In an effort to provide customers with a wider, more advanced air drill for no-till production systems, John Deere is introducing two larger sizes of the 1890 no-till air drill for 2011.

Some Ohio wheat growers are thinking about planting wheat after corn to avoid some of the late planting issues we have had to deal with over the past few years.

African farmers and American producers have different motivations and face unique challenges, but they are crucial to global food security and negatively affected by misinformation and innuendo that shape the current debates on how to feed the future.

AGCO Application Equipment is rolling out five new RoGator high-clearance applicators for 2011 featuring a proven drive system for higher levels of performance and reliability in the field.

A machine that can inject dry poultry litter and composted cattle manure below the soil surface in pastures and no-till fields is on order from a research coalition across five Chesapeake Bay states: Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania and New York. There are currently no machines on the market that can do this.

Strip-till advocates say deep-banding fertilizer in strips benefits corn, while others say the benefits come from tilling the strip and not fertilizer placement. Ontario researchers studied fall strip-till vs. applying starter fertilizer with a corn planter.

Hemisphere's new G100 Integrated Auto-Steer features 1-step installation, 12-channel parallel tracking and a simple user interface.

RTK makes strip-tilling work well, strip-till shines during drought and deep banding phosphate and potash cane work if managed properly.

A new way to make topographic maps could help farmers use variable-rate fertilizer application to maximize returns, says James McKinion, a USDA scientist.

Keeping agriculture environmentally sustainable while improving productivity is a growing challenge, and a new report shows that agricultural biotechnology is a key tool in overcoming it.