An inventive Norfolk farmer has solved a machinery quandary by designing his own home-built precision seed planter – made using 3D-printed plastic parts. Many farmers are inherent tinkerers and ...

A cast-design row unit announced this week will become standard on all White Planters models, AGCO has announced. Composed of three components—70% fewer parts than in past iterations—the unit includes ...

Staying productive in the field is key to getting ahead of a potentially unpredictable planting season, says David Brennan, Case IH planter marketing manager. With that in mind, Case IH is expanding ...

Every farmer needs machines that make work easier, which include chaff-cutters, seeders, planters, balers, rippers and tractors. For the small farmer, the major challenge when it comes to acquiring ...

Developed and released by US seeding and cultivation specialists Great Plains Manufacturing in 2012, the planters will be arriving in Australia over the next 12 months in widths up to 18 metres. PFG ...

The tediously slow job that used to be drilling maize is being transformed by a new generation of machines that work with precision at much faster speeds. Peter Hill reports High-tech precision ...

A new sowing unit, designed to handle precision planting of large-seeded crops such as maize, beans and peas, should bring ...

Planting lettuce seedlings in the field. Photo by Lominda Afedraru. Though conditions in UK and Uganda are very different. Large scale commercial farming is faced with a similar challenge: How to ...