Charges alleging several negligent acts have been leveled against a pickup truck driver who was pulling a chisel plow when it sliced through a minivan heading the other way on a rural Anoka County ...

ST. ANSGAR, Iowa — Strip-tillage saves time, money and soil, but it isn’t a one size fits all system, says Mahdi Al-Kaisi, Iowa State University Extension soil management specialist. He participated ...

WASECA, Minn. -- Farming practices contribute to pollution in the Minnesota River Watershed, but perhaps not in obvious ways. The Minnesota River is one of the most polluted rivers in the nation and ...

Many combinations of tillage methods are available for corn and soybean production. Currently much of the primary tillage is done in the fall. Deep tillage with the moldboard plow is still common, but ...

The effect of different levels of tillage and weed management on population, distribution, and germination of weed seed was evaluated in three tillage systems at Arlington and Hancock, WI, in 1989 and ...

Farmers wanting to hang onto the soil moisture in their fields are struggling to address compaction and ruts where there has ...

FARWELL, Minn. — A 58-year-old western Minnesota farmer died in a farming accident over the weekend. On Sunday at 7:42 a.m., the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office received a call reporting a farm ...

Editor’s Note: This article, which is entirely fictitious, is offered for all those who enjoy one of rural America’s favorite pastimes—watching the neighbor’s farm. We descend on the field across the ...

Crumbaughs Among Handful of Michigan Growers Employing Zone Till in Sugarbeets Stale seedbeds — wherein fields are tilled in the fall and then left untouched the following spring until the planter ...

Walking around the exhibits at Farmfest last week, I had a "Wait, what?" moment. Amid its usual collection of giant John Deere combines and tractors, farm dealer Kibble Equipment had an ordinary plow ...

An updated news release from the sheriff's office says an anonymous tip received less than an hour after the initial release led investigators to a scrap yard in Waverly Township. Employees there said ...

Serioun attention should be given to potential weed, insect, and fertility problems in the summer and fall before the first crop on CRP acreage. Close attention must be given to all aspects of ...