Need a gift for the grower, child or farmer-customer in your life? Two companies have thought of a product that caters to the farm kid in all of us. Aerial Rug and Boundri are using satellite imagery ...

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

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 ...

FARGO, N.D. - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's North Dakota Agricultural Statistics Service, Fargo, in cooperation with the North Dakota State University Extension Service, conducted a survey of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Farmers who depend on custom work or provide custom services can review rates charged by others across the state in the latest Iowa Farm Custom Rate Survey. The 2024 report was published in the March ...

Iowa State University Extension and Outreach has released the data from their 2024 Custom Farm Rate Survey, which provides average pricing for common agricultural services such as tillage, spraying ...

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, ...

JANESVILLE, Wis. — Whether it’s managing Prairie Woods Golf Course or growing corn and soybeans at his farm east of Janesville, Bob Dorr likes to keep his income diversified. So doing some custom farm ...