Planter maintenance experts encourage due diligence when inspecting and calibrating the seed metering units. It’s important to have those components locked in to begin with. The more acres the planter ...

WESTERN Australian agricultural consultant and no-till expert Bill Crabtree said the precision seed placement capabilities of the Seed Hawk planter made the machine a "class act" among sowing ...

Planting lettuce seedlings in the field. Photo by Lominda Afedraru. Though conditions in UK and Uganda are very different. Large scale commercial farming is faced with a similar challenge: How to ...

An inventive Norfolk farmer has solved a machinery quandary by designing his own home-built precision seed planter – made using 3D-printed plastic parts. Many farmers are inherent tinkerers and ...

Developed and released by US seeding and cultivation specialists Great Plains Manufacturing in 2012, the planters will be arriving in Australia over the next 12 months in widths up to 18 metres. PFG ...

Every farmer needs machines that make work easier, which include chaff-cutters, seeders, planters, balers, rippers and tractors. For the small farmer, the major challenge when it comes to acquiring ...

Some growers have opted for alternative crops, such as chickpeas, that help with nitrogen fixation and have the ability to emerge from 12cm down or more. Now, however, a new home-grown invention ...