In recent years, small compact tractors from manufacturers such as Kubota have become very popular with private homeowners.
In the mid-1980s Kubota, looking for new opportunities, provided funding for Ardent Computer Corporation, an American company that produced graphics minicomputers based on the MIPS architecture.
He was famed in the surrounding precincts for using Kubota field tiller and mechanized farming methods for growing rice.
With the demise of the Gildersome works the company became a sales and service organisation for construction plant and machinery e.g. Ford, Barford, Kubota.
Kubota and his family were interned at Camp Minidoka in Idaho during the early days of World War II.
The Kubotan keychain (as designed and sold by Kubota) is a hard high-impact plastic rod, usually made from Lexan, about 5.5 inches (14 cm) long and 9/16 0.56 inch (1.5 cm) in diameter.
In May 2013, Kubota released the dual single "Bring me up!/My Cherie Amour".