The shift towards precision agriculture is promising a major boon for farmers and their businesses. Now self-driving tractors are adding to this smart farm effort, allowing farmers to find even more ...

A tractor on the O'Connor Family Farm in Blooming Prairie sits under the northern lights. Patrick O'Connor says he was unable to use his tractor after the solar storm responsible for the northern ...

MOULTRIE, Ga. (AP) - Darrell Williams spent part of his childhood behind a mule, plowing the fields on his family's tobacco farm. "It was hot," he said. "I had to follow that plow and that mule. There ...

It was a clear, sunny day as Nick Nemec’s New Holland tractor was chugging across his field with a planter in tow. It was the South Dakota farmer’s first real opportunity to get his corn in the ground ...

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