For several years, Missy Bauer, Farm Journal Field Agronomist, has been in the market for a planter — specifically a corn planter she could call her own to use in plots. She focused her search ...

That requires starting with a picket-fence stand with photocopied plants, achieved by adjusting your planter as conditions change from field to field and within fields, says Farm Journal Field ...

Planters equipped with gauge wheels delivering downforce pressure can help push seed through uneven ground littered with tough corn stubble. “If you start to see that row unit bounce around ...

Not sure about the rest of you, but this is the most frustrating off season ever. All this waiting and hoping and nothing seems to be happening. It’d be easy to slide down the slippery slope to ...