After years of drought on my family's Texas farm, this year's forage sorghum harvest was one we could all be proud of.

Joan Hinton, a US citizen and former physicist on the Manhattan Project, lives on the Beijing Agricultural Machinery Experiment Station she set up with her late husband in 1980. Joan has lived in ...

Well, things on the farm haven’t slowed down a bit since I last wrote. Silage chopping continues at a breakneck pace. The chopper hardly has time to cool down at night before my husband, Robb, is ...

DECORAH, Iowa --- Silage choppers have been chewing up and spitting out corn for about a month in Northeast Iowa with mixed results. Government estimates show corn yields for grain will be drastically ...

In early September, dairy farmers begin harvesting corn silage to store as feed for their cows and young stock. Corn silage is made by chopping the entire corn plant into small pieces and allowing it ...

Mychal Wilmes shares his memories of a too-wet corn silage harvest in 1968, an early frost a few years later that reduced soybean yields, and a devastating blow when his father died one September.

“Local emergency response officials report that a rural Winfred man was seriously injured late Thursday afternoon in a farming accident. The patient had a leg severed below the knee by a corn silage ...

In September the Earth rounds an elongated curve in space and the weather begins its languorous glide into the long slog of winter. September suffers from multiple personality disorder, with summery ...

A new wave of precision chop forage harvesters could reinvigorate the market for trailed models, even now that most established manufacturers have abandoned production of their designs. For many ...