Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 25—READING — Rod Burkard's 1945 Case Centennial moldboard 2-bottom, 14-inch plow sits out behind his shop, buried in a snow ...

Farmers may now be doing more than simply feeding the world’s population. If University researcher Raymond Allmaras is correct, they are also helping stall global warming. Allmaras’ research has shown ...

Many combinations of tillage methods are available for corn and soybean production. Currently much of the primary tillage is done in the fall. Deep tillage with the moldboard plow is still common, but ...

When John Deere picked up a broken bandsaw blade at an Illinois mill, brushed away the sawdust, and carted home the steel in 1837, he set agricultural revolution in motion via industrial scale ...

If you have an image in your head when you think “plow,” it’s probably a moldboard plow: a deep cutting edge that swoops up and out into a curved wing, the moldboard. As the plow moves forward, it ...

One of the most revolutionary ideas in agricultural history last week had the general approval of U.S. Department of Agriculture officials. The idea: that the plow is a great enemy of man. Chief ...

The hottest farming argument since the tractor first challenged the horse was started last summer by Farmer Edward Faulkner’s attack on the moldboard plow —Plowman’s Folly (TIME, July 26). Last week ...

More than 100,000 people gathered in 1952 to watch plowing contests and educational events sponsored by the Minnesota Soil Conservation Districts in Dodge County. The huge crowd also came to watch ...

Soybeans were nothing more than a minor forage crop in the 1940s. It didn’t take long for soybean growing and processing to become a multi-billion-dollar industry. Meanwhile, alfalfa’s importance has ...