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 ...

The shift towards precision agriculture is promising a major boon for farmers and their businesses. Now self-driving tractors are adding to this smart farm effort, allowing farmers to find even more ...

Our host star goes through cycles of activity, and there are some periods of intense solar storms. These solar storms can ...

MOULTRIE, Ga. (AP) - 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 ...

SAN RAFAEL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--FarmX Autonomy, developer of groundbreaking vision-based vehicle autonomy, announces significant advancements in the deployment of OrchardPilot, its ...

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 — ...

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 ...

The earliest article about GPS and agriculture that I found in my collection of this magazine(*) is from the July/August 1992 issue: “Using GPS in Agricultural Remote Sensing,” by Eileen M. Perry of ...

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 ...

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 ...