Returned to the family after three-quarters of a century Delbert Miller learned that his wife’s great-grandfather had built a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Potato kit specialist Standen Engineering has launched its new SR200 planter, which has a clever cup design that allows it to cope with longer and larger potato seed. Ely-based Standen has a history ...

A new sowing unit, designed to handle precision planting of large-seeded crops such as maize, beans and peas, should bring ...

Ranked third in the world, Tanzania is Africa's largest exporter of sesame seeds. The traditional way of planting these seeds is slow and arduous work, but one man is changing that. Entrepreneur ...