John Deere has announced model year 2023 updates for its planters that include a new configuration for the 1725C 16R30 planter; and an enhanced frame design for existing 1725C 12R36/38 and 12R38/40 ...

A prototype 48-row planter is running in our territory this spring. I spent a day or two last week getting it ready for the field. Aside from being tired and leg-weary from simply walking back and ...

As his red tractor crawled across a field in early May, trailing a 40-foot-wide, 16-row planter dropping corn seeds every 5 to 6 inches, Bret Davis talked about the ground. It is featureless to the ...

Bert Huftalin will be spending money to make money this spring, crisscrossing his fields on a massive new tractor dragging a 16-row planter to sow the latest high-tech seed. Altogether, the new gear ...

Proper winter maintenance of your no-till planter ensures accurate seed placement and emergence, leading to better stands and ...

Kinze Manufacturing is launching two planter models for 2024 featuring the new 5000 Series row unit. The changes and updates are designed to reduce daily maintenance while increasing longevity, ...

URBANA, Ill. -- Planter size has a significant impact on per acre costs, according to a University of Illinois Extension study examining planter costs with different farm sizes. "Planting more hours ...

Farmer Ken Nolting of Worthington stops his 16-row planter and hurries to adjust the seed depth before entering less sandy soil Monday in a field south of Worthington. Nolting planned 70 acres of ...

SALINA, Kan. — A Kansas-based agriculture equipment company says twin-row planting will be a revolution that breaks crop yield barriers. "I really feel that we’re making history here in the ag world," ...