Seeding rates that are too high can waste input dollars and stress plants under dry or nutrient-limited conditions. Rates ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the intersection of technology, farming and food. He started researching rural agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa, and that ...

Maizex Seeds, the seed division of Sollio Agriculture, announces the groundbreaking of a major $8.8 million investment in a ...