A record-breaking harvest of corn or soybeans is built on the foundation of a good stand. That concept is the focus for the 2025 Farm Journal Corn and Soybean College. Farm Journal Field Agronomist ...

Mother Nature looks to provide producers in Iowa an optimal planting window this week, as temps will hit the 80s and rain will hold off until the weekend. But those tides could change with potential ...

In the coming month, we will start to see corn planters, 10 to 30 feet wide, being pulled across the fields as farmers take on the task of getting seeds into soil in preparation for the fall harvest.

A pneumatic corn planter is now up for commercialization. The farm machine was designed and developed by agricultural engineers and researchers Ofero Capariño, Manolito Bulaong, Andres Tuates Jr., ...

CRETE — Brian Lorenz is a cheerful sort of guy, and he stayed that way right on through his estimate that he would spend at least $10,000 on seed alone in his first full day of corn planting Wednesday ...

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DAGUPAN City – A mechnical corn planter developed by a Department of Agriculture (DA) bureau is ready for commercialization. Called pneumatic corn planter, the farm machine was crafted by the Bureau ...

WINTHROP -- It's been a good spring for Randy Steffen. He's already planted 120 acres of corn and sold 15,000 bushels of what's going into the ground to Swiss Valley for a profitable $3 a bushel. Even ...

In the old days of corn planting, farmers sometimes slipped an empty seed sack over a fence post at the far end of the field, lined up the tractor muffler on the post, and used that means to achieve ...

BROOTEN, Minn. — A man pinned by a corn planter Tuesday evening at a farm site northeast of Brooten has died of his injuries. According to a news release issued Thursday, May 1, by the Stearns County ...