Watering hundreds of apple and peach trees, weeding gardens chock full of eggplant and okra, and mowing 11 acres of land is tall order for any farmer. Just imagine doing all that at age 74. As the ...

LUCENA City, Quezon Province—Crow’s feet on many faces of people in the recent celebration of the Niyogyugan Festival here reveal not only the deep tradition of farming but also unearth a conundrum ...

Pete Boecker works hard farming land that isn`t his, making money that he gives away. Using seven antique tractors along with an ancient pull-type combine and a range of other old farm machinery, he ...

Tilling is as synonymous with farming and gardening as compost and muddy boots. It’s used to eliminate weeds and break up hard soil so that tender seedlings may grow. So, it may come as a surprise ...

Ploughing and tilling on hilly slopes is causing farm soils to thin and threatens future crop yields, a new study published in Nature Food finds. Ploughing and tilling on hilly slopes is causing farm ...

The family farmer in the age of industrial farming, the yoga of sex, cyberhacking and biometrics, and the future of robotic farming. “A key component of the practice is not tilling the soil. Untilled ...

Lisa Blazure, soil health coordinator with Stroud Water Research Center, points out night crawler tunnels in the clay soil beneath Penn England Farm’s cornfield topsoil. Night crawlers are essential ...