For several years, Missy Bauer, Farm Journal Field Agronomist, has been in the market for a planter — specifically a corn planter she could call her own to use in plots. She focused her search on a ...

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 ...

David Hula says farmers are often puzzled when they talk to him about the condition of their corn planter that they just pulled out of the shed and want to take to the field. “A lot of people will say ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Iowa (AP) -- The old wooden planter was covered in red barn paint and the metal wheels were silver when it was up for auction in Norway. Parke Miller, a 4-H Club member from Williamsburg ...