AMES, Iowa — Three Nebraska farmer-inventors have developed equipment to harvest corn cobs and other biomass that will be sought for cellulosic ethanol production. The inventions were described at ...

The dust created from pulverizing dry stalks of corn, 16 rows at a time, was enough to bind the gears on my drone camera gimbal when I flew the craft too low and close to the combine as farmer Chris ...

Three Amish men, sitting in a small office at the Gordonville Fire Company, hold separate conversations with three Plain Sect farmers. Sheets and sheets of white paper -- each covered with names and ...

SCHALLER, Iowa -- Perched 10 feet off the ground in an enclosed cab, LaRae Mauser carefully steered the green John Deere combine toward the golden rows of corn plants. Holding the wheel with one hand, ...

GARFIELD, Minn. — Like many Minnesota farmers this year, Adam Johnson has been bouncing back and forth between harvesting soybeans and harvesting corn. “We’d probably just take beans until they were ...