Swathing or windrowing of wheat, barley and oats were, at one time, the default operations that signaled the beginning of harvest. The primary purpose of swathing is to speed up and even out the dry ...

Jared Goplen, a farmer and University of Minnesota Extension educator on crops and forage, is seeing more interest in small grains in traditional corn and soybean country for a few reasons: soil ...

a, Traditional labor-intensive (left) and the next-generation mechanized (right) production of F1 hybrid seeds are compared. In a traditional hybrid seed production process, the male sterile line ...