T.J. Schulte, marketing manager with Trimble Navigation, discusses the new NextSwath end of row system with implement compensation. The technology allows operators to turn at the end of a row with the touch of a button, and draws a path around the corner that steers the tractor and implement to follow the same guidance line, reducing turning time and compaction.

UC Davis and University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers have described part of the network of genetic controls that allows a plant to grow for the first time.

With an increasing global population, a shrinking agricultural land base, climate change and extreme weather events, the nations of the world are focusing their collective attention to the primary resource essential to food production - the soil.

A team of researchers led by Carnegie Institution for Science's Anna Michalak and Yuntao Zhou has shown that the widespread drought in 2012 was associated with Lake Erie's largest dead zone since the mid-1980s.

Selecting the right tool for a job is essential. When that tool is as important and expensive as a farm implement, the same holds true - you want to buy farm equipment that does what you want; is strong, durable, and reliable; and is generally the best value for your money.

Des Moines Water Works will file a federal suit against three rural counties in northwest Iowa, an action that could trigger far-reaching effects on how states approach water quality regulation.

Research was conducted to evaluate producing muskmelon or summer squash in a strip-tillage system compared to a plasticulture system.

How much nitrogen does it take to produce 200 bushels of corn per acre?

The National Corn Growers Association named Mike Shuter from Frankton, Indiana, as this year's honoree for the NCGA's Good Steward Recognition Program during last week's 2015 Commodity Classic convention and trade show

Fall cover crops, such as clover, turnips and peas, can provide nutrient-rich winter forage and help lure hungry deer away from hay and other stored livestock feed.