This week’s Pete’s “Pick of the Week” is a 20-plus-year-old tractor that came in just south of $150,000, but you can argue the buyer actually secured a nice bargain when you put it in the context of ...

The gaggle of old geezers who gather every day to gab, gossip, and gripe over coffee and iced tea — of which I am a member in good standing — represent a wide diversity of life experiences and varying ...

The tractor maker said that sales were down and that higher metal tariffs would cost it $600 million, while American farmers face dwindling overseas demand for some crops. By Kevin Draper Josh Enlow ...

We had one more scare in the spring of 1963. Mother got a lump on a breast. Need to pause and explain here for a minute. In those days, people didn’t talk about body parts like they do today. At the ...

I’m putting the latest John Deere planter through its paces—seeing how it handles the fields and what makes it stand out this season. Unemployment, inflation and GDP growth will be worse this year ...

I thought about it last week as I dropped the two-bottom plow into our garden plot. Even though I have left the fertile cornfields of Iowa, corn is still with me and will be until the day I depart ...

DUBUQUE, Iowa (KWWL) -- Everything green and yellow came to life for two-year-old Everett Redman on Friday at John Deere. In the middle of his toughest days as he battles a brain tumor, this visit ...

Round, round, round we go. When will we stop replanting, nobody knows. It's just been one of those seasons around here where emergence issues due to heavy rains just keep arising the more you look ...

John Deere is offering a new 1725C CCS 12-row/30 stack-fold planter along with four 1725C non-CCS planters that include 12-row/30, 12-row 36/38, 12-row 38/40 or 16-row/30 configurations. Each 1725C ...

"Well, now it's up to God, the weather and the markets." Those were the words spoken by my dad as he pulled up the two row corn planter at the end of the field that day so many years ago. He had just ...

The article by Sam Moore in the October 2022 issue of Farm Collector about check-row corn planting brought back many memories. I grew up in west central Illinois and with the 20- to 40-acre flat ...