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Wisconsin ranks third in the nation in sweet corn production. And from the farm to the Wisconsin State Fair, the crop has ...
Before farming became mechanized, picking corn by hand and pitching ears into a horse-drawn wagon was how harvesting was done. In the late 19th century, local contests were held to determine the ...
In a cornfield just before dawn, the morning chill surrenders to the light. The stillness of the night gives way to chirping ...
LAKE ARTHUR, N.M. – A handful of farm laborers are busy at work on a warm day in mid-November, helping harvest 140 acres of Cecil Conklin's red chili crop. But ...
Harvesting corn in a $300,000, eight-row combine is a solitary, highly mechanized business. Such was not always the case. Up through the late 1930s, most corn was picked not by machine, but by hand.
Indiana farmers typically harvest corn at 15 percent to 20 percent moisture content that's after the corn has had time to dry from 30 percent moisture at maturity, Vyn said. Under normal conditions, ...
a, Traditional labor-intensive (left) and the next-generation mechanized (right) production of F1 hybrid seeds are compared. In a traditional hybrid seed production process, the male sterile line ...
During the conference, participants visited a digital agriculture demonstration base in Jinan, where an AI-powered platform ...
U.S. farmers are harvesting two of the largest corn and soybean crops in history at the fastest pace in years, straining their physical capabilities and their grain storage capacity.