We imagine a farm to be a place where people celebrate simplicity and get back to the land, and why not? Most of our food is sold to us that way. But farms are big business, and they’re more high-tech ...
Scott Weishaar surveys the long row of biomass harvest equipment ready for demonstration and cracks a smile. “The equipment companies have stepped up to the plate,” says Weishaar, vice president of ...
Three Amish men, sitting in a small office at the Gordonville Fire Company, hold separate conversations with three Plain Sect farmers. Sheets and sheets of white paper -- each covered with names and ...
The latest report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture forecasts corn production will be up nearly 13 percent from a year ...
SCHALLER, Iowa -- Perched 10 feet off the ground in an enclosed cab, LaRae Mauser carefully steered the green John Deere combine toward the golden rows of corn plants. Holding the wheel with one hand, ...