A tractor on the O'Connor Family Farm in Blooming Prairie sits under the northern lights. Patrick O'Connor says he was unable to use his tractor after the solar storm responsible for the northern ...

Terry Griffin has been talking about how weather in space could impact agriculture technology for years. And on May 10, 2024, a solar storm not only illuminated the sky with stunning aurora borealis — ...

It was a clear, sunny day as Nick Nemec’s New Holland tractor was chugging across his field with a planter in tow. It was the South Dakota farmer’s first real opportunity to get his corn in the ground ...

MOULTRIE, Ga. -- Darrell Williams spent part of his childhood behind a mule, plowing the fields on his family's tobacco farm. "It was hot," he said. "I had to follow that plow and that mule. There was ...

While it's important for farmers to have creature comforts on the job it's also important for dairy cows to have people comforts, said Ed Switzer, 71, who was wearing a baseball cap that read, "Got ...

ROYAL OAKS, Calif. (KSBW/CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) — A GPS-enabled tractor led deputies to thieves. Authorities in Northern California have arrested two men accused of stealing a $25,000 tractor from a ...

Massive solar storms this year have meant that people across America have been able to see the Aurora Borealis like never before. The massive jets of charged particles that have been emitted by the ...

Between 8.30pm on May 8 and 5am on May 9, a John Deere Star Fire GPS receiver was stolen from a tractor while it was stored in a covered barn. A police spokesperson said: “If you have witnessed any ...

ELGIN — A tractor that drove itself was the star of last week’s Zumbro Watershed Partnership field day. It was one of many new devices that reflect the rapid advance of technology-based precision ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A recent upgrade of the United States' global positioning system (GPS) will do little to assist farmers in their fields, says a Purdue University expert. Mark Morgan, assistant ...

The new GPS900 RTK GPS system from Leica-Geosystems is a complete base and rover system conveniently packaged in a single, "ruggedized" case. The system, says Leica, provides a complete, low-cost, ...