All signs point to incentives for farmers to reduce tillage and grow cover crops. Some farmers will factor these incentives into their profit/loss statements, which will be a game changer. Through the ...

High costs of owning machinery are leading more farmers to hire out custom work on their operation. Kent Thiesse gives a look at how those custom farm costs look for 2025. Hiring custom farm work like ...

For decades, moldboard plows, disks and field cultivators, all horizontal tillage tools, have been the go-tos for fieldwork. That’s changing as fears about climate change come into focus. Sooner or ...

Due to the high cost of investment in farm machinery, an ever-increasing number of farm operators are hiring other farm operators to provide some or all of their machinery resources for their farm ...

RENVILLE - It doesn't matter whether she's grubbing around in farm fields or road ditches, or peering from the relative comfort of a tractor cab. The information that Jodi DeJong-Hughes of the ...

Wagon tours of Howell Living History Farm’s fall tillage operations will be offered to the public on Saturday, Sept. 17. Wagons will leave from the farmyard continuously from 10:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m ...

To achieve minimum tillage a good 4WD tractor, a subsoiler, a sprayer in good working condition and a planter that is set up correctly. [Joseph Muchiri, Standard] Faced with climate change challenges, ...

According to analysis from Teagasc, higher fertiliser and production costs, combined with a return to more average crop yields, are set to reduce profitability in the tillage sector.

A rare 203-acre, high-quality farm in West Waterford, newly on the market for 2026 with an asking price over €4 million, anticipates strong buyer competition.