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Byline: Tom J Bechman Can you make more money by planting corn and soybeans at higher speeds? Based on results of Beck's Practical Farm Research studies, Jason Gahimer believes you [...]

Akarambit is an agricultural tool, much like a small sickle. The blade is curved with the edge on the inside of the curve. Karambits also were used in times past [...]

Old-style manifolds often cause problems in anhydrous ammonia application and distribution. Successful Farming magazine and an agronomist present the results of a performance test on various ammonia applicators.

Strippers from England raised quite a few eyebrows around the world last year. They weren't ladies of the evening, but rather stripper-headers for combines to speed grain harvest. For countless [...]

The new planter meters are evaluated by the Farm Journal Field Tests. The Precision Meter from Precision Planting and the Singulator-Plus meter from Great Plains were compared on the basis of the yield results., Farm Journal Field Tests evaluate new planter meters The quest for greater accuracy, higher yields and planting efficiency keeps companies pushing for precision. As new planter seed meters enter the [...]

The usefulness of utility vehicles (UVs) on a farm due to their flexibility and ease of operation is described. In the past five years the UV market has nearly doubled as farmers find UVs more versatile than an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) that led the traditional farm equipment manufacturers to develop a wide range of UVs., Utility vehicles are being quickly drafted into farm service Rancher Perry Olson lives a hunter's dream. As owner of Minnesota Elk Company, near Windom, Olson is able to come within [...]

Byline: David Hest Jeff Heepke knew he was part of the next wave of precision agriculture when his cellphone rang as he planted corn with his new 16-row planter last [...]

Disc mowers and conditioners are replacing conventional hay harvesting and processing methods, comprising almost 45% of new sales. Their success in the market is attributed to their speed and mowing capacity. The machines can run up to 10 mph and can enhance mowing speeds by up to 30% to 50%.

Byline: Jodie Wehrspann Download the fuel efficiency ratings from the Nebraska Tractor Test Lab here (PDF). Tractor makers have spent the last few years designing engines that will meet the [...]

Byline: Jodie Wehrspann Case IH today made two formal announcements pertaining to its tractor line at the 2012 Commodity Classic in Nashville, TN. The first was in regard to newly [...]

Are the wife and kids bugging you for a list of things you'd like for Christmas? Are you stymied about what to buy your father, brother, best friend or hired [...]

Big corn yields take root one seed at a time. Getting that seed-and all of its friends in the row and in the field-deposited at the right place is critical. [...]

Except for a few minor tweaks, the profile of the new generation 125-hp (110 PTO horsepower) Fendt 712, the entry-level tractor in the 700 Series, appears almost identical to its [...]

South Dakota hay producer Gary Freeburg has a name for the traditional wheel rakes used by most producers during hay harvesting: ropers. He calls them ropers because they tend to [...]

Over a year has rolled by since the first Claas Targo telehandlers came off the production line at Saxham, Suffolk. Andy Moore visited a farm in Shropshire to see if […]

POWER and fuel savings of 20% are claimed for Amazone's Centaur 7.5m-wide cultivator/disc/roller combination when equipped with a depth control system guided by GPS. "Working depth of the cultivator tines […]

IF you are looking for a high-output mower, Kverneland's 6.2m (20ft) Taarup 4062C giant should almost certainly go on your shortlist. This machine can produce two swaths of grass of […]

The Brown Brush Monitor, a joint development of Brown Manufacturing and Dow AgroSciences, is a specialty mower that combines mowing and herbicide treatment in one pass. The Brown Brush Monitor [...]

Precision farming is not a perfect technology, but it is still far more advanced than any other method of tracking yield and application rates, according to Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute [...]

The Triangle's Embrex, an international agricultural biotechnology company, was ranked 62nd among the 200 best in America by Forbes magazine's Oct 30 issue. To make the list, companies had to [...]