Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. May 1—PLYMOUTH TOWNSHIP — An open piece of farm land became a place for draft horses to demonstrate their plowing ability on ...

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 ...

SISTERS, Ore. - If the thought of a farmer patiently working his field behind a plow and horses floods you with pangs of nostalgia, take heart. It's on the rebound. Horses haven't run the tractors out ...

SCOTTS, MI – Despite the mammoth size of two Belgium Draft horse, Duane Westrate, following closely behind the bouncing tails, easily directs their movement with one hand. “Gee,” Westrate calls out to ...

LEWISTOWN VALLEY – The rich history of agriculture in Schuylkill County was celebrated Saturday in the Lewistown Valley. Plow Day 2021 brought young and old alike to the Felty Farm along Catawissa ...

Scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute are testing a carbon coating that would harden modern plowshares. Seems trivial, but with world food supplies just a few years away from crisis and arable land ...

Jesse Stubs plowing, prepares soil to plant corn on newly-terraced land in Flint River Farms, Georgia, in May 1939. (Marion Post Wolcott/Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division) Since the ...