An inventive Norfolk farmer has solved a machinery quandary by designing his own home-built precision seed planter – made using 3D-printed plastic parts. Many farmers are inherent tinkerers and ...

Seed choice is part of the picture when it comes to spring emergence, but farmers know that it’s just as much, if not more, about how neatly that seed gets tucked in the ground That may play into why ...

Every farmer needs machines that make work easier, which include chaff-cutters, seeders, planters, balers, rippers and tractors. For the small farmer, the major challenge when it comes to acquiring ...

Replacing a seed plate on the Earthway planter is no sweat. Driving country roads in March or maybe April, you're likely to see a few of these in use for family vegetable gardens. The Stand 'n Plant ...

Developed and released by US seeding and cultivation specialists Great Plains Manufacturing in 2012, the planters will be arriving in Australia over the next 12 months in widths up to 18 metres. PFG ...

The tediously slow job that used to be drilling maize is being transformed by a new generation of machines that work with precision at much faster speeds. Peter Hill reports High-tech precision ...

Planting and tillage manufacturer, Flexi-Coil have added a precision disc seeder to its stable, hoping to appeal to the zero and minimum till market.