Most custom rates have increased 10 to 20 percent from the previous survey conducted in 2007. Rates for custom combining, aerial pesticide application and snow removal were exceptions, rising about 25 ...

Due to the high cost of investment in farm machinery, an ever-increasing number of farmers are hiring other people to provide some or all of their machinery resources for their farm operation. This is ...

Need a gift for the grower, child or farmer-customer in your life? Two companies have thought of a product that caters to the farm kid in all of us. Aerial Rug and Boundri are using satellite imagery ...

HENDRICKS, Minn. — South African workers have helped grow the Olsen Custom Farming into a custom combining powerhouse. Chad Olsen, 51, runs the company with his wife, Pam, from a tree-lined farmstead ...

Many farmers do not choose or cannot afford to own all of the machinery they need in their farming operations. Some of the reasons for this can be financial, limited labor, small size of the farm or ...