A showcase of plowing skills will be on full display when competitors make their way to Howell Living History Farm this weekend. This will be the 42nd year for the annual Howell Farm Plowing Match ...

Congressional Democrats came to power in November on a platform of fiscal responsibility. An important test of their seriousness comes this spring as Capitol Hill considers reauthorizing the farm bill ...

Plowing contests have been a popular feature of agricultural life in Ontario for well over a century. The gatherings put key skills on display,... Aug 24, 2012 — Plowing contests have been a popular ...

Gene Gruber has to stop and think when asked how many U.S. plowing championships have been won by members of his family, a three-generation dynasty. "Seventeen. It's been 17," he says after a few ...

SISTERS, Ore. - If the thought of a farmer patiently working his field behind a plow and horses floods you with pangs of nostalgia, take heart. It's on the rebound. Horses haven't run the tractors out ...

Soybeans were nothing more than a minor forage crop in the 1940s. It didn’t take long for soybean growing and processing to become a multi-billion-dollar industry. Meanwhile, alfalfa’s importance has ...

The Bucher & Gibbs plow discovered on farmland in Pennsylvania has found a home. "I donated it to a local group that Allen Boyd belongs," said Ken Recker of Everett, Pennsylvania, who discovered the ...