If you’ve recently done any driving through the rural parts of our area, you’ve probably seen tractors pulling planters down beautiful rows of prepared soil. That’s because it’s corn planting time.

Farming is on track nationally, but in the upper Midwest, progress has been slow. Iowa farmers are ahead, but planting has been slow in South Dakota and Minnesota and nonexistent in North Dakota. At ...

LAKE BENTON, Minn. (AP) — With traces of winter’s unusually heavy snow still lingering but a warm sun finally shining, farmers were out dawn to dusk in early May on their tractors, planting corn and ...

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The 8R/8RX series delivers up to 540 HP for added power and maneuverability. New planter enhancements improve seed placement ...

A small percentage of corn and soybean planting remains after a busy week in the fields. The U.S.D.A. report shows that 98% of the corn crop is in the ground. That’s three days ahead of the five-year ...

ST. LOUIS -- U.S. farmers, who could only watch helplessly this spring as storm after storm left their fields a muddy mess, took to their tractors en masse last week and planted a record amount of ...