Spring is a good time to try new tools and equipment, especially if those tools can boost productivity while making farm work ...
From GPS-guided fertilizer spreaders to AI-powered planting systems, precision agriculture equipment is transforming how farmers work. These innovations boost yields, cut waste, and protect the ...
First, the bad news: We’ve lost millions of tons of soil from croplands in the United States annually for the past 20 years due to water and wind erosion. The rate of erosion skyrockets the more soil ...
How I grew $85,000 of food with just 7 hand tools… no tractors, no expensive agricultural machinery… just smart systems. In ...
When Ann Adams and Liz Brensinger started a small heirloom vegetable farm in the early 1990s, they called their new venture Green Heron Farms, after the birds that nested in a copse of trees on their ...
With a well-equipped toolbox, building a fence becomes a much easier job. Gloves will protect your hands from sharp fence wire edges and cushion them as you handle rough wood and metal. Choose leather ...
For three years, Nathanael Gonzales-Siemens drove up California’s coast for 14 hours every month for a routine task: milling his grain into flour. “I was literally not able to find a flour mill at my ...
DENVER – On Colorado’s northeastern plains, where the pencil-straight horizon divides golden fields and blue sky, a farmer named Danny Wood scrambles to plant and harvest proso millet, dryland corn ...
Farming equipment is traditionally designed to be used by men. That presents a problem for the increasing number of women across the country who are entering the agriculture workforce. Men have long ...