A few special tools can dramatically speed in-the-field repairs to combines and harvest equipment, including: Super-deep-well sockets can slide over extra-long belt tensioner bolts. Take a standard ...

Tractors and combine harvesters are frequently operated on difficult terrain. Crops such as canola and corn grow at different densities; the field is sometimes muddy and is rocky at other times; and ...

Kinze is celebrating its 50 years in manufacturing grain carts and introducing the redesigned Harvest Commander grain cart lineup. The first Kinze grain cart was introduced in 1971 when the company’s ...

An innovative project to develop a networked system with sensors that would enable harvest machinery to automatically recognize its surroundings and react to changes was started in July 2014 and ran ...

Iowa State University researchers are developing front and rear attachments that allow a conventional combine to harvest corn stover (the stalks, cobs and leaves) as well as grain. The stover could be ...

HANCOCK COUNTY — October is a favorite month of the year for many, particularly in rural counties where Fall is at the forefront. While most folks are interested in getting out to travel to various ...

AMES, Iowa — Three Nebraska farmer-inventors have developed equipment to harvest corn cobs and other biomass that will be sought for cellulosic ethanol production. The inventions were described at ...

Crops aren't the only thing farmers are harvesting these days. Some of them are digging up software code. Producers in particularly remote areas have taken to hacking the computer software on their ...

Whatever else they might have done on the Saturday morning of a holiday weekend, a crew of volunteers arrived July 2 at the field farmed by Mark Smith on Kelly Road in Burr Oak. They spanned all ages ...