Due to the high cost of investment in farm machinery, an ever-increasing number of farm operators are hiring other farm ...

Due to the high cost of investment in farm machinery, an ever-increasing number of farm operators are hiring other people to provide some or all of their machinery resources for their farm operation.

Many of us are willing to do some additional custom work as part of our operation in order to spread equipment cost over more acres. It doesn’t seem that difficult to custom plant or harvest some ...

Due to the high cost of investment in farm machinery, an ever-increasing number of farmers are hiring other people to provide some or all of their machinery resources for their farm operation. This is ...

Due to the high costs, an ever-increasing number of farm operators are hiring out the machinery resources needed for their farm operations. This is especially true with new and younger farm operators, ...

Custom farming can provide an additional source of income for those with machinery and experience, or alleviate a farmer of a particular task that they do not wish to do on their own. Whether the ...

When it’s harvest time in Montana, T&S Swathing gets right to the fields. In fact, the brother and sister team, Tyler and Shelbi Frieling, immerse themselves in round-the-clock, no-stopping work, ...

Most custom rates have increased 10 to 20 percent from the previous survey conducted in 2007. Rates for custom combining, aerial pesticide application and snow removal were exceptions, rising about 25 ...

Today’s downturn in farming is different than the crisis of the 1980s, but, farmers who survived the downturn from more than 30 years ago learned best practices that are applicable to today’s ...

HENDRICKS, Minn. — South African workers have helped grow the Olsen Custom Farming into a custom combining powerhouse. Chad Olsen, 51, runs the company with his wife, Pam, from a tree-lined farmstead ...

SHEFFIELD, Ill. — A Bureau County agriculture business is taking precision agriculture to the skies. Two years ago, Gripp Custom Farming Corp. started exploring using drones as a large-scale method ...