Productive farms must work as a team. Each employee plays a role on the team, whether he or she operates heavy equipment or manages finances from behind a desk. The team should be built on a solid foundation of communication, trust and accountability. The question is...

Nothing about cutting costs is easy, as farmers are well aware. They've been on a quest for the past few years to find the best deals on seed, fertilizer and other variable expenses. Lowering input costs as much as possible without sacrificing yield provided the best...

In mid-August 2018, Bayer's purchase of Monsanto was complete after lengthy negotiations, much regulatory scrutiny and extensive mandatory spin-offs. The Progressive Farmer editors were offered a chance to sit down with some of the new leadership one day after the big...

Q: I have a John Deere 5085E tractor with a front-wheel drive. It has a hub on the front wheels that seems to have an oil plug in the end. How do I check the oil in that housing, and should the oil be changed? The hub rotates with the wheels.

Hi. My name is Meredith, and I have a confession to make: I'm addicted to hats (and coffee and dry shampoo, but for the sake of this article, I'm sticking to hats).

Palmer amaranth may be native to the Southeast, but it has quickly shown it can be extremely adaptable. The weed was most recently found in North Dakota.

While preparing for a recent talk on change management, I read William Bridges's "Managing Transitions," a helpful book containing both conceptual models and practical strategies for thinking about family and business transitions. While we often talk about transitions in the...