SABINA, Ohio (AP) — It was just after dark as Ross Woodruff hopped into a truck to haul soybean seeds out to his brother, Mark, whose planter had run out. It was the first day they could plant after ...

It’s officially spring and many growers are gearing up to begin planting. But as most of the U.S. isn’t quite ready to put seed in the ground, one state is already off to the races. According to ...

More than 10,000 plants were made available to an estimated 1,000 visitors to Saturday’s annual Spring Plant Sale and Farm Festival at Liberty Prairie in Grayslake. “It’s just been my tradition,” said ...

YORK COUNTY, Pa. — It has been exactly one week since the start of spring, when nature starts coming back to life. With the start of the season, many people may be thinking about planting their own ...

It’s time to prepare your planting equipment for the upcoming spring planting season by working through a thorough repair and maintenance checklist this winter. Attending to these details isn’t mere ...

Many areas of the upper Midwest are seeing near ideal conditions for the start of spring planting. Farm management analyst Kent Thiesse breaks down what ideal conditions look like. Some have already ...

It’s a Friday at 4 p.m. Birds are chirping and cows are mooing. The trees sway in the breeze as bees bumble about. Students toil away in dirt beds, working over a vast array of herbs, flowers, ...

Like the start of a big NASCAR race or the beginning of a Championship game, many farmers in southern Minnesota and Iowa began full-scale field work during the week of April 13-19. Farm operators in ...

Near-record heat and an early start to the planting season have moved Minnesota farmers along well ahead of the state’s five-year average. The state’s weekly crop progress report, as of Sunday, showed ...