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 ...

“I’m a farmer,” he said, buzzing his motorcycle between freshly plowed fields on a recent afternoon. “Here, that’s an embarrassment.” In some parts of the world, farmers are viewed with respect and ...

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 ...

Wheat has been a staple crop for thousands of years and is of enormous economic importance worldwide. However, many traits that are important for wheat production and quality would benefit from the ...

AGOTIME BEH, Ghana — After he graduated from university, Vozbeth Kofi Azumah was reluctant to tell anyone — even his mother — what he planned to do for a living. “I’m a farmer,” he said, buzzing his ...

A digital smart brooder from Arimifu Technologies, the machine gives real time SMS updates, monitoring of temperature and humidity. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard] Stakeholders in the East African ...

THE Hatzenbichler grass/crop harrow has several uses: it can be used for weed control, soil loosening and aeration in vegetable, corn and beet crops. It can be used for levelling poached fields after ...

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 ...

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 ...