ENDICOTT – Wheat farmer Marv Hergert died last month of cancer. On Monday, his friends drove 21 combines to harvest Hergert’s 400 acres in about three hours. “It was magnificent,” said June Rowland, ...
This summer I packed up my family and drove over the mountains and over the prairie to the farm for harvest. Returning to western Kansas where my great-grandparents homesteaded, my mother's parents ...
The South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station and South Dakota State Foundation Seed Stocks Division have released a new wheat variety to seed producers. The new hard red winter line will be ...
A trio of updates from K-State Agronomy provides guidance for producers as they begin to harvest this year’s wheat crop and plan for post-harvest treatments and crop rotations. Considerations when ...
Dust is billowing out behind combines as northeast North Dakota and northwest Minnesota farmers feverishly work to get their spring wheat crop harvested. In Grand Forks County, farmers have finished ...
Two new state-of-the art plot combines will help Washington State University wheat breeders improve their efficiency as they harvest their test plots. The Washington Grain Commission provided nearly ...
A few years ago, I ran a series of articles on understanding agriculture, designed for anyone in the general public who had an interest in understanding more about various agricultural crops and ...
SALINE COUNTY, Ill. -- Firefighters responded to a combine and wheat field on fire in Saline County Monday afternoon. Crews went out to the scene along Rocky Branch Road where they said a combine ...
Across the Kansas plain great puffs of whitish dust erupted into the shimmering heat. Inside these clouds the ponderous combines roared and clanked, their reel slats flashing as they flailed through ...