Perfectly straight. Precise depth. Well-turned with a round back. In a nutshell, that's how judges describe what they're looking for from contestants at the National Ploughing Championships.

Peter Fleming looks for crops that can maximize profits even in drought. That's one reason the North Carolina grower turned to sorghum, a crop University of Tennessee crop marketing specialist Aaron Smith calls "this ancient grain."

In Colorado's San Luis Valley, Brian Neufeld considers it a victory to save even 1 inch of irrigation water. The aquifer feeding his wells normally recharges relatively fast, but it has declined during the extreme drought of recent years. Now, area farmers are trying to...

Farmland values continue to shrug at lower grain prices. Even in wheat country, the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City reported relatively stable farmland values for the fourth quarter 2017 in the ag-centric district covering Colorado, Kansas, western Missouri, Nebraska...

Modern variable-rate technology (VRT) gives growers the ability to apply nutrients according to prescriptions determined by soil samples. However, there is an ongoing conversation among agronomists about how well correlated sampling methods are to actual phosphorus (P...

Dave Albin has a strong motivation to ensure his family's six-generation Illinois farm continues for decades to come. In doing so, he tries to make the farm as productive as possible for their operation as well as their landowners.

You have likely heard stories about Johnny Appleseed, a character based on a real nurseryman named John Chapman. Chapman introduced apples to a large part of the Midwest and northeastern U.S., and Ontario in the early 1800s. Jim Willis is taking a similar approach for...