April 15 was an unusually warm spring day in Belle Plaine. Jim Glisczinski's worn farm boots compressed the soft, freshly unfrozen ground as he walked toward his new John Deere planter. The complex ...

When I tell people I meet in big cities that I’m from a town of 700 people, the sort of place where everyone is cousins, I’m often met with a sympathetic wince. Most people presume I had a difficult ...

Life on a farm follows its own rhythm. In this video, Ken Shappert spends a day on a Tennessee farm surrounded by animals, equipment, and the realities of rural living. One type of drinking water ...

Join Mark from Self Sufficient Me as he explores Hosanna Farmstay near Murwillumbah, NSW, Australia. Discover first-hand what ...

LARNED, Kansas — Tom Giessel vividly remembers growing up in the 1960s as a Kansas farm kid on the High Plains. In his memories, this place that some refer to as “ the middle of nowhere ” was teeming ...

Farm equipment such as tractors, combines, grain carts and self-propelled sprayers have become larger and heavier in recent years, and concern about soil compaction and its impacts on crop yields has ...