s Make Hay!

Martha Stewart recently shared her lawncare tips for getting her lawn picture-perfect using her easy-to-operate Kubota zero-turn mowers. Among the tips, the most surprising is recycling and reusing grass clippings.

At Kubota, we know what it takes to perform in the most demanding of places – the construction worksite – where the work gets steel-toed tough on the daily. This is where the Kubota’s RTV-X Series does its best work from hauling crews to concrete.

Landscape maintenance professionals have many factors to consider, each of which has unique challenges in terms of types of grass, whether they need to bag, mulch or side discharge, and the size of the property and its terrain. Kubota’s commercial line of mowers, like the Z700 series, are designed to work with all types of grasses with baggers that can collect grass in the wettest of conditions.

Conducting comprehensive equipment maintenance during the fall and winter months is a common practice in the commercial landscape world. However, many landscape professionals often fall short on essential maintenance routines during the summer when business is at its peak. Making sure equipment is running properly from day-to-day can be the difference between loses and profits.

At Kubota we constantly hear that hiring and retaining quality landscape talent is one of biggest challenges facing employers in the industry. The seasonal nature of the business is one of the biggest factors for loosing talent between seasons, and it also requires professionals who are comfortable working in outdoor environments, on equipment, and often for long hours.

For those who did not grow up on tractors, the idea of hopping on and operating one can be intimidating. Lucky for all the newbies out there, Kubota’s sub- and compact tractors are designed for intuitive use and are easy to learn.

Kubota, and especially Kubota dealers, work closely with independent landscapers, and we often hear of innovative ideas to keep business thriving during the slower, winter months. For landscape professionals, the winter months bring an inevitable slow down.

Compact tractors are an excellent piece of equipment for renovations and builders. Kubota’s compact tractors can be outfitted with hundreds of different attachments to get almost any job done.

A compact tractor equipped with a performance-matched Food Plot Seeder is the ultimate machine for food plot management, and the first purchase you should consider when starting a food plot. Once you have that, you can also add other implements – and, there are a handful of others to help you efficiently and successfully maintain healthy crops and habitats on your hunting property.

It’s never too soon to plan for next spring. Although conditions can vary greatly from year to year, there’s always an opportunity to use learnings about how techniques, tools and technology affected this year’s crop, and then put those learnings into planning and practice for the following season.

In the late 1960s, the compact tractor segment was just emerging among its much larger predecessors. It was during this time that the first, little orange tractor from Kubota appeared in the U.S. marketplace, filling a much-needed void and quickly gaining fame in this new tractor segment.

Contractors nationwide are dealing with the consequences – for better or worse – of COVID-19. Here's what you told us.

Made for maneuvering, zero-turn mowers can help you make light work of larger landscapes. Here’s how to determine if a zero-turn mower is the right machine for you.

If you google “when was the skid steer invented?” various sources will tell you that the first skid steer prototype was an odd-looking three-wheeled loader.

If you’re a property owner with 1-3 acres of land to maintain, you know the value of a durable and reliable mower. Whether you’ve recently acquired land, or your old mower just isn’t cutting it these days, investing in a mower can turn the burden of lawn maintenance into something to look forward to. Here are some essential features to consider when buying a mower for your property.