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 ...

Replacing a seed plate on the Earthway planter is no sweat. Driving country roads in March or maybe April, you're likely to see a few of these in use for family vegetable gardens. The Stand 'n Plant ...

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 ...

Planting crops in very huge tracts of land with hand hoe can be a tedious activity that could go on for days, increasing the cost of labour for a farmer. In the normal planting system here in Uganda ...

But problems at planting time set the stage for an entire season’s worth of trouble. Many, if not most, planting problems result from failing to adjust practices and equipment to fit soil and weather ...

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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 ...