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 ...

Discover how Charles Deere and Alva Mansur revolutionized 19th-century farming with the Deere Rotary Adjustable Corn Planter, a breakthrough ...

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 ...

Want to see 14 acres of John Deere green? Head to Waterloo. The Amazing Fall Fun Corn Maze and Pumpkin Patch on C.R. 43 in Waterloo will feature the John Deere tractor in its 14-acre corn maze this ...

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.