agriculture Tag

New app allows you to adjust your Deere from your desk

By: Justin Roberts  Nov 26, 2018 John Deere, as ever, is pressing ahead with the application of digital technology to daily farm operations. Its latest endeavour is known as ‘MyOperations’ and comes as a free app for smartphones. This download allows users to see machine and field data remotely –...

Yield contest champs: How’d they do that again?

BALTIC, S.D. — Meet Eric Watson, a Guinness World Record holder for winter wheat yield. Watson achieved a whopping 247 bushels per acre (16.79 metric tons per hectare), and was one of more than 20 national and international yield winners attending the Ag PhD field day...

The History of Corn

It is now growing season across the Corn Belt of the United States. Seeds that have just been sown will, with the right mixture of sunshine and rain, be knee-high plants by the Fourth of July and tall stalks with ears ripe for picking by...

Corn Warriors featured at Hefty Field Day

PRINCETON — More than 500 farmers and agribusiness representatives from this part of the Midwest gathered Monday for the first annual Field Day event hosted by Hefty Seed Company — Princeton. The gathering was planned to take place at the Denton farm on Route 26, just...