As spring approaches, it is time to pull out the planter and prep it for fieldwork. During the 2009 National Farm Machinery Show, planters were a hot topic and definitely a show favorite. Check out ...

An AgWeb.com Farm Equipment Special John Deere has introduced its DB60 Split-Row planter, offering configuration flexibility to plant 47 rows in 15-inch spacings, or 24 rows in 30 inch spacings. “This ...

PLAINFIELD - Ample moisture and soil temperatures at or slightly above 60 degrees: Perfect. Lee Peters couldn't ask for a better start to spring planting on Monday. Skillfully maneuvering his 12-row ...

In the old days of corn planting, farmers sometimes slipped an empty seed sack over a fence post at the far end of the field, lined up the tractor muffler on the post, and used that means to achieve ...

John Deere is taking the Internet of Things out into the field by developing new technologies and embracing existing ones to boost the efficiency of prepping, planting, feeding and harvesting with the ...

In the coming month, we will start to see corn planters, 10 to 30 feet wide, being pulled across the fields as farmers take on the task of getting seeds into soil in preparation for the fall harvest.